Launch Video
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It’s hard to put in typed words what you can say. Here is a video I recorded for the launch of “Don’t be an Idiot: Learn to run a viable business“. Sign up on the mailing list above to get updates, coupons, and a sneak peak at the content. WOOHOO BOOK LAUNCH!
I’m writing a book about Running a Viable Business
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Today the teasing is over and you can sign up to get notified of the new book I’m writing called “Don’t be an Idiot: Running a Viable Business”. The Why I’m writing the book because over the last year I’ve been talking with a bunch of small business owners. A constant theme has been that…
Queues and broken self-contracts
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How many queues of crap do you have in your life? These lists are things that you intend to do at some point. But really if it’s been sitting for a few weeks is it going to get done? I sit here looking at my Instapaper queue of 95 articles and I have no doubt…
Awesome landing page by Shawn Blanc for Delight is in the Details
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I’m just working through my landing page for my upcoming book on running a viable freelance business but after looking at Shawn’s page I wonder if I should go back to the drawing board and do some more design. It’s really beautiful.
The power of ‘no’ in bussiness
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I’ve started to read Getting Things Done again and within the first few pages I’ve been struck with one thought. People don’t say no enough Let’s look at a few of my highlights already. All the emphasis is mine. …people have enhanced quality of life, but at the same time they are adding to their…
The Old Reader and Hell
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I read this post on The Old Reader and the short story is that once Google Reader announced a shut down the people running The Old Reader got super busy. So busy that the owners became idiots. Yes you read that right they became idiots. Such idiots in fact that they stopped having a life…
Adopting a Legacy WordPress Site
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I was asked to provide a guest post for Post Status about client services and I decided to walk through adopting a legacy WordPress site. The post shows you how I walk through getting the site set up for development and how I approach letting the client know something is happening.
Freelance Fantasy Land
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I’ve been struggling with motivation lately which to many working ‘regular’ jobs seems pretty silly. I mean I work at home, I can have lunch with my kid and I ride my bike Friday afternoon’s. I have little to complain about. But there is an underlying current of just not being happy with the specifics…
Are you selling the dream or a feature list?
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What are you selling me? Yeah sure it’s a service and you’ve got features but that’s not what really sells me on your product. WPtroubleshooter Take a look at WPtroubleshooter, what are they selling? On the surface they’re selling security, backups, development, spam clean up and a few other things. But that’s not what they’re…
This is why I don’t do discounts and payment extensions
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This is why I don’t do discounts. if you want to spend less we cut the amount of work we are doing. I don’t give extensions on payment terms because that just trains you that next time you can get an extension. Of course when a client’s wife died I extended for 6 months, that…
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