Last week, I answered a composite reader question about everyone’s favorite subject: taxes. This week, I’ll build on that with another composite question. This time about how to scale freelancing work that you might do. I’ve gotten a few different questions about this over the last several months. I’ll try to cover everything you all…
Ah, the mission to find clients. Critical for any business, obviously, but especially daunting for the newbie solo consultant or freelancer. Today’s reader question solicits advice on how to tackle this. I like your ideas for future topics. I’d love to see more on how to find and win clients. Not just general marketing, but…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the Monitis blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you’re there, take a look at all of the different monitoring solutions they offer. The world seems to conceive of a curious bubble separating IT from “the business.” More so than just about…
Ah, the eternal opportunistic question: how to freelance? You work as a software developer, making $100K per year or something. This is a great wage, and so you have a great life, sitting pretty high up atop Maslow’s famed hierarchy. But then you figure out that Steve in your group is actually a contractor, and a…
Tonight, I logged into my site and saw a picture of someone’s colon, compliments of everyone’s favorite NSFW advertising engine, Disqus. (Read more about this here). Enough is enough, so I switched commenting engines. Please bear with me and let me know if you have issues with comments. On a less aggravating note, please enjoy…
