Strategies to stop wasting time
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As a solo consultant I don’t make money unless I’m billing it to clients. That means coffee breaks and lunches aren’t paid. Talking with the neighbour is not paid. Getting the mail not paid. So how do I keep myself on track with projects so I can be sure I’m getting paid each week? Define…
Shipping often – not just for SAAS
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You need to read this article on shipping software. It’s not just true for SAAS software it’s true for client services. Decreasing your code shipping time can improve your client relationships. Let my walk you through how I deploy code and databases during site development and why I think it helps my client relationships. One…
Looking a Medium
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Medium looks really interesting as a content platform. There are reasons that the content seems to be higher quality (and read the comments) than on personally run blogs. At the same time there are reasons you may not want to write on Medium The design card Medium demolishes and destroys Blogger and WordPress.com in design……
Still subscribed to my Feedburner feed?
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Many of you know that Google Reader shut down. Given that I really don’t trust Feedburner as a source of distribution for my articles. As I look at the stats there are some of you that are still subscribed to my Feedburner feed directly. I’ll leave Feedburner around as long as they keep it but…
My daily scrum with James Strocel
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A friend of mine has been looking for a job lately. To aid in his search he started a great daily scrum video. If you’re not familial with a scrum report, it’s also known as a ‘stand up’. Basically James goes over the things he’s struggling with in his projects and how he’s trying to…
Maybe Lift will help you write
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Since I’m talking about how I write so much you should take a look at Lift. There is a good write up on it at WPDaily.
Putting aside time to write
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My friend Matthew has been trying to write a blog post a day and has been having trouble with it. I think that every writer has this at some point. They day to day of life (kids, laundry, clients/job) just gets in the way of what we want to do. If you’re thinking that this…
Less in love with markdown
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I love Markdown. It’s super easy to remember and write. I think that it looks less cluttered when you’re writing (especially links) and it gets a bunch of HTML markup out of your way. What I hate is the WordPress support for it in the editor. I’ve never found a plugin that works properly. Either…
We are all Sales people
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Great post from Brian about being a sales person. If you’re freelancing you are not really a developer you are in sales. If you can’t sell yourself then you simply won’t have a business anymore.
I Have the Power
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I wrote last week about Plugging other Developers and how I think it’s an awesome way to market your services. No it’s not as fast but it builds long term fans. Even better is that you can really make someone’s day when you say something good about them. By plugging someone else’s services I have…
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