Category: Business
What I Want in Invoicing – yup it’s a pipe dream
by
I’ve been looking at freelance invoicing and billing software again after about three years with 17Hats. I’ll be digging into options for the next number of weeks seeing if I can find exactly what I want. Of course, that means first I need to define what I want. Solve a problem I’ve said a few…
Can I niche my freelance business around a technology
by
Reader Stephen asked: I’ve been reading a lot about finding you niche (I have a copy of your book) and positioning, and a lot of what I’ve read seems to suggest working within an industry sector, but I don’t have a industry I like working in. I’ve built web apps for many different types of…
You’re Building People not Robots
by
Countless numbers of leaders gain much of their education from on-the-job training, where they watch and mimic the behaviors of others. This has its merits, but the serious downside is that the leaders in the making aren’t necessarily learning how their mentoring leader thinks. – Paid To Think When I was landscaping the one issue,…
On Being Alone
by
We need to be alone because life among other people unfolds too quickly. The pace is relentless: the jokes, the insights, the excitements. There can sometimes be enough in five minutes of social life to take up an hour of analysis. – The Need to Be Alone How much thinking time do you have in…
Security in Mediocrity as a WordPress Theme Builder
by
Finding security in mediocrity is an exhausting process. You can only work so many hours, fret only so much. Being a slightly better typist or a slightly faster coder is insufficient. You’re always looking over your shoulder, always trying to be a little less mediocre than the guy next to you. It wears you out.…
Save Yourself The Pain Just Don’t Do Anything
by
You can save yourself the pain of failing by…Never. Doing. Anything. – From Frustrated To Frickin Awesome Failure sucks. In the middle of 2017, I failed huge as a parent. My oldest kid was acting her age, and I lost it. I yelled and scared her. I had little control over how I reacted. In…
An awesome business is the product of hard work and sweat
by
The difference between a great work and an idea for a great work is all the sweat, time, effort, and agony that go into engaging that idea and turning it into something real. The difference is not trivial. If great work were easy to produce, a lot more people would do it. – Perennial Seller…
Getting Unstuck: The Pieces You Need to Make Your Freelance Business Successful
by
When my oldest daughter started to read on her own it took so much concentration. Every single word involved 120% of her attention. She’d start to sound out a word, get close and guess and then ask me because it wasn’t quite right. I’d tell her what word she was searching for and she’d go…
Do you view opportunities as a child or as an adult?
by
Children expect opportunities to be handed to them; maturity is understanding you have to go out and make them. – Perennial Seller I’ve said before that if you’re struggling with contractors it’s probably your fault. That good consultants take control. To stop trying to blame your screw up on something the client did. I’ve told…
What Makes You Ready for a 5-Figure Freelance Client?
by
If he waits for a job to be good enough to deserve his best shot, it’s unlikely that he’ll ever have that job – Linchpin This is Seth Godin talking about a grocery store clerk he calls Steve. Steve shows up and does the job, but phones it in. If Steve is waiting for a…
