20 Things To Do When You’re Not Coding
There has been so much going on with my freelance for the past month that I’ve had little time to breathe. The lines between my work and personal life have blurred even more as I’ve been reading several great business books and listening to business podcasts on my downtime, as well as working on a...
Read more…Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
It’s not often that I get excited about a business book. It just doesn’t happen, ever. That’s until I read “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?” by Seth Godin and got blown away. I was pretty disappointed with his Purple Cow book, so I figured this one wouldn’t be so great either. So much to my surprise,...
Read more…Setting Up Your Desk for Productive Web Development
I get lots of questions about how both my desk and apps are setup and how productivity can be improved. This is a very important topic for many reasons that isn’t discussed very often on the web. Properly setting up both your physical and virtual desks can make your more productive while also avoiding serious...
Read more…How To Keep Your Drive Going While Freelancing
Every freelancer hits a wall in his or her business at least once in their lifetime. The wall could be one of several: a financial wall; a loss of clients wall; or the worst wall of all – the loss of the initiative, drive or will to keep working. I hit the initiative wall about...
Read more…How To Start Your Freelance Business – And Not Fail
I get at least one or two emails a day from web professionals who want to become freelancers. Their stories are touching, but their questions are always the same, “How do you start freelancing?”, “How do you find clients?”, “How do I get my name out there?”. In today’s unstable work world, freelancing seems to...
Read more…Contribute Friday: What Music Gets You In The Mood To Work?
I’ve been searching for some great new music to listen to while working. I found a cool site once (that I can’t seem to locate now) that listed what music the person did while doing a certain web task. There was even a category for “music while debugging IE6“. I love listening to upbeat music,...
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