Tag: Business
How much is your attitude?
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The garden needed to be cleaned. It had a winter’s worth of pine cones and pine needles in it. There were weeds everywhere. It looked terrible. There I stood making the communal townhouse garden presentable grumbling under my breath about the injustice of it all. I’m the one who does most of the snow shoveling…
How do you protect your vital business data
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I’ve already gone on record about trusting companies you’re not paying with crucial business process. I simply won’t do it. If you’re a free service, I won’t be relying on you for anything that is crucial to my business. Lately I’ve been thinking that I need to evaluate my business processes a bit more. Namely…
Emergency scanning just increases your stress
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Oh email…yup I know it’s a pain in the ass for you. It’s like that for me sometimes as well. I’ve been on an email diet for a while, but there is more to dealing with email than a diet. It all starts with how you handle email. If you’re a GTD person you’re going…
There is no later
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When you start running a business it takes a lot of hustle. If you’re being smart you’re not quitting your job right away. You’re working extra hours in the evenings and weekends to get the business going. Maybe you’re working extra hours after your regular job to make your freelance business a reality. You’re working…
Don’t Quit Clients
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The dream of many freelancers is to quit clients and focus on products. It may be themes, or books, or custom yoga pants that you want to make and sell. The specific product doesn’t matter. It’s the thought that no more clients around would be awesome. Quitter is a book about moving from your ‘day…
Do you finish as well as you start
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I’m generally a pretty safe driver by all accounts. I drive just barely over the speed limit and rarely rush anywhere (no lane changing and weaving for me) since I simply don’t see the point in saving 30 seconds driving across town. That doesn’t mean I’m free from driving mistakes. Almost there Yes the night…
The path to becoming a 6 figure specialist
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This is our 4th post talking about 6 figure consulting. So far we’ve covered the real numbers it takes to bring home 6 figures, then we took a bit deeper dive in to my expenses using real numbers. Yesterday we took a look at 2 tips for becoming a 6 figure WordPress consultant. Today we’re…
2 Tips to help you become a 6 figure WordPress consultant
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I’ve already written about one of the kickback points from my 6 Figure WordPress Consulting post when I broke down my expenses. The second push back I got was that someone doing WordPress could even make $60k let alone invoice over $100k. I’ve done it. I can think of many people that invoice over $150k…
My Final Words
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OK, so here goes my last and final post of this series… I think it’s important to summarize what we’ve talked about all week. When I think about the things that I could share, there are hundreds of them. What I’ve touched on this week is what I feel has been vitally important to OUR…
Support Your Non-Entrepreneurial Spouse
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I’ve talked a lot about how I support Curtis in his business ventures, but I think it’s important to talk about how he supports me and the things that I want to pursue. Please know that I’m not expert in marriage, but we’ve got 10 years of experience, one beautiful daughter and a second child…
