Most developers I know don’t enjoy marketing and selling. Some tolerate it but the vast majority of them hate selling and talking about themselves. I’m not going to try to defend marketing and selling here, maybe I’ll write about that later. Rather, I’d like to talk about a way to avoid selling or at least …
I’m Writing a Book: “The Freelancer’s Guide to Long-Term Contracts”
Advice I kept hearing at MicroConf 2013 for consultants was to build products that deliver your expertise to other businesses. These products could be a book like Rob Walling’s Start Small, Stay Small or a training course like Patrick McKenzie’s Lifecycle Emails. These let a larger audience benefit from your expertise than 1-on-1 teaching and …
Top 3 Server Companies I Recommend to my Clients
I got started with system administration sometime in 2004, when I first picked up a copy of Red Hat from a co-worker. I really enjoyed how Linux worked and for years always had a server or two (or six) at home to tinker on. Later on, I co-managed all of the servers for a small …
Weekly product metrics
Every Monday morning I sit down and run the metrics for all of my products for the past week. I do this in order to make sense of what was happening with them, as well as to track their long term progress. Why every week? I found weekly metrics worked the best for me because …
Buy My Ebooks With A Credit Card? What is this 2007?
Ever since I launched Refactoring Redmine, Redmine Tips, and Authoring Ebooks I’ve only been setup to accept orders with Paypal. Part of this is because Paypal was the only viable option I had and part of it was because Paypal is an easy payment processor when selling things online (at least one-off purchases). I also …