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Welcome to Best Practices. I run a freelance web development business, and this is where I share what I've learned and the mistakes I've made along the way. Some of it applies specifically to web development, but a lot of it is just about hanging out my shingle and running a business. If you have any questions, fire away.
Apr 23rd, 2008
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 [...]
Apr 16th, 2008
You might have heard the holy grail of entrepreneurship is to have multiple streams of income. The idea is that if any of those revenue sources dry up, you won’t take much of a financial hit because you’ve got money coming from other sources. That is 100% true, but there’s a dark underbelly to managing [...]
Apr 9th, 2008
You have a lot of information locked up in your skull. Think about it. How often do you come across a web site and think to yourself the person in charge of this could make it 500% better if they just made a few simple changes? That’s unique information that you have and they don’t. [...]
Apr 2nd, 2008
It seems I hear a lot of stories about workaholic entrepreneurs. They spend 80 hours a week working on their business, and the few hours left over each week goes to their friends and family. I’m the exact opposite. I think.
Mar 26th, 2008
When I was first starting this company, I wasn’t really sure what I was doing. I had the technical chops to build web sites, but I didn’t know much about running a business. Sales? Budgeting? I was just proud that I had completed the paperwork so that the state of Indiana recognized me as a [...]
Mar 19th, 2008
I went to bed last night with a killer headache centered right behind my eyes. Perhaps I shouldn’t have been surprised since I had spent almost every waking hour of the past 4 days staring into my monitor as though it displayed the secret of eternal happiness and life everlasting. (It doesn’t.) The reason I’ve [...]
