Business Development

Digging your hands into the soil

By Chris / April 2, 2017 / Comments Off on Digging your hands into the soil

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 of freedom to have the time to help the world, and do what was meaningful, and create beautiful things with my own hands. Again, with the next permutation. Again, with…

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Critical path analysis for solopreneurs

By Chris / April 2, 2017 / Comments Off on Critical path analysis for solopreneurs

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 mentioned elsewhere. The point of this is: survival. The continual analysis and refocusing to increase chances of entrepreneurial survival. Although you will tend to think there is something else you…

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Pursuing Relevant Replication

By Chris / March 29, 2017 / Comments Off on Pursuing Relevant Replication

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 possible poverty of running a coaching business, or freelance business, or therapy business one client at a time, you have probably come across the idea that you can create online…

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All Horses Are Red: WordPress CSS for Everyone

By Chris / May 25, 2013 / Comments Off on All Horses Are Red: WordPress CSS for Everyone

    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 beholdin’ to the whims of web developers—learn what this CSS thing is all about, and how YOU can apply it with simple techniques that can transform the look of your…

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Brilliant cartoon about mental models

By Chris / April 24, 2012 / Comments Off on Brilliant cartoon about mental models

I love this! He’s managed to encapsulate an important (and oft-ignored) truth about design, in such a way that it will be accessible to everyone: http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/23/mental-model-diagrams-cartoon/ Here is another one he did about personas (again—important idea, hard to explain and sell to your team): http://thinkvitamin.com/design/how-to-understand-your-users-with-personas/ I’m thinking this is really a key—cartoons. Encapsulate everything easily Make it…

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