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A Canva Review
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I reviewed Canva for Alpha Efficiency. It’s been a great app for all my design work recently. Go check out my review and see if Canva might fit in your workflow.
Chris Lema on fulfillment
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Chris says: Finding fulfillment isn’t about being perfect or getting everything right. It’s not about being skilled and an expert at something – recognized as being the best at something. He says fulfillment is when all your skills come to bear on a hard problem and you win. The struggle and overcoming the challenge is
Another good money post, this one by Darius Foroux
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This note made me smile from Darius Foroux: “All my problems will be solved once I have a little bit more cash on hand.” Sorry to disappoint you, but that will never happen. As your bank account grows, your problems will too. As Profit First advises, as your income grows so will your expenses. Foroux
Justin Jackson on Finances and Cutting Expenses
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Jackson says in regard to his $4400/month expense burn: This wasn’t as big of a deal when revenue was high. I was able to pay my expenses, and still pay myself a good salary. But, just as Michalowicz predicted, when sales slowed down, my monthly costs weighed on me like never before. Michalowicz wrote Profit
You’re interesting and we need it
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From Austin Kleon: In the (perfect) movie adaptation, Hannibal calls Clarice on the phone, and he says it just a little differently: “The world’s more interesting with you in it.” This is important to remember all the time. Especially when we are going through tough times. There is always a group of people that would
Shawn Blanc on managing photos in iOS
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Shawn has a good post on what he does. I’m still not sold on what iOS provides for digital asset management. I’m trying out Pixave to handle my video files now. It’s working okay, but has some issues I’m trying to dig deeper into. If you’ve got other options to manage, tag, sort, find digital
Tools to Stop Freelancer Feast and Famine
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Over the years I’ve been helping freelancer’s the biggest question I get is: “How do I get clients.” The big problem that most freelancer’s run into after they get an answer to that question is they get busy. Then they don’t have time to do the marketing that works and they hit a point in
Build Your Saas on Budgeting
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Build Your Saas on budgeting. This was a great talk on budgeting and how you think about your expenses. One of the keys is not to get stuck in a mindset either way. Just spending small amounts adds up and never spending can cost you with the time you put in.
Subscriptions can kill your budget
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Here is a great illustrated guide to checking your Apple subscriptions from iOS. I didn’t have any I didn’t expect but I know my friend Jason recently did an audit of his recurring expenses and saved himself hundreds of dollars for the year. In my upcoming book The Freelancer’s Guide to Getting Started I have
My iOS video workflow on The Sweet Setup
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You know I’m iOS first because I’ve said it a few times. Many of you have asked how I do it so I’ve been writing about it. Today you can read about how I shoot and edit videos with LumaFusion on my iPad Pro over on The Sweet Setup.