Happy Freelancing — How to Know When You and the Client Are Not a Good Fit
While being half a world away from a difficult client may give you an advantage over an employee who works 10 feet ... Read More
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Project Rescue: How to Save a Sinking Ship
You may be asking yourself, We’re already sinking, why does it matter which iceberg we hit? Okay, I’ll admit the ... Read More
GTD for Web Project Management Revisited
In this article I’d like to simply let you know about the tool I’m currently using for my GTD system. ... Read More
10 Free Project Management Applications
How do you make sure that you get all of your work done on time?
As freelancers, we wear many different ... Read More
20 Ways to Streamline Your Web Business
If I told you that there are twenty different ways you can streamline your web design business, make more money ... Read More
How Social Media Changes Project Management
Bas de Baar, Josh Nankivel and Cornelius Fichtner raised an interesting question during their presentation at the PMI Global Congress. ... Read More
5 Simple Tips for Improving Designer-Client Relationships
Good business relationships rarely just happen. While a smitten designer and their starry-eyed client may start out well with a ... Read More
How To Find the Right Freelancer for Your New Project
So, you’re thinking about hiring a freelancer to build your website or write your copy or design your new logo, ... Read More
How to Find Meaning In Your Work
You have days when there just seems no point to what you’re doing – where it all feels futile or ... Read More
Living on the Edge of Incompetence
If you accept the first premise: that mastery is an essential ingredient to successful living. And, you accept the second ... Read More
Power Round
How to Deal with Project Failure
It is a fact of life that not every project succeeds. Sometimes the market changes and the product is no ... Read More
Project Management Principles Need To Have Units of Measure
PM Hut has a list of Project Management Principles. Good stuff, but no units of measure. How would we know ... Read More
Is ‘John the client’ stupid or are you failing him?
Meet John the client. John runs a reasonably large website. He is a marketeer who considers himself smart, articulate and ... Read More
Overcoming Project Management Super Villains
Delivering our profession often requires super-human effort and, as we all know, a super hero is only as good as ... Read More
Project Timelines – And The Lies We Tell
After years of project implementation in practically every field, the project time-line is the one thing that is consistently messed ... Read More
20 Great Project Management Tools
Project Management is often defined as the science of organizing, planning and managing the available resources of a particular organization ... Read More
Mastering the Art of Client Relations
Do you feel like you understand what they need and want? Would you rate your communication with your clients as ... Read More
Do you over-deliver?
If you are an individual contributor on a project now, are you the kind of team member that everyone loves ... Read More
What to Do When the Client Is Wrong
Sooner or later most freelancers will have the pleasure of working with a client who seems to have forgotten why ... Read More
How to Close Out Your Project or the Joys of Closing Beautifully…Part 1
What is your favorite part of the project lifecycle?
Some project managers love openings and pulling it all together. Others love ... Read More