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Credit Where It’s Due

October 27, 2014 by Eric

When you work with consultants, be classy and give credit where it’s due after the project is complete.

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: consulting, credit, honesty, integrity, visibility

7 Things WordPress Developers do Right

September 11, 2014 by Eric

I recognize a lot of what we, in the WordPress community, do wrong, but I also want to highlight several things we do right.

Filed Under: Business, Technology Tagged With: consulting, WordPress

Do You Leave Time on the Table?

June 11, 2010 by Eric

How long does it take you to complete a project?  When you bid for 1 hour of work, does that actually comprise 1 hours of head’s-down labor, or one hour of total focus on the project?  Do you go home at the end of the day and stop working, or do the wheels keep turning […]

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: consulting, estimate

The Accidental Consultant

March 15, 2010 by Eric

A couple of summers ago, I found myself in the small office of a tech start-up asking questions about my ambitions as a consultant.  I had finished business school almost a year before, but my age still betrayed my actual skills as a marketer and started these kinds of questions with just about everyone I […]

Filed Under: Journal Tagged With: consulting

Pay Time

May 22, 2009 by Eric

At a sales training seminar a couple weeks ago, the presenter spoke on the topic of separating pay time from no pay time.  I was very familiar with this concept, but not in quite the way he put it.  All of us recognize the importance of tracking billable versus non-billable hours, but “pay time” doesn’t […]

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: consulting, entrepreneurship

About Me

Eric is a storyteller, web developer, and outdoorsman living in the Pacific Northwest. If he's not working with new tech in web development, you can probably find him out running, climbing, or hiking in the woods.

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