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How To Meet Deadlines And Boost Performance

Posted November 21, 2007 in Productivity 7 Rockin' Comments »

Although some people think that deadlines kill creativity and hamper productivity, they can really help you streamline your energies and focus on the work at hand, especially when you work as a freelancer and have multiple projects to handle.

If you don’t set deadlines for your individual projects you will soon lose track of time and will never be able to deliver the projects on time to your clients, creating a bad professional reputation in the process.

If you want to be taken seriously by your past, present, and future clients, you have to take your deadlines seriously and respect them; when you respect your deadlines it means you respect your client’s time and also your own time.

But following deadlines can sometimes prove to be a really difficult task and this happens more often when you work on your own and there is nobody to supervise you or nag you in case you delay your work. [Click here to read more →]

3 Reasons Your Business Is Growing So Slowly

Posted November 19, 2007 in Marketing 23 Rockin' Comments »

We’d all like to believe that getting a full docket of clients and customers is as easy as flipping on a light switch.

But in real life it ain’t that easy… or is it? If you want to quit limping along the slow path, here are 3 smart tips to short-cut your way to the big time.

Reason #1: You’re Fishing For Customers, Instead Of Going To The Fish Market.

You could spend all your time looking for customers (rather than doing billable work for them), but ‘looking’ doesn’t put bread on the table. Instead of calling out into the world, waiting for a reply, why not find out who already has access to your customers, and strike a deal with them? [Click here to read more →]

Solo SEO Link Search Tool - Fast and Free

Posted November 18, 2007 in Uncategorized 6 Rockin' Comments »

There’s been a lot of talk on blogs about the PageRank update lately, may tools can help you get better rankings, some are great, some are not. Want to save some serious time and money? Try Solo SEO Link Search Tool, here’s how it works…

How?

You simply start by typing in a desired keyword phrase related to your website. Let’s take “Web Design for example. In just a few seconds, the tool returns numerous helpful links in 4 different categories for you to follow out to good ol Google. The tool returns information in the following categories Add/Submit, Advanced, Directories and Blogs/Forums. [Click here to read more →]

2007-11-17 Saturday Links Folder

Posted November 17, 2007 in Uncategorized 4 Rockin' Comments »

Hello everyone, hope you had a killer week, it’s the week-end again, time to take a short break, the to-do list will still be there when you come back. I read some really good posts this week, and I’d like to share them with you.

Here we go:

• Productivity Toolbox: 37+ Tools for Taking Action and Getting Things Done
• 23 Places to find freelance writing jobs and freelance blogging jobs
• Want More Professional Comments? Just Add Style!
• 30 Interview Questions You Can’t Ask and 30 Sneaky, Legal Alternatives to Get the Same Info
• Quitting the Day Job: Finding the Guts to Pursue Your Dreams
• Why Other Designers Are Not Web Designers
• What to Do When You’re Fresh Out of Ideas
• We vs. I
  
• Webmaster Essentials Checklist

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5 Simple Ways To Get Repeat Business

Posted November 15, 2007 in Business, How-To 8 Rockin' Comments »

Everytime you get a new client you probably want to prove him or her you can do the job, you want repeat business. And if you don’t have that feeling you’ll get business from a client again in the future, then there are some things you may need to work on.

#1- Be Committed

Being committed doesn’t mean that you have to leave everything else and cater to the needs of one client and forget about the others. It means showing the client that although your work has been appreciated by them and you delivered on time and everything is to their liking, you would like to offer a little more. Not necessarily go out of your way, but do what needs to be done, what you agreed on in the first place, in order to get repeat business from that client. [Click here to read more →]

Tricks For Dealing With Difficult Clients

Posted November 13, 2007 in Business, How-To 7 Rockin' Comments »

If you work as a freelancer difficult clients are as common as stars in a cloudless night. Okay, you shouldn’t take my poetic analogy too literally, but still once in a while you end up working for a client who you wish didn’t exist in the scheme of the universe.

But the sad reality is that there are all sorts of clients for whom you have to work because they are an integral part of your work and if you started avoiding clients just because they are “bad clients” or “difficult clients” then soon you would end up having no clients at all.

The definition of difficult clients may vary from client to client, on a case by case basis. But just for the sake of this blog post let us try to define a difficult client using the following characteristics: [Click here to read more →]