I finished reading Profit First earlier this month, and it feels like it’s going to be a game changer for my business budgeting. Highly recommended read if you’re trying to do better with your business finances.
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Referrals Are Luck
A salesperson once told me a new lead was “really lucky.” They were right, and also completely wrong. This post explores how luck fits into growing your business.
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The Big Rock Problem
If one client can cut your income in half, you don’t have a business. You have a dependency with nice invoices. This post exposes and frames this problem and how to work your way out of it.
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Stop Chasing Customers. Chase Multipliers.
Most sales advice points you toward customers. But the real leverage comes from the people who can put you in front of dozens of customers at once.
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The 40 Hour Work Week Is Sapping Your Best Employees. There’s A Better Way.
For many people (myself included), 40 hours a day is too much. I believe that we’re long overdue to shake up this work model, and using knowledge from my nearly 20 years in the workforce, both as an employee, and a business owner, I have come up with what I believe is a better way to measure success.
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So Long, DesignFrame!
Welp, I finally did it. 9 years of running my own little WordPress agency has finally come to a close. I have officially shut down the website, and have helped move my remaining clients onto their own platform. I’d be lying if I said that this goodbye is more sweet than bitter, honestly. DesignFrame was […]
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Alex Standiford
If you break a project into smaller phases instead of a single monolithic project, you keep your options open for both you and your client. I go into detail on the other reasons why most DesignFrame projects are kept small.
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Delegating Your WordPress Business Beyond Yourself
Learn the steps I took to set up my business so I could delegate anything from billing to entire programming projects to other freelance professionals.
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Alex Standiford
#NowPlaying “Okay, here’s what I’m going to talk about each day.” on @anchor: anchor.fm/s/aaea4c?at=17… #business #marketing
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Alex Standiford
#ListenTo “Why you should track your time. #business #freelance #entrepreneur #tipoftheday” ⚓ anchor.fm/w/A25CF2