Tag: habits

How habits can make freelancing easier

I’m going to take a quick break from discussing the marketing tactics to write about one topic that I’m passionate about. Habits. Wait, don’t go yet… Habits can be really interesting, but they comes with a lot of baggage. Much of that baggage comes from being critical about our bad habits. Staying out late, consuming …

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How to Build a Business System

Business relies on routines. Things that happen day in and day out. No, correction. Successful, long-term businesses rely on routines. Unsuccessful ones don’t need routines. Routines A routine is just a series of steps that are taken to accomplish a result. They can be as simple as how you start the coffee in the morning …

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Advice for new freelancers

A friend emailed me the other day: What one piece of advice would you give new freelancers? The single most important piece of advice I’d give new freelancers is to build a system or process for their marketing. While it might not feel that important at the beginning, having a system in place to do …

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Write. Every day.

I like writing. It feels good to put my thoughts on the page (screen). But I’ve noticed that I go through periods of writing and periods of non-writing. Going from the non-writing to writing is 100x harder than the other way around. Between Chris Guillebeau and Nathan Barry I decided to take my writing more …

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