Review of Clientophilic Freelancing
Clientophilic Freelancing by Shoaib Hussain is a unique kind of freelance book. Instead of talking about business and marketing tactics, Clientophilic Freelancing instead focuses on the way you interact with the client. Basically, a clientophilic freelancer is one who interacts well with clients and easily attracts new ones. This book goes into a bit of...
Read more…35 Books All Freelance Web Developers Should Read
If you follow me on Goodreads, you know that I absolutely love to read. I’ve always been a big reader, but since I’ve become a freelance I’ve made sure to read even more than usual, in the field of business, development and the web in general. Reading is essential to any developer’s improvement. While blogs and magazines are great...
Read more…How to Find Your Freelance Specialty
There have been several debates on whether or not you should specialize your services. It’s almost as heated as a debate as whether or not you should charge hourly or project rates. However, I firmly believe that specializing my services and clientele was what really allowed my own business to take off and succeed. Read the rest of my...
Read more…What is your online engagement strategy?
A while ago I read a great blog about LinkedIn connection strategies called Are You a LION, Turtle, Hound Dog, or Alley Cat? What’s Your LinkedIn Strategy? The author presented four basic connection strategies. 1) The LION (LinkedIn Open Networker), who connects with everyone and everything without much thought behind the connections; 2) The Turtle,...
Read more…Contribute Fridays: What are you working on today?
It’s a holiday weekend so you should take it easy today! I’m going to be working on my business – both AmberWeinberg.com and CodeSnipp.it. Doing some code updates, some promotional stuff, etc etc. What are you working on? huh, huh?
Read more…Want To Build Your Own Apps? Read Getting Real by 37signals
After reading and reviewing 37signals’ new book, REWORK, I decided to pick up their first book, Getting Real. Although a few people told me the books were very similar, I actually found a lot of differences between the two. It seems that REWORK was written more for business owners in general, but Getting Real was...
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