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It was only Day 2 of the Gumroad Small Product Lab when I decided not to bother participating. No, it was late on Day 2, even! After signing up on Day 1, I hadn’t really decided to launch a product; signing up was driven more by curiosity than anything else. My hope…
When I launched my new podcasting book recently, I had a halfway-decent promotional plan mapped out. My mailing list would be the centerpiece, my Twitter account would dribble enticing podcasting quotes, hashtagged to capture attention from interested folk, my friends would RT me or post promotional tweets of their own,…
I am not a perfectionist. Let’s be clear about that up front, because it’s the first thing people always assume when talking about the long, slow, process I’ve gone through in my journey to launch a product; “Oh, Chris, if you weren’t such a perfectionist, you’d just slap something together…
I talk to a good number of freelancers/consultants, and I hear this same burning consulting question from a lot of people, both new and established: I understand you run a successful consulting business and was wondering if you have any “tips” regarding how to get clients? OK, here comes a “Constulants…
So, it turns out that Cogeian Systems turns 12 years old this month. I’ve decided to share some of my experience from these 12 years. Maybe it helps, maybe it doesn’t…but I hope it does. 1) Sometimes turning down work is a good idea. I am a firm believer that…
RJ from The Freelance Podcast was gracious enough to invite me on the show, hoping to share my 12 years of successful freelancing experience with his listeners. We get into a bit of the armchair psychology of being self-employed and maintaining persistence. We also discuss the “maker” mentality, both the…
So, 2014 was a big year for me, but not in the ways one wants a year to be big. I had planned on moving from consulting to product sales, but it didn’t happen. In short, the year can be summarized (at a very high level) thus: 1) Made a bunch of…
Very often, I will receive an e-mail from a developer hoping to go out on his own, asking “What is needed to get started in consulting?” Let me begin by telling you what is *not* needed: Permission! I say this up front because a lot of people who are otherwise…
Yesterday I had the privilege of spending 9 hours working from The Hashtag (@Hashtag_Fresno), a co-working/collaborative workspace located in Fresno. It was both enjoyable and stimulating, and I came away with the sense that I had just spent 9 hours looking at a blueprint for the eventual standard workplace of…