That time Drip didn’t offer me solutions to my problems
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Gather ’round, it’s story time. This is a story of woe and it may include some profanity, though it’s edited for the under aged among us. It’s the grand tragic tale of how it cost me $1250 to get started using Drip. It’s a cautionary tale for you, as you look at your client services.…
3 Reasons Coaching Isn’t Working for You
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Ever had a friend who was super smart, yet you could rarely ever understand them? I know I tend to be that person when I talk about computers. I have a friend who will smile deeply as I talk and then say: Dude all I’ve heard for the last 5 minutes is “I’m a big…
Career transitions with Carrie Dils
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Today Carrie and I talked a bunch about her career transitions. She moved from running her business in to working for Crowd Favorite back to running her own business and then mainly out of client work all with one goal in mind. Along the way she tells us the one mistake she wishes she could…
3 questions to ask when you see a shortcut to profits
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As as developer, I’ve written lots of code for clients, and many of those pieces of code can be reused for new projects. Where clients think we’re building something totally new, I can see how under the hood we’re building a new UI on a similar idea from a previous client. When I see these…
If you’re scared of charging more, you need to see these 3 questions
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The piece of advice I give to my coaching clients most often, and the one that remains unheeded, is that they need to charge more. Far too many of you are charging well below what you’re worth because you believe the wrong facts about your business and your own value. [Tweet “Are you basing your…
Moving to retainers with Mario Peshev
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Mario and I talk about how he moved his company DevriX to retainers from one off work. The hurdles he hit in selling it and the benefits of retainers for clients. Links WordPress Retainers and the Future of Recurring Revenue WordPress Development Retainers Digital Growth @no_fear_inc DevriX
The 10 Books I Read in 2016 You Should Read in 2017
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I think if you want to be a leader in your field you need to read. Nothings beats books for getting access to the best business thought leaders for a small financial investment. Because of that, I read around sixty books a year, with about forty-five of them being focused on business or personal improvement.…
How to turn leads into amazing clients
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The question I get asked most often by you fine people who run your own business is… How do I get more leads for my business? That’s a good question, but that’s not really what you want. If I send 10,000 unqualified leads to you but you convert none of them to clients, then those…
Matt Medeiros on Marketing and the WordPress industry ‘dip’
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Had a great conversation with Matt Medeiros. We talked about what it was like to move from small clients to larger clients and then maybe to a spot that he doesn’t want to be with even larger clients. Matt also talks about the ‘dip’ he sees in the WordPress world and what you may do…
The 7 questions you need to ask to write an effective case study
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Case studies are one of the most powerful things you can add to your site to really get prospects motivated to work with you. But few people utilize them. Even fewer have good ones, because writing good case studies can be hard. I did say ‘write,’ and while written case studies are good, I think…
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