• You are Gandalf, Start acting like it

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    What you do is freaking magic, and magic has value. Don’t short change yourself just because you do it every day.

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  • Art of Value is 1000% worth your time

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    You ever find a great new resource that blows your mind with every piece of content you get? You know one that makes you really think about how you’re running your business. How your pricing your projects. The weight you put towards project management as the thing that really makes a project awesome. It’s all…

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  • Throw Hope out the window – Start 2015 with a plan

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    Today I’m excited to offer you the opportunity to work with me personally to ensure you start your 2015 off right. Last week I talked about the three areas you’ve got to get right when you’re starting your business. These are also the three areas MOST freelancers or small teams get it wrong. You’re stuck…

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  • Vetting clients with your first email

    Vetting clients with your first email

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    We all get a lot of email don’t we, it’s hard to keep up with. It’s hard to keep up with the new client requests if you’re doing your marketing right unless you take some steps to automate it. I have most of the emails I send to clients automated in templates because it lets…

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  • Key Step 4 in Value Based Pricing

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    Today we’ll talk about the 4th key step in effective value based pricing, that’s being bold. If you want to dive in to the other 3 steps then get on my mailing list to get early access to my upcoming course on the 3 Keys to running a happy profitable business in 2015.

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  • When I DO take that client call

    When I DO take that client call

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    Last week I wrote a post about how I don’t take cold calls from clients. In the comments, Carla said that she just doesn’t interact with clients on the phone much at all. I hear that since getting on the phone requires a schedule which doesn’t always interact well with real life. I often means…

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  • September Reading

    September Reading

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    This September was a lot of fiction and a bit of self-improvement/interesting f reading. As always, jump to the bottoms for links to my other monthly reading posts. Blink By the well known Malcolm Gladwell, Blink is about our powers of rapid cognition, or how we make snap judgments. This is my second read and…

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  • Where do you start when you run a business

    Where do you start when you run a business

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    When you’re starting to run a business there is so much to learn. You’re no longer just designing or building, you’re a business owner that needs to manage projects and onboard clients and figure out a marketing plan. You’ve probably also got a few product ideas around that could generate recurring income for you and…

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  • What do I think of Adobe Muse now?

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    Old post on Adobe Muse.

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  • Don’t take that phone call with the client

    Don’t take that phone call with the client

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    Do you answer your phone? Do you spend an hour on the phone with a random caller? I don’t because I have a client onboarding process and I don’t like wasting time. Just today Today I got an email that went something like this. I’m looking for someone to setup an eCommerce site on WordPress…

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