Don’t scoff at spreadsheets if you can’t tell me exactly how much your expenses are going to be next month
I woke this morning with it dawning on me just how reactive I am to things in my business. Definitely prompted by yesterday’s nightmare of sorting out my end-of-tax-year expenses. Paying bills is just one of those things I react… Read more…
Learn from me, my friend…
A short and sweet tip for today… Don’t leave sorting out your business expenses until the day before your accountant (or whoever) needs them! I may be speaking from experience here. An experience I am PAINSTAKINGLY living through right now…… Read more…
Go on… fess up
If I ever make a bloody gigantic mistake with a client… My approach: honesty is the best policy. (Wow… some measure of manners and decency DID seep in from my parents!) Now… This isn’t some sort of confession today. And… Read more…
Is it time to make my big screen debut?
Is it time to make my big screen debut? Well… maybe these days it’s more of a small-screen device debut. But the question remains. And I must say, “thanks” to the one person who emailed and got me thinking about… Read more…
My email from a year ago stinks…
I’m laughing (well… wincing) at an email I wrote a year ago for one of my clients. Hmmm… Maybe my clients should stop reading today’s email around about now. 😏 Yes… I have clients on my email list. Maybe they’re… Read more…
Niching and your website
I saw this great question in a Facebook group that I belong to. It’s on a topic that’s near and dear to me… niching. “Should I niche?” is of course the million-dollar question for many freelancers. On this occasion, the… Read more…
Should you call yourself a freelancer?
I don’t call myself a “freelancer” when talking with prospective or existing clients. 😲 “But, Chris, you’re always writing about freelancing. And you have an email list called Freelance Contours. What gives?” You’re right. I talk about it ALL THE… Read more…
Chicken and egg problem?
If you’re stuck for what to write then… Nothing beats having no ideas than… writing. Yeah, yeah… I know how that sounds. Chicken and egg problem and all. 🐔🥚 But… When you start writing and working with an idea… it… Read more…
An ebook in one-minute flat?
Yep… in one-minute flat today… While I was having a chat about ebooks with a freelancing friend… I threw the formatted text from my ebook into a Google Docs file. Dragged in the cover image. Went to File ==> Download… Read more…
Avoiding embarrassment was a big motivator…
Just in the nick of time I managed to complete my Q1 goal which was… write an ebook! (Yeah… told you I’d be talking about that a bit this week!) This is a BIG deal for me because it’s a… Read more…
