Tag: Business

  • My Final Words

    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

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  • Support Your Non-Entrepreneurial Spouse

    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

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  • Be Your Spouse’s Sounding Board

    Be Your Spouse’s Sounding Board

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    Even before I became a part of the daily to do’s of Curtis’ business I was his sounding board. This falls under support, but I think it’s important enough to merit it’s own post. Whether you are business savvy or not you are your spouse’s sounding board. What exactly do I mean by that? Well,

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  • Boundaries

    Boundaries

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    Something that I am asked often as the wife of a “work at home” man is how it works. What people are really asking me is what the boundaries are. There seems to be this false impression out there that being self employed and working from home offers the ultimate freedom. I think a lot

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  • Supporting your Entrepreneurial Spouse

    Supporting your Entrepreneurial Spouse

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    This week for our blog series you guys get to listen to a new voice. I’ve been the “behind the scenes” person in Curtis’ business from the beginning and when we were talking about starting to run a series of posts on his blog every now and then he asked me if I would be

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  • Identify your income cycle

    Identify your income cycle

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    When you start running your own business you are going to find that some months are awesome income wise and others are less than stellar. I’ve noticed that there is a yearly cycle in my income and I’m going to share it with you today. Yearly Cycle The biggest trend that I’ve noticed is that

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  • Motivating Yourself to Freelance and Work Fulltime

    Motivating Yourself to Freelance and Work Fulltime

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    I was recently asked what motivated me to keep working and freelance. There was a time, about a year ago now, that I worked 40 hours a week at my full time job and 30 hours a week freelancing. Add to that the fact that we own one car and my wife finished 1 –

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  • 5 Jobs Clients Have During a Web Project

    5 Jobs Clients Have During a Web Project

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    For some reason many clients think that the only job they have in developing their websites is to hire the person/company that is going to build the site. Unfortunately they haven’t realized that once they hire someone to build the website their work has just begun. Establish Your Business Goals: A site is not just

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  • The Long Proposed Death of IE 6

    The Long Proposed Death of IE 6

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    The proposed demise of IE 6 rings with the shouts of joy from web developers the world over, but is it truly on the horizon? While sites trying to kill IE 6 extoll all the valid reasons web designers and developers have to want the death; clients sit and look at philosophical arguments and compare

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  • Cars with no Tires Eh?

    Cars with no Tires Eh?

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    The Setup You don’t make sure you new car comes with the tires because it would be absurd to sign the paperwork and come outside to your new car up on blocks. It’s a general expectation that cars come with tires. Why then do we put clients in that situation with websites? Take a new

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