Writing is my primary focus for a lot of my business. How I communicate with client. How I market. How I create products. But I couldn’t do any of that if I was afraid of writing or bad at writing. If you’re starting to get into writing, here are a few lessons I learned. Write …
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Having a productive day using habits
Everyone wants productive days. You know, those days where you look back on and think “I really kicked ass today”. Unfortunately, it’s hard to continue a streak of those days over a long period of time. We get caught up in busywork or some event throws us off our game. I’ve been trying to make …
Write. Every day.
I like writing. It feels good to put my thoughts on the page (screen). But I’ve noticed that I go through periods of writing and periods of non-writing. Going from the non-writing to writing is 100x harder than the other way around. Between Chris Guillebeau and Nathan Barry I decided to take my writing more …
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 …
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 …