How hard could it be to publish an ebook in a couple days? Actually, not that hard. As I’ve been freelancing more, I’ve been thinking how to get more business—a rather important part of the whole freelancing thing. A lot of people have downloadable giveaways like templates, worksheets, and ebooks on their sites. I figured…
SaneBox and Spark bring me close to email nerdvana Yes, yes Slack is awesome. Basecamp is killer and I love Asana. All of these tools are designed to reduce the amount of email we send and receive. Except it hasn’t worked out that way. I still get a lot of email from people, especially for…
10 things a geek dad would like to have that isn’t a tie Photo by Juliane Liebermann on Unsplash Not that many of us wear ties any more. I don’t think I’ve had to regularly wear a tie to work—ever. I know that there are as many kinds of geek dads are kinds of dads and geeks out…
It’s not the years under my belt, it’s how I relate to my audience I recently let the cat out of the bag that I’ve ramped up my freelance writing practice. If I’m honest with myself, I’m most happy when I’m writing and writing about technology. But that’s not the whole picture. When I started…
In which our hero, revamps his neglected website, imports content from Medium, and says: “F*ck it, I like being a writer”. I’m back in the freelance writing and content game. Hit me up. I buy ink by the barrel. From the day I started looking I resisted going back to freelance work. I took on…
You see the mountain you need to climb, now how do you get there? “A woman on a ledge high over a wooded valley” by Mike Wilson on Unsplash Let’s get the whole goal-strategy-tactics definition out of the way first. Lots of people mess this up and it’s essential to get this right out of the gate….
I’m no economist, but something has to give “Old, vintage and rusty blue gas pump located at a gas station at Los Alamos.” by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash One dollar and sixty cents a liter. Gas hit this stellar mark here in Vancouver?—?making it the highest gas prices in North America ever?—?and while I haven’t seen prices…
I can’t tell you what sources I read, that’s not how it works Photo by Claudia on Unsplash One of the secrets to being a professional blogger (aka Content Marketer 1.0, or maybe beta version) is to read a lot of sources. Those of us who started out like this curated and shared our list of feeds…
Or talk or speech or keynote. “A close-up of a microphone with a group of people in the blurred background” by Kane Reinholdtsen on Unsplash Here’s my trial by fire story when I gave my first important presentation, survived, and used those lessons to make public speaking and teaching one of my favorite things. Almost all my…
Dig another well, of course Photo by Antony Xia on Unsplash We use the creative well as a metaphor for where creativity comes from. With the exception of folks like Hunter S. Thompson who augmented their creativity chemically, most of us pour a coffee, put on music and go. So what do you do when the creative…