I recently wrapped up a course for Learnable.com, all about project management for freelance developers. Here’s a preview: a lesson that’s applicable to all freelancers, covering managing your own projects–including how to avoid scope creep, communicating better via email, managing client feedback, and more. Enjoy! You can learn more about the course here, and if you want to […]
What separates productive people from business owners that are constantly stressed? This post is part of weekly feature, Workflow Wednesdays, that aims to find out, with a weekly post going in-depth on a specific part of a business owner’s workflow and what they do that makes it rock. Interested in being featured in a post? […]
This is the first post in the summer slump series – view all the posts & read the others here. Summer is a super-slow period for a lot of freelancers & businesses. People are traveling, people are vacationing, people can just be tuned out – which of course, means less business for you. This was on […]
This is a guest post from Tanja Gardner of Conscious Introvert Success. Let’s acknowledge up front that I’m NOT the world’s most organized person. Before I start talking about the miracle of systems, I want to acknowledge that I have a weird brain. You see, I love creating elaborate systems. Sticking to them though? That’s a very […]
This article was inspired by a question in a Facebook group I’m in: Anyone have awesome resources for gigs? I’m looking at dribbble, behance, coroflot and craigslist right now to fill the (very large) gap but it’s not happening. Any places you can point a designer with a mad open schedule would be really great! I’m […]
Getting referrals is every business owner’s wet dream. More clients and customers, without you having to actively beat the pavement looking for them? Yes, please. The problem that a lot of people run into is that they have no idea what to actually do to get referrals, so they just kind of put something like […]
I did something a little different with this week’s video post! Instead of reviewing a particular tool, I did a case study of one of my favorite online businesses, eShakti, and showed how systematizing & streamlining can work even with physical products. What you can learn from eShakti: Streamline your offerings as you grow, to […]
One of the questions I get a lot is: Michelle, how do you find all the awesome stuff you share in your newsletter? (Not on the newsletter? Missing out on those awesome links? Sign up to the right or at the bottom of this post!) It’s actually a pretty simple process – I made a […]
In May, I did a talk for RISE on Systems for Creative Entrepreneurs & thought y’all might be interested in seeing the results! Here’s the speaker reel from it (the talk with Q&A took up the full 90 minutes, so this is preeeetty condensed!): (video via Cuya Productions) Here’s pictures of the whiteboard after I […]
The last few months have been a bit rough over here at Chez Bombchelle. (Hence the radio silence here at the blog.) Nothing major – well, sometimes major, but nothing life threatening – and part of the bumpiness is that I was continuing to operate in systems that weren’t really a good fit, which led […]