Note: This interview is from early April. RJ from The Freelance Podcast was invited me on the show again, this time to talk a problem many of us freelancers share – conflict with clients! We talk about how freelancers get themselves into conflict with clients, how some clients are trouble…
Christopher Hawkins
I like you, client, you’re what makes it possible to do what I love for a living. But I also respect you; you either own a business or occupy a high-enough managerial position within a business to have the authority to hire my team and I, which means you’re all…
It’s a valid question – how good do your programming skills need to be (and how much does that matter) in the world of freelancing? The Question: Do you need to be a really good programmer to make a living freelancing? How advanced does a programmer need to be in…
It’s a hazard of the profession – sometimes a client will try to weasel out of payment. The Question A client did not pay me for software work. What should I do? I created a tax website for a client of mine recently. He used my server for all his…
Turn down freelance work? Isn’t that crazy talk? No! Here’s how to turn down freelance work, without offending anyone and without burning any bridges.
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…