I’ve decided to have a summer sale. Summertime is a great time to start thinking about freelancing. The bright sun means you can get out more. Vacations with your family lets you spend quality time with them and become closer. And most of all, you start to see the how things can be different. After …
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The Freelancer’s Guide to Long-Term Contracts Launched
After a busy couple of months, The Freelancer’s Guide to Long-Term Contracts is now done. To celebrate, all three versions will be ~20% off until 5pm PDT this Friday (2013-08-16). Eric Davis
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 …
Working freelance one on, three off
Over the past few years freelancing I’ve been testing different styles of scheduling my client services. Typically freelance projects are either spread out (20/hours a week for 6 weeks) or are bunched up into large chunks (40/hours a week for 3 weeks). Neither of these have felt that good to me. Spread out or in …
Bootstrapping Design
Jarrod (a 30×500 member) just launched his ebook, Bootstrapping Design. I had the privilege to read his early drafts and I highly recommend it for developers and product builders. Bootstrapping Design was written at the perfect time for me. One of the guiding principles I’m building into Chirk HR is that software should be easy …