Most of us aren't great at business conversations In a CNN poll run a few years ago, they asked people how well they could manage a business conversation. I'm sure that the people who responded (more than 3500 in a…
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Let's talk about the power of networking… If you’ve spent the last several years becoming an amazing software developer, first let me just say that you're awesome. There are very few people on the planet (by percentage) that can make…
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In business everyone has an opinion I spent ten years starting software companies. It was such a different time that it barely holds any resemblance to today's environment of startups. But the one thing that hasn't changed, over the last…
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Want to grow your online business? If you talk to enough people today, when you want to grow your business, it almost sounds like there's a single strategy—Facebook ads. That just doesn't sound right, does it? But what do you…
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This is an open letter to the developer who spent a year developing a WordPress theme and couldn't sell it anywhere. An Open Letter to Chris Dear Chris, My name is Chris too. And that's not the only thing we…
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When it comes to new year planning, most people make resolutions. Resolutions that frankly fail within the first few weeks of the new year. So if you want to do new year planning the right way, I suggest you steer…
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How do you decide your next move? When I left Emphasys a few years ago, I knew I was making a jump into the WordPress ecosystem full time, and I was unsure of what that would look like. Thankfully my friend…
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Can we talk about insecurity for a second? What's the secret to your success? When I was speaking at the Double Your Freelancing Conference, I had lunch and dinner with several great freelancers. One of them, over the course of…
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I've been asked a lot recently about my next steps and what I'm pursuing. As I've answered the questions, I've seen a lot of eyebrows raise. I think it's mostly because of how I think about career planning. The best route…
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Everyone has ideas & plans. The difference between you and everyone else, I hope, is that you will act. You will create. You will go past the initial ideas and move towards the more critical part—the execution of the plans and the…
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