Your problem is that you’re reading this
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This article is about writing fiction but there is a very specific point here that stuck out to me as a business owner and coder. Your problem is that, well, you’re reading a fucking list of writing tips instead of actually writing. We talked about this. That’s your issue, genius. – Matt Gemmell How much…
Big bad mighty ‘might’
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How many times has a client come to you with an IDEA but is afraid that someone else will steal it? Sometimes they are even afraid that you are going to steal it. How about yourself how many ideas do you have that you are afraid to talk about because someone might steal it? The…
Juggling Business
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When you learn to juggle you start with 1 ball and get comfortable with it. Then you add a 2nd and then a 3rd… I dabbled with juggling in my teens but never got good at using 2 balls even. I’ve been thinking about juggling more and more lately as I think about my business.…
Sub-contracting and client communication
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I get ‘flown in’ for team augmentation on a fairly regular basis now. The team has something that’s outside of their regular abilities and it’s right in mine so we work together for a week or two. Out of that I’ve had a few experiences with communication with the clients. Setting the ground rules First…
Setting yourself up to be unproductive?
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This will not be the first article you’ve read about someone finding social media way to intrusive for daily life. All of us are on social media and most of us find it totally overwhelming at some point. When it hits that breaking point we try and take steps to turn it off. For a…
Confidence to Change Pricing Models
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I’ve had more than one person ask how I changed to a weekly pricing model. The eaisiest version is that I just didn’t give clients an option of anything else but I suppose there is a bit more. I was nervous I first wrote about weekly pricing quite a while ago. Read the article at…
PayPal now accepted and I was a hypocrite
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If you’ve already bought my book or heard me speak at WordCamp Vancouver then you know I’m against credit cards. They are not a great idea at all, at least not how they are typically used. Heck I even blogged about it already. But I was a hypocrite If you did purchase my book already…
When is an invoice #paidpaid
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Billing is one of the harder parts of freelancing. You’re done the work and waiting to get paid. Outside of simply not being paid (which has happened a few times and sucks huge) one of the biggest issues clients bring up is how you count when something is paid. Just last weekend (as I’m winding…
Don’t be an Idiot -> Launched
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WooCommerce…check! New Theme…check! Reticulating splines…check! (extra special coupon for the first one in the comments to name that reference) Well that’s it the book is launched, I even pulled an ‘all-nighter’ to get it done ironically. There are 2 packages: Book – $29 Book and Videos – $79 You can see excerpts of the interviews…
You launched it – throw a party
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I love working for myself. I get to decide my projects and my rates. I get to have a commute that is super short. I get to hang with my daughter over lunch. The downside is that I work by myself 99% of the time. That means that I don’t have a bunch of coworkers…
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