You’ve decided to start your own freelance developer business. First off, that’s awesome. Second, have you started to freak out yet? The Freak Out I’m asking because I know I freaked out when I first got started. I bought all of the books even remotely related to freelancing. Read them all. And proceeded to feel …
Tag: freelancing
Billable or not?
It can be difficult to know what is “proper” billing when you first start freelancing. Obliviously you know to bill for the time you’re using your skill. But what about phone calls with the client about the project? In-person meetings? Travel? Thinking time? What if you lost time going down the wrong path and have …
Fixing a Boring Project
We’ve all been there before. You take a project that you know will be boring. Maybe it pays good and you’re hurting for work. Maybe you want to get your foot in the door with this client. Or maybe you thought it was interesting at first but now it’s settled into a rut. Whatever reason …
Project minimums
Or how I stopped wasting two hours to build a proposal for a project that would let me bill $600 When I started freelancing I used to talk to anyone who was interested in talking with me about a project. That usually included me creating a proposal for them too. Since I was timid, scared, …
If it hurts, stop
Earlier I decided to go for a barefoot run on my treadmill. I already run in sandals so I know how to do a barefoot running form, but I wanted to try it out and see how it worked. (In all honestly, I did it because I didn’t feel like going downstairs to get my …