Are you writing for your ideal client?
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It’s entirely possible that your website simply sucks. As you can tell from the title of this post, today I’m challenging you to look at who you’re writing for on your blog. It could be that you’re writing for your peers, and if so, no client is going to read your blog because it’s not…
You Should Be Blogging
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I’m going to ask you a couple of questions right now and you’re going to pretend you didn’t read the title of this post, so you don’t already have the answers. Deal? What’s the one place where you control your content and what’s done with it? What’s the place that search engines can send your…
On Productivity Tools
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First off don’t think that some ‘new tool’ is going to solve the problem you’re having with productivity. You can use any tool poorly or you can keep doing the same old unproductive things in a new tool you did with an old tool. Second, don’t mistake productivity for effectiveness. We want to be effective,…
When was the last time you laughed at work?
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You’ve heard about my client vetting process before. One reason I’m so rigorous on my client vetting is that I want to have fun with my clients. If you aren’t having some fun, you might wonder what you are doing in your business life. Laughter and good humor are the canaries in the mine of…
Meh to Sexy Problems
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I just found a great podcast called The Distance, which is all about businesses that have been running for 25 years or more. Businesses you won’t hear about raising venture capital and ones that likely aren’t revolutionizing everything you’ve come to know and love. These are businesses you’re not going to read about on any…
Where You Focus is What Grows
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Hey, did you know the grass is always greener on the other side? If you’re employed, it’s better to be freelance. If you’re freelance, being employed means you don’t have to chase clients for payment or worry about where the next pay cheque (funny Canadians and their spelling eh?) will come from. Okay we know…
How to Keep Your Team Effective
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As your business grows you will, at some point, be faced with the decision to make a change from managing just yourself to managing a team. If that scares you stop the growth curve and be happy with running a solo business. For those that choose to move to a team structure, you no longer…
How you run your business shows your character
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Running a business tests your character in very hard ways. It deals with livelihoods and money which seems to bring out the worst in people. You’re going to get asked about competitors and a sure fire way to show your customer how poor your character is is to talk poorly about your competition. There are…
It Doesn’t Matter What You Like
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Recently, I was bidding on a project, in competition with a few other developers I know, and one of them won. According to the client the reason they didn’t go with me was my payment terms. For a 10-day project I wanted to get paid 50% up front and the rest after 10 business days.…
How I keep up with web technology
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The web moves fast. You learn one technology and guess what? Something better comes out. No longer is the thing you just learned the thing everyone is raving about. It’s this new thing you don’t know anymore. There is danger in changing things up all the time. That danger is that you never really become…
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