Take Yourself out of the Loop
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I’ve been very busy with work lately and many of my regular tasks have been falling by the wayside. To try and make things faster/easier I’ve turned to IFTTT and now I wonder why I waited so long. What I’ve Automated AMA Podcast One of the big things I’ve been missing has been the AMA…
Support Over Board
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Gone are the days of citing a slight unhappiness with a service and not being inundated with ‘helpful’ people. I recently cited a reason I wasn’t happy with a Rackspace server I deal with for a client. My issues are: No SSH access Always runs slow Now it’s on my client to purchase servers with…
A Business in Debt…
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The wife and I have been working through the Total Money Makeover (affiliate) and I’m happy to say we’re debt free (which doesn’t count the mortgage). Now we weren’t ever in huge amounts of debt. We had a car payment, but that’s about it. We haven’t carried credit card debt in years. Now read this…
Shuttered Offices and Retained Earnings
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So Zynga is closing down offices. Not totally a surprise since it hasn’t been doing hot for a while and huge offices with massive banners cost a bunch of money. When I see these companies that rose fast, and are crashing fast I always wonder how much operating cash they have. How much did the…
Minimal or Not Finished?
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I’ve been very intrigued by all the talk about minimal blogging (or publishing) platforms lately. feathe.rs is one such platform that looked really nice. But I say looked. Go read that review to get some more context on where I’m going next. I 100% think that WordPress is awesome. I 100% think that WordPress is…
On Code Generators
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Anyone out there wants to save time. Who wants to keep repeating the same mundane tasks all the time? I certainly don’t. To save myself a bunch of time I’ve built up a snippet library and a bunch of projects on Github. Why build something a second time when you don’t have to. Code Generators…
Bigger Must be Better, Right??
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So this article is talking about the math of consumer facing apps when it comes to growth. It basically says that unless you’re viral (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest) it’s really hard to get from 1 million users to 10M. I can’t dispute that, it’s an order of magnitude difference. I do ask why 10M is better…
Payment on Unfinished Business
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One of the podcasts I’ve picked up recently has been Unfinished Business, which is all about running a web consultancy (or freelance business). Episode 3 talked about getting paid. In Short always take a deposit if you sub-contract work, make sure you have the $$ on hand to pay them always have a contract The…
Small Clients
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I looked at my January income but wanted to give you a better behind the scenes look at how the month almost went. Things Change Fast Looking at the last week of January I was sitting at around $6k of income in the month. I had some outstanding invoices that were due in February that…
January 2013 Income Report
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It’s time for the first income report for 2013. If you’re not familiar with my goals, here they are. One thing you notice is that I never state what I made in 2012. So sure I’m shooting for $100k but if I did $98k the year previous, it’s a reasonably easy goal. So here it…
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