I’m Getting Closer!

May 21, 2008

Live from six flags over Georgia

For most people, purchasing a template for your site saves money through reducing programming and graphic arts costs.

For a developer, it may save money if you don’t do the artwork yourself, as you save yourself from having to pay an artist, but it ends up costly in terms of changing an already-designed theme around.

When I started out with this redesign project, I wanted to try a lot of new things—purchasing my first theme (instead of custom-designing) was one of them. The thing about purchasing a theme is that it has pros and cons. As I said before, one of the pros is reducing costs through skipping a graphic designer and/or decreasing your development time. One of the cons is that I am a perfectionist and I’m using someone else’s work.

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Carnival of Business and Entrepreneurship

December 10, 2007

The Carnival of Business and Entrepreneurship #2 is up at Bootstrapper right now. I wanted to point out the entry, The Single Fastest Thing You Can Do to Increase Trust, from Trusted Advisor. This interested me because Charlie’s reasons really did make sense, but I read a lot about Tim Ferriss and the The 4-Hour Workweek for last week’s post on Entrepreneurial Time Management and Discipline. While reading Tim’s work, I was thinking about the kinds of ideas that Charlie is talking about in his article—that is, scheduling your e-mail and making people wait on you may be good for you, but it’s probably not the best idea for building solid client relationships. I think there’s a careful balance between Tim’s response and Charlie’s. Currently, I tend to lean more towards Charlie’s response.

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I’m a Location Independent Professional!

November 28, 2007

Disclaimer: I’m not picking on the people who really do live like that. Really, I’m not—if it works for you, then great.

I saw a blog entry today on Problogger from someone saying she is a "location independent professional". After immediately thinking that sounded a whole lot like a "hook of a brand-like name" (straight from the Wally Bock laugh from earlier this week), I was intrigued enough to click on the link. So what is a location independent professional? Basically someone who can do their job from anywhere in the world as long as they have their laptop and an internet connection.

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