How to Take a Vacation Without the Internet
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…7 Steps to Cross Cultural Web Design
Any business owner in the world knows that having a website is a must in this day and age. The times when shop owners knew every client by name are behind us. With over one billion Internet users worldwide, this is one highway everyone should take. If you’re planning to go global and expand your...
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...
Read more…Starting A Successful Business
I’ve recently had several people tell me that they’d like to jump into freelancing soon and quit their full-time jobs. The problem is, they have no idea where to begin so they keep putting the idea off. I’ve seen this a lot with people. We’re so used to what we’re already doing that it’s scary...
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