The Complete Guide to Productized Services for Web Designers
If you’re a busy freelancer or consultant working directly with your clients on a 1-to-1 basis, you’ve inevitably made the realization: I’m so busy with client work that I can’t take on more clients, but I need more clients to hit my business income goals. So, client-service business owners face a significant challenge: how do you […]
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Are you a consumer or creator?
As a society and modern culture, we are addicted to consumption & instant gratification. Smartphones are little miracle machines that have brought great joy, progress and value to our hyper-connected world. But the hours we spend glued to our screens are also destroying us, our focus, our productivity and our creativity (not to mention the […]
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Honesty & Integrity in Online Business
Online Business changed my life. I get to create every single day. I get to experiment and play. What I create impacts people all over the world. I have “fans”. The ideas I have get to become real things… and those real things affect real people. The core of what I do is “teaching”. I’m […]
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Mountains & Valleys: How to Bridge Inconsistent Freelance Income
It’s called many things: “Feast or Famine”, “When it rains it pours”, “Mountains & Valleys” (my favourite term), etc. But they all mean one thing: Freelancers make inconsistent income. It’s just the nature of the beast. Some months a freelancer can make tremendous money, and other months their income can plummet to the ground. It […]
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Self Employment: A Risk Worth Taking
When I first started designing and developing websites in 2009, I knew there was an abundance of studio jobs out there when I graduated from my University program. It was very exciting to know that when I graduated, the possibilities were almost endless; there were great gigs in Vancouver, Calgary, Los Angeles, New York City, […]
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A Business Idea Can Strike At Any Moment
Sometimes when an idea strikes, it’s best to take immediate action on it. That’s why you hear of songwriters or authors keeping a notebook beside their beds so that when they wake up in the middle of the night with an idea—a lyric, a melody, a plot line—they can immediately take action in the heat […]
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