Entries from September 2007 ↓

Ok, so I was reading Brian Clark’s Copyblogger post today and Brian had a link to Chris Brogan’s blog post 100 Blog Topics I Hope YOU Write. In Chris’ list I found #8-Ways to Save a Bad Time at a Conference. Now, I’ve been to many, many trade shows and conferences over the years. Many are great. But sometimes you and the conference just don’t click for some reason. What do you do when you’re stuck there for two, three, or even four days?

I couldn’t say this any better myself, so why bother? Estimating is as much art as science. Fortunately, both the art and science of estimating jobs are fairly well understood.
The post on Web Worker Daily, titled Web Worker 101: Estimating Basics hits the primary suggestions that I encourage consultants and freelancers to follow, like multiplying […]

September 27th is the day that BlogCatalog.com has picked to unite bloggers against all forms of abuse. I’d like you to take a minute to think about how abuse in some form or another might have affected your life.

Here’s a free budget worksheet (Excel) you can use to count down how much money you need to earn to make your monthly budget. It occurred to me that it’s sometimes overkill to use an accounting program when all you’re doing is picking up a few jobs a month.

LongJump (http://www.longjump.com) is a clean web-based application that deserves your attention. Rather, I should say that LongJump is a set of applications and a development platform. Though it was just opened up today for the first time, I spent about an hour playing around with it.

The application provides a cleanly designed “LaunchPad” that allows you […]