Writing

How to save your next great website idea

June 18, 2017

Trying to go from your new idea straight to finished website can waste a lot of time and money. Here’s how to avoid this.

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How we mess up website projects

June 14, 2017

This post was originally published by me on Medium.com. I’ve built dozens and dozens of websites for small businesses over the past twelve years. I’ve…

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Digging your hands into the soil

April 2, 2017

I have been at this for 12 years. Twelve. Years. In various fashions, with breaks, and many permutations. The bug of independent life; the bug…

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Critical path analysis for solopreneurs

April 2, 2017

This observation is a clarification for myself, of something I have noticed—and must remind myself. As is often the case, I have not seen it…

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Pursuing Relevant Replication

March 29, 2017

If you are a certain sort of person, with certain sorts of exposure to the idea of creating “passive income” or freeing yourself from the…

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Considerations when creating an online course or membership site

March 20, 2017

This is a video I made to summarize the basic considerations when you want to create a membership or “courseware” site using WordPress. The key here is this:

* Almost nobody will tell you about most of this

That’s kind of funny, right? But it’s true. In the real world, there are a series of major considerations I have come across in the real world. Planning for them may save you a lot of frustration later on.

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A guide to delegating

March 19, 2017

Delegating is hard; yet it is the crossover point in your business, between being having to “wear all hats” (no matter how poorly they fit), and starting to take the freedom of doing what you are good at, and letting others do other parts of the work. Here is a highly distilled, step-by-step practical guide on how to delegate effectively.

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Phones for minimalism

March 18, 2017

This is a beautiful movement. As we become more and more aware that more is not always better, people have begun to innovate in the other direction,…

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The advantages of billing hourly / Make sure you track your effective rate

June 21, 2016

Many blogs and books advise freelancers to bill by a flat fee, so they can sell value versus selling their time. That sounds great. But…

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All Horses Are Red: WordPress CSS for Everyone

May 25, 2013

    CSS is the formatting language of the web. If it’s mysterious to you, it needn’t be! No longer do you have to be…

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