2015 Year in Review
Happy New Year! It’s time to take a look back on 2015 to reflect on how the year went and what our plans are for 2016.
Happy New Year! It’s time to take a look back on 2015 to reflect on how the year went and what our plans are for 2016.
Evaluating a real estate project can prove challenging for even the most experience freelancer or web agency. Answering the question “can we get our listings on the new website” is not straight-forward. When we talk about getting access to listings for display on a website or mobile app, we’re talking about IDX (Internet Data Exchange). […]
Seems like there’s a lot of negativity about ExpressionEngine these days. Or at least, some worrying. I’ve seen more than a few claims over the years about how this company or that technology was months away from death. More than a few prognosticators have predicted the death of Apple, e-commerce, Google, even the Internet itself. […]
Building a real estate website isn’t an easy task, by far the most complex and confusing part of any real estate website is building the search and display of real estate listings (also called the IDX search or feed).
It seems in-vogue now for bloggers to do a year in review post. I actually enjoy reading these quite a bit as they give some great insight on what freelancers and agency owners have tried over the past year to grow their businesses and their personal lives. Anyway here’s my year in review post. It’s […]
When I was first starting out my career I worked for an aviation startup company. My boss was more of a salesperson than a coder but he used a lot of techniques in 2002 that today’s “growth hackers” rave all about. One thing that always impressed me as a introvert was how everyday he’d call […]
Fear is a powerful emotion, especially the fear of failure. That fear runs in the heart of every freelancer, we’re utterly terrified of failing.
Note: I’m not a lawyer, nothing in this post is meant to be legal advice and is not to be taken as such. Please seek the advice of a legal professional for specific advice about your situation. Getting sued is probably one of the top concerns freelancers have. After all, even with a contract/service agreement […]
Having a service agreement signed between you and your client is a must for ANY project. Not only does having a service agreement protect you in case the project goes bad, it also marks you as a true professional.
Empathy in business may seem like a very odd concept, but I believe it could be the strongest trait a developer has when building trust with clients. Learn how empathy has served me well in my freelancing career.