Monthly freelance reviews

Anything you do over time would benefit from a good review every now and then. Reviewing your progress helps you focus on the results you want and keep you heading in the direction you want. Every month I going to be reviewing what I accomplished in my freelance business and what lessons I learned. Hopefully …

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Progress Review – July 2007

This is being posted a little late but I think it is best to start off with the review of my first month in business. My first month of freelancing was a typical honeymoon period that most freelancers go though. Usually they had some change to their life and as a response they jump into …

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Ranking your success

I found a good quote for all people who worry that they are not good enough to run a successful business. Your success is never relative to someone else’s, because there’s always someone who’s making more, running faster, driving harder. Your success is a function of exceeding your life goals, which are uniquely yours. — …

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Are you a Technician or an Entrepreneur?

I just read a great post by Shane Pearlman titled The Technician and the Entrepreneur. In it he describes two different types of independent contractors, the Technician and the Entrepreneur. It gives a great overview to what happens to independent contractors as they become successful and start to question what they are really doing in …

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Customizing Bamboo Invoice

In a previous entry, I wrote about using Bamboo Invoice to create and mange the invoicing for my small software company. Now I want to walk through customizing the invoice to include some extra things. The Problem The base invoice is nice, but I really want to have the invoice due date printed on the …

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