Dootch

Lately I’ve been focusing a lot on vec3t projects and on the ecommerce stores. Since freelancing still makes up the lion’s share of my income, and since I want more money, I’ve decided I’ve got to lift my freelancing game. I am not optimal in a number of ways at the moment. I don’t bill [...]

When I was a kid, whenever I asked for something that my parents didn’t want to give me yet, they’d always say things like “people who ask don’t get” and “you get what you’re given”. It never made a lot of sense to me but I heard a story the other day that really made [...]

So about three months ago now myself and my e-commerce business partner Dave took over at Clock Central and we also launched Board Game Central. I thought now would be a good time to reflect on the things I’ve learned so far. 1. Price is king. At first we tried raising prices and adding a [...]

I’ve written before about how turning down clients is necessary to grow as a freelancer, but today I want to focus on signals that alert you that this job might be a good one to turn down. 1. The client is quote shopping. Government departments are great at this. They send you an email with [...]

One of the problems of CMSMS is that there are a hell of a lot of modules, but it’s hard to know which ones are the best without trying them out first. Here are my recommendations on the best modules. Photo Gallery – Gallery Album Product catalog – Products – Great module. One of the [...]

I’m a pretty easy going guy. When I started freelancing, you would’ve been hard pressed to insult me. Now, I’m much more professional and do a much better job, but some things can really tick me off. Sometimes being easy going means that you just don’t care enough. “We’re a non profit… Can you do [...]

Without a doubt, the #1 key to happy freelancing is… perfect customers. What makes a perfect customer? The perfect customer is successful. People that are winning are generally good at what they do. It’s far easier getting content and feedback and input from someone who is organised and on top of things than someone bogged [...]

If you don’t use CMSMS, skip this post. In html, if you want to do a back to top link, you can just do <a href=”#top”>Back to top</a>, and it will take you to the top of the page no problems. Pretty simple. But in CMSMS, if you do that, for one reason or another [...]

So I’ve been reading a lot about software startups lately and thought I would share a few links that I’ve found to be really awesome. Organic startup ideas – This article is by Paul Graham from y-combinator. There are two types of startup ideas: those that grow organically out of your own life, and those [...]

I’m sure at some point it’s happened to most freelancers. You spend hours on a design, working on getting all the last little details right. The design is pixel perfect, everything has plenty of room to breathe, it looks great and it feels like you’re going to hit a home run. Then you show it [...]