Each day I wake up and while I am brushing my teeth, taking a shower, getting dressed, and getting my coffee I am mentally taking stock of what needs to be done that day. For me, and probably for many other freelancers, my day usually consists of project management, marketing, little tasks, and a main […]
Read the entry: Simple Habit To Be More Organized As A FreelancerYou hear all the time that as a freelancer you need to find and service a specific niche instead of just trying to work with anyone that will hire you. This is good advice and I have spoken before about how I specifically work mainly with creative agencies. Working with agencies is great for me […]
Read the entry: Why & How I Work With Agencies As A FreelancerI remember times in my career as a freelancer where project management wasn’t even on my radar because I had no projects that needed to be managed. In the biz we call that being in the famine part of the feast or famine cycle. Then I remember a particular time in my career where I […]
Read the entry: 5 project management tips for freelancersI had tried to learn Ruby on Rails for a year or two off or on. I did courses at online schools like Treehouse and CodeSchool, read books like The Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl, and watched countless videos on YouTube of people doing their best to teach others. The problem was that I was […]
Read the entry: How I Designed & Built a Ruby on Rails App in 30 DaysI had a chance to sit down and talk with a friend of mine, Adam Kiddoo, for his podcast The All-In Marketing Podcast. The interview is centered around my experience with WordPress and how I got started with it.
Read the entry: Interviewed on The All-In Marketing PodcastI have found myself at the beginning of what could possibly be my busiest month ever in terms of client work. Along with my normal workload of client projects I am starting the biggest project I have ever worked on. The extra kicker with this big project is that it needs to be completed in […]
Read the entry: When it’s time to buckle down you need to rise upRemember the beginning of the year when you took a moment and laid out what you wanted to accomplish this year? For me I don’t just do this at the beginning of the year, I am constantly evaluating my goals and deciding what I do or don’t want to proceed with. Hopefully what I decide […]
Read the entry: Attention Ping PongShow Notes: I have never been able to find a project management app that does exactly what I need it to. So like any normal person I decided to build my own, and I am calling it Hector. Follow & Subscribe Please subscribe via your podcast service of choice and send in your questions and comments to […]
Read the entry: The Freelance Podcast 022: The Mess of Project ManagementShow Notes: Even if you don’t succumb to procrastination or lose focus, you probably still deal with productive procrastination. Productive procrastination is when you work on some other work instead of the main work you should be working on. Since you are still working we trick ourselves into thinking we are still being productive. Follow […]
Read the entry: The Freelance Podcast 021: Productive ProscratinationShow Notes: Over the weekend I had an email exchange with a scam artist wanting me to do some work. I read you the entire email thread and give my thought process on why I said what I said. Follow & Subscribe Please subscribe via your podcast service of choice and send in your questions and […]
Read the entry: The Freelance Podcast 020: Avoiding scam project bids