by chatfielda | Freelancing
Getting new clients is hard. It takes time and energy and sometimes a fair amount of money. So, if there was a way to do all of it on autopilot, why wouldn’t you? Why wouldn’t you encourage people to come to you with their projects instead of the other way around? Too...
by chatfielda | Sales & Marketing
Having converted my business from a freelance gig to an agency in recent years, there are certain tools that I don’t always have. So, I occasionally use sites like RocketLawyer to produce new contracts and service agreements. This time around, I was given a free trial...
by chatfielda | Sales & Marketing
Social media is the future of search, in one form or another. Whether as a hub for users actually searching for each other (through things like Graph Search) or as a strong signal for classic search tools like Google and Bing, it’s important. So, most freelancers...
by chatfielda | Business Strategies
Occasionally a client asks me to take a book I’ve previously written and revise it or change the formatting for offline publication or use in one or another eBook format. It’s easy work and I’m always happy to do it (good excuse to listen to an audiobook while...
by chatfielda | Entrepreneurship
I run a small business. That means I do a lot of things. I don’t have any one role. Production, sales, marketing, accounting – I do a bit of all of it. Not all of it of course. Micah handles most of our marketing efforts, as well as our investments and new...
by chatfielda | Productivity
For years, one of the hardest things for me to do was stop working, sit still and do NOTHING. It was immensely hard, and I’m not a workaholic. I love being done early and thrive on doing laze-about things around the house, but for whatever reason, actually turning off...
by chatfielda | Goal Setting
Yesterday I wrote about one of my big personal goals for 2013. It’s a little silly, but in my experience, some of the best goals often are. So, it got me thinking – how come goals are so hard in the first place. Beyond the inherent nature of goals being worth...
by chatfielda | Goal Setting
If you asked me in July whether I thought New Year’s resolutions were a good idea, I’d probably say no. But, by the time January rolls around, the compounding factors of late-year nostalgia, the fresh start that is a new year and general peer pressure entice me to...
by chatfielda | Time Management, Work at Home
For years I’ve killed myself trying to find the perfect balance of working without driving myself into the ground. When I work too much I feel like I’m missing out on time with my family and when I’m not working I feel like I’m falling behind the people who grind...
by chatfielda | Entrepreneurship
One of my big projects for 2013 is a sort of ground level documentation and foundation-building for our business. In simpler terms, we’re running the business like freelancers and I want to change that. Since we kind of made things up as we went for years, there are a...
