• Freelance Friday 026 – Oct 5 2018

    Freelance Friday 026 – Oct 5 2018

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    This week has been mostly about getting my office setup after moving over the weekend. What I can say is, that my main desk is setup and that new fibre internet speeds of 300/300 make uploading YouTube videos and podcasts so much faster. Other than that, the boxes are slowly evacuating the office space and…

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  • How I do WordPress development from my iPad

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    You can read the whole post over on The Sweet Setup but here are the pieces. Digital Ocean Vim Coda for iOS Ergo Webtools Also see my iPad desk setup for tips on how I make this easy on the body.

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  • Other things don’t bring us Happiness

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    I think that’s the biggest problem with happiness. Why do we keep associating happiness with external things like career, love, and money? This from Darius Foroux. His main point is that we shouldn’t rely on external things to make us happy. They will let us down.

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  • Personal Branding or “Business” Branding?

    Personal Branding or “Business” Branding?

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    I had a question come in and it went: Should I brand myself as me, or should I get a company name that’s really just me? I’ve done both actually. My coaching is under my own name and my WordPress Membership Development Business is under SFNdesign. Watch or listen to today’s episode as I go…

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  • On devices to relieve anxiety

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    So a weighted blanket it is. “We’re not understanding how to deal with mental health. Instead, we’re throwing products at it,” says Beautiful Voyager’s Arthur. “It’s very American.” This was an interesting piece on the rise of spinners and blankets to help reduce stress and anxiety. While I don’t have a specific device to fidget…

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  • Audiobook or Paper or eReader?

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    That’s the topic tackled in this post from Time. I’m an eReader person for much of my reading, but I use a physical notebook to take notes…so I’m sort of bridging the gap, at least that’s what I tell myself. I certainly feel that I can’t physically orient myself in the content on an eReader…

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  • Justin Jackson on Supporting the Work

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    While the whole article isn’t about supporting the work of other creatives you like, that’s the part that stuck out to me in this excellent post by Justin Jackson. “Supporting the work” is what Paul Jarvis wants to enable on Pico; a platform where readers pay writers monthly. “Supporting the work” is why I buy…

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  • If you’ve ever wanted to do an SEO Audit

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    SEO seems like a black art to me, but with an audit and then some optimization of your site you can start bringing in the clients you want organically. My friend John gives us a walk through of the SEO audit part today. You still need to do some optimization, but this is part of…

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  • Seth Godin on The Benefit of the Doubt

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    Great post on how to treat customers from Seth Godin. We need to remember this as we treat our customers with respect or not. I had a project go months over this year. When the client asked about it, I told them the truth. I fell in love with another part of my business and…

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  • Grammarly and iOS is a Big Bag of Suck

    Grammarly and iOS is a Big Bag of Suck

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    I’ve written about my writing workflow a number of times and it keeps changing a bit here and there. One of the key components in the past was Grammarly. I freely admit, that my grammar and punctuation is pretty bad. I try to keep improving it but some days are better than others and this…

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