On working overtime and freelance
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Most of the time the reason you’re pulling and all-nighter is that you didn’t plan well in the first place. You said YES when you should have said NO to the project.
This should be your only goal in hard client conversations
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Do you ever have to talk to a client about budget or the features they want to ‘throw in’ to a project? How about talking to a client that’s clearly not happy with your work and has requested a call? It sucks and it’s stressful usually, until you make one crucial change in your goal…
I don’t want to be satisfied
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There are a few things I don’t want to be in life. I don’t want to be satisfied and I don’t want to be average or normal. Normal is broken. Normal is having credit card debt and student loans. A ’normal’ freelancer is constantly searching for the next client. Actually, scratch that. They’re not searching…
Even if you’re busy, don’t skip planning
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There was a time 2 years ago when I said I did GTD, but that wasn’t entirely true at the time. While I used OmniFocus as a task manager, I wasn’t fully committed to GTD because I skipped the most crucial part. The weekly review. But I’m busy The thing is, I was busy and a…
You failed if the client asks for an update
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I’ve got a bold statement for you: If you get an email from a client asking for a status update you already failed at the project. Yes, you read that right: If your client asks for a status update you failed on the project. Asking for a status update means your client didn’t have any…
We will market to our customers
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We will market for our clients and give away our secrets even if your competition uses them. A rising tide raises all boats.
What hardware runs my business?
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A while ago I wrote about all my software tools but I didn’t really cover hardware at all. Well, enough people asked, so that’s the topic of today’s post. Here is a list of my crucial hardware tools that help me do my job. 13” MacBook Air This is easily the best computer I’ve ever…
Success Takes Sticking Power
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I’ve written before about the importance of specializing in your business. In short, if you’re tired of getting undercut on price and not being able to charge the rates you think you’re worth, the solution to your problem likely comes back to specializing — or rather, your lack of a speciality. Thicken Josh Strebel, CEO of Page.ly,…
Is your task list more like a wish list?
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Pretty much all of us create some sort of daily list for the tasks we need to do. I personally prefer to use Todoist as my overall task management application but there are plenty of options that work just as well, so I urge you to use whatever works for you. The thing is, if…
CoSchedule Your Editorial Calendar
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A while ago I wrote about how I use Coschedule, Revive Old Post, and Buffer to help me tell people about what I write. At the time I didn’t think that any of the tools necessarily justified a separate dedicated post. However, given some of the new features that have been added to CoSchedule, I…
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