It’s a little bit late, but here it is: the August recap! How I spent my time: In August, I tracked just shy of 125 hours, a 22 hour increase from July, which breaks down to about 30 hours a week. The fact that I logged more hours than July is fairly impressive considering that […]
May 16th was the last day at my day job, almost exactly three months ago. When I left, my salary was $47,500, which converted to a take-home pay of about $3,300 a month. My projected income for August is roughly $3,700…which means that, come end of August, I should have replaced or exceeded my day […]
I wasn’t going to keep doing behind the scenes/monthly recap posts but last month’s got a fair amount of positive feedback, so I thought I’d keep going! How I spent my time: As you can see, I tracked 103 hours on the nose in July – which breaks down to about 25 hours/week. Towards the […]
Here’s an interesting confession for someone who now makes (at least part of) her living doing content marketing: I used to think I sucked at marketing. Like, really bad. Why did I think I was terrible at marketing? I’ve thought about it since then and I think the main thing was that I equated marketing […]
There’s a phenomenon that drives me batty. I’m not sure if it’s caused by the rampant personal development market based around money blocks or what, but here’s what happens: Freelancer/entrepreneur decides they want to make more money They set a goal of $X/month They bust their asses trying to reach the goal and…fall short They can’t […]
Not only have I been quoted at a couple of pretty awesome places as a resident expert and managed to get in Entrepreneur magazine last year, I have also worked HARO from the other side in getting quotes to use for articles at Grasshopper or KISSmetrics. You know what I can tell you? Most people are […]
In case you’re new around here, one week from today is the two monthaversary of me returning to self-employment/freelancing/whatever. I got super, super burned out on working for myself, got a “real job”, spent almost exactly six months (closer to 6.5 months) working at a real job, and then returned to self-employment for a myriad of reasons. […]
As you may be aware, in mid-May I had the last day at my full time job and I went back to being a full-time self-employed person. Given that this came with fresh eyes (I’m going to do a post on things I learned by getting a job, eventually), and also came with a pivot in […]
“I can hardly keep up with my own blog, why should I write for someone elses’ site?” “I have to send in original content for a guest post? Why would I write something new?” And my personal favorite, as discussed last week: “Why should I work for free? I have to put money in my hands […]
Today I’m beating the business community’s favorite dead horse: working for free. TL;DR: Never try to get free work from people. And don’t work for free. Except for on rare occasions, when you actively choose to. Confused? It’ll all become clear: Uncomfortable truth #1: If your business needs free labor to grow, your business model is broken. […]