At the Intersection of Speed and Excellence

Archive for March, 2009

Gorilla Client

When you’re a freelancer and get a really big client, probably the first thing you do is cheer.  Money!  Lots of work!  You can slack off marketing for awhile, wheeee!!!!!
If that client is now providing more than about 20% of your business, stop cheering right now and start panicking.  No, seriously.
There’s an expression for this [...]

Do You Have Office Hours?

Often the idea of working for oneself means freedom!  If you get a wild hare to go shopping in the middle of the day, you can do it and finish up your work later in the day.  You don’t have a boss breathing down your neck to get a report done.  You don’t have to [...]