The biggest problem with freelancing is, ironically, that you have clients. — You Totally Missed the Mark | Second And Park
Here’s a great post by Tiffany Jones on learning to effectively manage client relationships. Clients, as we know can be, well, crazy. It’s about learning to manage this personalities and projects calmly and positively. It’s our responsibility to make it work. That’s the gist, of the post, and I agree.
“If you’re not going to pay for your own product, don’t expect anybody else to either” — David Heinemeier, 37 Signals Podcast
This point really struck a chord with me as I was listening to the (really awesome) new podcast show from 37 Signals. When determining the pricing model for the product you will be selling, it’s important to focus on the customer’s perspective, not your own bottom line.
Entrepreneurs and freelancers have no choice but to follow their passion.
The minute I began thinking about leaving my full-time job and going solo, I knew it was going to happen. The only question was when. And the answer was, as soon as possible.
For entrepreneurs and freelancers, there is no internal debate. There is no weighing of options over whether or not to pursue something you’re passionate about. We skip that hesitation stage and go strait to planning and setting goals. It’s the nature of the beast.
Here’s an article I wrote for FreelanceSwitch last month. I was getting increasingly frustrated with the way clients and companies treat the freelancer working relationship. I felt it was necessary to put together a set of rules if you will, which hopefully some clients out there will read.
Just posted on the ThemeJam Blog:
Seeking (exclusive) Beta Testers for ThemeJam
If you’re interested in helping out with testing our themes (and gaining early, free access to them!), get in on the beta testing action! We’re accepting applicants between now and January 10th, 2010.
For those who don’t know about ThemeJam, check out my post from earlier in the week.
An events list is just what you would expect; a list of upcoming events, ordered by the date they are taking place on (Not the date they were written on!). In this post, we are going to create our own events list that will let us add events simply by writing posts and assigning them to an “Events” category. It can’t get much easier than that!
This is a 3 part series of tutorials. This one shows you how to create a jQuery featured slider that works without Javascript. The next part will show how to make a dynamic version of this.
I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it's awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#35 and make sure to comeba
One of the new very interesting things in WordPress 3.0 are individual post-types you can implement with little effort. Back
