AppSumo’s Digging Into WordPress $15 Deal + Giveaway
For today only, AppSumo is giving away copies of the new version of Digging Into WordPress by Chris Coyier for only 15!! If you don’t remember, I reviewed the first version of the book over a year ago. It’s still one of the best books I know of for WordPress development. What’s new in version...
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Running a business is tough enough, but when you’re centered in an industry that seems to change almost every day, it can seem impossible. While there’s a ton of freelance work out there, there’s also plenty of competition and it becomes a daily fight to set yourself apart. One of the best things about being...
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Even though we can work from anywhere and can dictate our own schedules, it’s not often that we allow ourselves to take non-working holidays, especially ones where we’ll be completely off the grid with no phone or internet access at all. I never though about this issue until about eight months ago when I got...
Read more…Foolproof Way To Gain 50,000 Followers In Our Industry
While I’m not here to name names, I’ve been disappointed more than once recently when I’ve found another “leading industry expert” who offered no insight or any a hint of usefulness in their tweets. Of course your Twitter account is your own and you can use it anyway you’d like, but in our industry we...
Read more…Review of the Social Signup Plugin
A few weeks ago, the creators of the Social Signup Plugin contacted me about doing a review of their plugin. While I don’t normally do review requests, the plugin actually sounded like something one of my clients needed, so I decided to check it out. From their website, they describe their plugin as: We decided...
Read more…25 Easy Ways to Fine Tune Your Freelancing Business
One of the things about freelancing that’s both helpful and harmful, is that once you get the business going, it pretty much runs itself. Once you’ve gone over that first hump of finding those first few clients, if you provide great service and work, you often don’t even need to advertise or look for clients...
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