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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
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10 Ways to Stand Out from the Crowd as a WordPress Developer
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We get to work in an amazing industry. We get to work with a number of clients from small businesses where we help make dreams come true, to large corporations on huge projects. But this industry depth also means that it can be hard to stand out as a freelancer or an agency. In fact,
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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.
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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
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Freelance Friday 013 – July 06 2018
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It’s my first “full” week back after vacation and while many of my American readers had a celebration on July 4th, up in Canadaland we celebrated on July 1st for Canada Day. So I still had a day off this week. The big thing I’ve pushed forward this week was my next book, tentatively called
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What Makes a Team Dysfunctional?
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We’ve all seen teams that are terrible. Teams that fought and backstabbed. Teams where no one bought in to the vision of the company. Unfortunately, many of us have only seen these teams that are broken. We haven’t seen teams that have constructive arguments and then align around the decision. We haven’t seen teams that
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Should I Read It 022 – The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
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Today’s book is going to use a parable as a way to teach us how teams should work. Purchase The Five Dysfunctions of a Team on Amazon Written Look at The Five Dysfunctions of a Team This episode of Should I Read It is brought to you by The 8 Week Business Bootcamp. If you’re
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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
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Turning the Challenges In Your Business into an Action Plan
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So far as we’ve looked at goals we’ve talked about Why Yearly Goals are Terrible The Alternative I use for Goal Planning If You Haven’t Planned Where You’re Going, You’re Going to End up Sunk How to Identify The Real Challenges Your Business Has Let me be clear, if you haven’t planned where you’re going
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Freelance Friday 012 – June 29 2018
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As I’m working on my next book called Finding Focus, I have some questions for you dear reader. If you’ll please help me out and answer these 6 questions so I can make sure the book covers topics that are relevant to you. I spent most of this week away in Sechelt with my wife.
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