Blogging has become a frequently recommended tactic to small businesses, including freelancers. For good reasons, too. Blogging can work good for you as a marketing tactic. But don’t feel like you have to blog. At its core, blogging has a few things going for it: it’s a written form of marketing, which makes it easy …
I’ve been writing a lot more recently. Between theadmin.org, Chirk HR, the Little Stream Software newsletter, and Chirk HR’s newsletter I’m probably close to writing a few thousand words per week. That’s not a lot for a writer but for a freelance developer and business builder, that feels like a lot. One thing that has …
Welcome to the great unveiling of Little Stream Software’s company blog. I’ll be writing about running a one person Ruby on Rails consultancy and the mistakes I’ve made while doing it (and boy, are there a lot of mistakes). I’m going to cover common topics like customers, pricing, and contractors as well as topics specific …
Mason over at Small Fuel Marketing just wrote a great post about how small business blogging can grow your business. I want share my own first hand experience of my own business blogging. This blog has been online since 2005 but it was mostly just a place I stored thoughts and ideas I had. Around …