Category: Business
Working a Networking Event
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As much as I do like going out to meet ups and local events, I’m terrible at networking for my business. I suppose I should follow tips like this but it just doesn’t feel like me. By nature I’m not pushy, I figure that my work and clients will speak for themselves. I do good…
Again, Take a Break or Burnout
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Certainly not the first time I’ve mentioned the need to take a break and risking burnout but here is another note. I once knew a pro triathlete who I came to coach who decided to skip recovery weeks and press on regardless of how tired he was. He was never the same again. Overtraining took…
Getting Your Freelance Business to Succeed
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When looking at becoming a Freelancer (yes I dislike that term but it’s understood) you need to make sure that you have a marketable skill. Design, development, photography, writing, all translate easy to a marketable skill. Even if you have that skill there is something way more important to have or you’re not going to…
Learning To Write Well, Fast
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Obviously I’ve really stepped up the publishing schedule of the site. As with any blog the main struggle weekly is figuring out what exactly to write, and of course to make sure it’s not terrible. This week I came across (hat tip Freelancing Weekly) a vid with 8 tips for writing good content quickly. The…
Tools for Launching a Startup
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While the bulk of the [article][tools] is a list of apps and services to use for a business there is another take away. That is, don’t waste time on things that don’t matter. Yes you could design a site from scratch and build it, but you could also buy a [Themeforest][themef] WordPress template which will…
Twitter – Disrespecting It’s Users
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Monday of this week I got an email from Twitter with a digest of stuff. Once I realized what it was I deleted it. First, I never signed up for this email. Second, Twitter never told me this was starting and gave me the chance to opt out. This totally smacks of the crap Facebook…
Yes We Certainly are in a Bubble
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I came across 2 articles this week, one on the tech industry being in a [valuation bubble][val] and one on how [Draw Something is doing now][draw]. Remember a few weeks back when [Zynga bought OMGPOP][omg] for a stupid amount of money because it looked like Draw Something was the next big thing. Well it seems…
Content’s Race to the Bottom – It Doesn’t Really Want to be Free
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[Ben Brooks][bb] wrote a [fantastic article][bbart] about free content and the expectations that were set eons (at least in web terms) ago about content being free. I am already a [member][mem] of [Shawn Blanc’s][sb] site. I pay $3/month so he can write full time, and I’m happy to do it. Paying for his content at…
I’ve Had Crappy Managers
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Sometimes I think that working for myself contracting sucks, then I remember what it was like to be employed full-time and I remember that it sucked more. On top of sucking more I had a boss that I had to report to and there were more crappy ones than good ones. … people become what…