Make Your Web Site Count

Update: Along with changing the name of my business from The Web Shop to Site Potion, the Make Your Web Site Count blog now lives at http://www.sitepotion.com/blog.

I recently started a new blog, Make Your Web Site Count, that targets small business owners with web sites. The focus of the posts are helping non-technical people get [...]

Best Practices Makes the Top 100

I didn’t even know there were 100 blogs about freelancing to compile, but Bootstrapper has come out with a Top 100. They aren’t ranked in any meaningful way. (I’m #45, and A List Apart is #46.) They are grouped by industry, though, so you can focus on the selected blogs in writing, [...]

Tracking Your Activities with a Free Online Tool

Not too long ago I took a training course for business owners. The focus was on intelligently developing relationships with other business owners with whom you can refer business back and forth. The key to making this work is to appropriately feed and water these relationships. If you take the right actions, you can have [...]

Startup Weekend Epilogue

I previously posted about Bloomington Startup Weekend. Before I get too far into this I should disclose that I did not stay for the entire weekend. The event started at about 6pm Friday night and was scheduled to end Sunday at 11pm. I left at about 4:30pm on Saturday. Why did [...]

Startup Weekend

Today I registered for Startup Weekend. The premise is a bunch of adventurous people get together for a weekend. Provided only with facilities and internet connectivity, we’re given 52 hours to come up with an idea for a web site-based business and get it up and running. All the participants have an ownership share in [...]

Sorry, Gang

Any post I wrote this week would just be about how bad it sucks to have pneumonia. Hopefully the antibiotics will have me back in composing shape next week.

Generate New Ideas With a Big, Big List

A few days ago I ran across a mental exercise that I haven’t done in a few years. I have a feeling it was mentioned in one of the RSS feeds that I subscribe to. I wish I could remember where I saw it because they deserve a nod, but my mind is [...]

Even Idle Computers Sip Electricity

This coming Monday is Blog Action Day, an event designed to get bloggers to make posts about environmental responsibility. I am jumping the gun a little bit, but since I usually only post once a week this seems like the best way to make sure I have an appropriate post up on the 15th.

Look Back: Best of Practices

Since I’ve hit the one-year anniversary of being a full-time freelancer, it seems like a fitting time to look back on this blog. Enjoy some of my favorite best practices posts:
Pricing Your Web Design Service
I wrote in this post that I prefer to give clients a fixed price per project, and that’s still true [...]

What’s Holding You Back?

When I look at the comments people have left on this site, it seems like a lot of readers are where I was a little over a year ago. You have a job in a cublicle somewhere that’s not very fulfilling. Part of you really likes the idea of striking out on your [...]