When you work with consultants, be classy and give credit where it’s due after the project is complete.
7 Things WordPress Developers do Right
I recognize a lot of what we, in the WordPress community, do wrong, but I also want to highlight several things we do right.
Do You Leave Time on the Table?
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 […]
The Accidental Consultant
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 […]
Pay Time
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 […]