Many people struggle with the duality of enjoying their current work while yearning for an increased income. Our Freelance Switch survey showed that many freelancers are working part-time to supplement their core source of income (salaried work). What do you do if you love being in your profession but know it’s unlikely to ever allow [...]
On 03.27.08, In Streamlining, by Evan Meagher
This is a guest post by Evan Meagher. He writes about tech, design, music and gaming at evanmeagher.net.
If blogs are to be believed, it would seem that every aspect of the web worker’s life revolves around one Apple product or another. The image of the hip MacBook Pro-clad designer has become a meme to the [...]
On 03.04.08, In Streamlining, by Skellie
True productivity is often painted as perfect, highly ordered, hierarchical and clean. The ideal system is polished and clinical, rules are followed and the productive person is all things to all people.
In my experience, this sanitized ideal is incompatible with ruthless effectiveness. True productivity is messy and imperfect. It requires mistakes and small sacrifices, elimination [...]
This is a guest-post by Alexis Dawes. She earns six-figures a year selling information products.
What’s the #1 deterrent that keeps people from writing and selling their own eBook? According to the people who e-mail me for advice, it’s the so-called grandeur of the task.
Even though most people want to write a book, there’s something about [...]
If you sell your skills and you run a blog or website, you must have a hire me page.
An About page which mentions you’re available for hire isn’t enough. The information will always be too broad: it has to cater to new visitors, people who want information about the blog/site, people who want general information [...]
On 02.19.08, In Streamlining, by Skellie
When you want to find the best of anything, Google shouldn’t be your first port of call. SEO is certainly useful for some webmasters and bloggers, but from a searcher’s perspective, it can mean that top results aren’t as good or as relevant as they could be.
If you’re looking for reading material, doing research on [...]
On 02.05.08, In Streamlining, by Skellie
I love paper in all its forms and always have. In fact, if given the choice between a notebook and a web app to fulfill the same function, I’ll choose a notebook every time. I tried Google Calendar and didn’t like it. Instead, I have a plain old calendar that hangs above my desk. I’ve [...]
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