All about the productivity …
Just a quick one … I’ve got stuff to do. But I’m all about the productivity at the moment and wanted to share this great anecdote from Jerry Seinfeld (via lifehacker). Software developer Brad Isaac got some great advice from Jerry Seinfeld: … He told me to get a big wall calendar that has a whole...
A better way to take payments online?
If you want to take money online, whatever you decide to do comes down to a couple of basic choices: do I want to take money through an integrated payment provider – one who’s software can integrate with my website, and pass money directly to my bank account?, or do I want to use PayPal....
Why your internet based business is going to fail
Photo by jbhalper – http://flic.kr/p/6zr4TR In which I reveal the closely guarded secrets as to why many, many web based businesses fail. Fine, I hate suspense too … so if you’re after the short version, it’s this: you haven’t put enough money aside to market your business properly. Slightly longer version follows … I’ve...
I Don’t Understand The Facebook IPO
I don’t understand the Facebook IPO. Or, more to the point: as a potential (extremely small) investor, I don’t understand clearly enough how it would make me money. If I were a growth fund manager then yes, I’d be in there all guns blazing … it would make good sense to buy as much Facebook...
Push your content, not your website
Something I try and stress to people now when developing websites is that the key to getting them to deliver is to understand that it is not actually about the website itself, it’s about the content. Your content should exist independently of your website – you should be able to break it into chunks and...
Starting A Freelance Web Design Business
I had my second Freelance Switch article published a couple of weeks ago now (my next one is scheduled for some time in the next week or two) – this one focuses on some of the things I learnt in starting up as a freelance web designer. 9 steps in fact … I love the...
A better way to manage email: transitioning from Mac Mail to Sparrow Mail
Sometimes, it’s just time for a change. I was fed up with how I was processing my email – it seemed to have little relevance to the way I work, clogged up with systems that I didn’t use and weighed down with 12 years of evolution. Folders, rules, smart folders … ways of organising incoming...
A web designers guide to running a seminar …
Earlier this year I ran some marketing training for Derry City Council. The reasons for doing so were threefold: Diversify my income. So much of my work is client based. For the most part this is great – I love the nuts and bolts of coding a website and I enjoy the day to day...
Work Life Balance – a TED talk
One of my facebook people linked to this wonderful 10 minute talk by Nigel Marsh on that ever popular topic – the Work Life Balance … it’s well worth 10 minutes of anyone’s time – check it out:
The buying mindset … creating opportunities to connect
I was listening to a podcast from the excellent Freelance Jam the other day – it was an interview with Sarah J Bray. In what was pretty much a throwaway comment from Sarah she delivered a terrific insight that, in eight years of freelancing, had never been put to me so succinctly. I’m paraphrasing from...