Category: Business
What is the most in demand freelance skill that will remain in demand?
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So you’re looking at freelancing and want to know what the most in demand freelance skill is. I get it. You want to do something that people will find valuable and continue to find valuable. Something that will last for years so you can become a specialist and charge well. PHP is quite popular and…
If You Want Broken Relationships Focus on Weaknesses
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My wife is amazing. She keeps our house running. She motivates me. She’ll sit down on a Sunday night and time block my week so that I can get a decent amount of work time in, and then she’ll handle the kids all week without complaint. But she’s not perfect. She has a pile, an…
What Good Employee Feedback Looks Like
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Most businesses do employee feedback in the form of a yearly review. It’s what they’ve heard someone else does and by making it yearly, they only have Schedule time for it once a year. But there are a few issues with that. First, you’re showing that you don’t value it if you’re thinking trends towards…
Clients are an Awesome Constraint
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Deep down, we all harbor a fantasy: We do creative work, throw it in the mail — someone else sends us a contract and doesn’t bother us again. No one gets to tell us what do to; our art remains pure and untouched. – Perennial Seller That is the dream of most developers, isn’t it?…
The Easy Way is A Lie, Do the Hard Work
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There are a lot of things to focus on when you run a business. It doesn’t matter when the workday ends; there is always something that could be done. You could refine your marketing funnel. Reply to one more email. Reach out to a prospect. Tweak your site. Knowing this, it’s so easy to get…
When You Stop Trying, Progress Plummets to 0
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Any endeavour worth doing is hard. What looks effortless from the outside is the result of thousands of hours of previous practice. I can write 3000 words in 90 minutes because I have published more than 200k words in the last 12 months. I’ve published something like that every year for five years. It’s only…
Consistent NOT Rigid
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There is a difference between consistency and rigidity. Consistency is sticking with your schedule for optimal work. It’s only taking calls one day a week so that you can get stuff done. Rigidity is not watching one of the kids for an hour while your spouse takes the others to the doctor because “it’s my…
Client’s Grow Too
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Talent Magnets encourage people to grow and leave. They write letters of recommendation and they help people find their next stage to perform on. And when people leave their group, they celebrate their departures and shout their success to everyone. – Multipliers The client you have today will not be your client forever. We always…
Your Team is NOT Comprised of Adult Sized Children
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People are considered adults in their private lives, at the bank, at their children’s schools, with family and among friends — so why are they suddenly treated like adolescents at work? Why can’t workers be involved in choosing their own leaders? Why can’t they speak up — challenge, question, share information openly? – The Seven…
If you don’t have these 3 hours, your business is broken
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Your business is broken if you don’t have at least 3 hours a week set aside for personal improvement. That’s reading books about business or learning some new design technique or some new code. If you tell me that at some point in the future you’ll have the time. You’re lying. The best predictor of…
