I’m sorry to say, you might be losing leads. If you’re site doesn’t have a contact form that lets someone easily email you, you’re not getting as many leads as you can. You might say “But I have my email address listed.” Doesn’t matter. When I first started freelancing I built a website with a …
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Make selling your freelance services easier by using long term contracts
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 …
My writing process
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 …
Ruby Freelancers e20 with C.J. Hayden, author of Get Clients Now
Episode 20 of Ruby Freelancers is now available. In this episode we interviewed C.J. Hayden who wrote Get Clients Now. I can attribute much of my success to the marketing I learned from Get Clients now, especially in the first few months of Little Stream Software.
Four Lessons I Learned Offering a Pre-Order For My Ebook
Recently I launched my third ebook, Redmine Tips. I learned a lot from Refactoring Redmine’s launch so I experimented with some new ideas to see what could happen. The biggest change this time around was offering the product for pre-orders. After talking with some advisers I decided to accept pre-orders for Redmine Tips. The pre-order …