Category: Links of Interest
Facebook isn’t friendship
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Losing friends because you’re not on Facebook is only a valid concern to the extent that your ‘friends on Facebook’ are not really friends at all. From the great James Shelley. I do have a Facebook profile but the only thing I use it for is to interact with two groups. One is a book…
How Many Hours Does a Freelancer Bill In A Day?
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I recently had someone reach out to find out what my daily hours looked like. Here were the questions specifically. How many billable hours do you aim for in a day? How many hours of exercise per day? How do you handle disruptions to your schedule? (e.g. do you plan for some leeway in your…
Producing a winning proposal
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The subject of my latest piece at Liquid Web is why you might not be able to talk to the buyer of a project. Do you know the difference between tactics and strategy? Do you know which one the buyer will want to talk about with a good consultant? A buyer that takes you seriously…
Do I need to take a class to get started freelancing?
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This is based off an answer I gave on Quora. Figure out what you’re going to do. what are you good at now? what will people pay for? what is the target market you’re looking at? Where will you offer your services? – is Upwork worth it? – what about testing your ideas on Fivver…
Getting Past the Gatekeeper So You Can Have a Winning Proposal
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Over on the Liquid Web blog I wrote about some tactics you can use to woo the buyer on a project. In my last post I talked about the importance of talking to the buyer for your project. I introduced the idea of the gatekeeper there. To recap, the gatekeeper is anyone that doesn’t have…
Chris Lema on serving your inbox
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Is your inbox your boss? While I may check email at some point any day of the week the only day I put effort in to clearing up what’s in it is Friday. See Friday I’m between calls so there isn’t really much I can do once I start on the call and meeting bandwagon.…
Cal Newport on Open Offices
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Newport cites a new study on open office plans, interruption and face-to-face interactions. The short version is that open offices promote less face-to-face interaction, more IM/Slack and more email. So we have more digital distraction and less of the thing that the office was supposed to promote. This quote sums up my feelings on the…
You’re Failing Because You’re Doing Nothing
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Without action, knowledge is often meaningless. As Aristotle put it, to be excellent we cannot simply think or feel excellent, we must act excellently. Yet the action required to follow through on what we know is often the hardest part. That’s why even doctors know better than anyone the importance of exercise and diet, 44…
Rest is Required if You Want to Excel
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I was reminded of this fact this week. Here you can see where I was. I sat there for a few hours and read then sent some emails and did some writing on my phone. I broke out my journal and thought about my business without listening to any music unless it was provided by…
I’m talking about time blocking on The Productivity Show
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You can catch me today talking about time blocking on The Productivity Show. We talk about: Why I don’t think you can make our find time The 4 Steps I use to define an ideal week Mapping an ideal week to a real week Why you should double your time estimates Go listen.
