The top reason why an open source shopping cart is so attractive is price. When you’re starting your online store, you expect to have some startup costs associated with that process. However, if you’re looking for a proprietary shopping cart solution that won’t break the bank, you’re hard pressed to find it, especially when you look at the initial set up fees, transaction fees, and maintenance charges that come with them. With an open source…
When I started my consulting business, I had no idea that there was a service like FreshBooks out there to help me manage my time and invoice my clients. Instead I did everything using Word, and it was a huge pain. I would often save over old invoices and never had a good pulse on how much money was coming in versus going out. Plus clients would take forever to pay me (anyone else still…
With the passage of time, more and more people are moving away from desktop onto mobile-optimized websites even for shopping products. Mobile eCommerce experience is an important matter to talk about as it has been found that 67% of people are more likely to make a purchase if their favourite websites can be accessed from their Smartphones. Therefore, designers are using established design patterns to Kickstart a mobile eCommerce project. Significant development with the mobile…
When evaluating WordPress Hosting, I tend to think like most bloggers. The most important features I’m looking for are: 1. Dependability of service 2. How easily I can get my blog up and running 3. Support capabilities These are all important features, but there’s one feature that is actually just as important, and in most cases more important than the rest; hosting speed. If you’re not concerned about the speed of your site, you’re doing…
Web designing, the web that has caught on many designers, is indeed an ever changing world. Every year, something new catches up with this world that you as a web designer would want to know about. This year, web designers, have a lot of things to wait up for. Many of the trends from last year would be carried forward this year as well, while there are some exciting trends that are coming up this…
Social networks are all different. Gone are the days when everyone was on MySpace or Facebook or Twitter. Social media is now splintering out more into niche areas where there’s a social site for everything. This means we have more social channels to monitor or participate in discussions therein, but it also opens up the possibility to connect to potential buyers in a non-threatening way, so it’s not all bad. Why Join LinkedIn? LinkedIn is…
For a beginning freelancer, it may be a little impossible to see a time when you can begin to turn down work. Maybe even it makes you feel incredulous. But in many ways, one of the signs of a top freelancer is that they are turning down work for range of different, very sensible, reasons. In this post, we run through some of the most common situations you can run into where you might be…
Being a freelancer is not always a case of saying yes and complying to every request that a client or prospective client comes up with. After all, some of the requests can be wrong or even inappropriate. In the bid to simply outsource whatever they need, some of the tasks can be a little odd. This partly depends on what sort of freelancer you are. A social media specialist may get more unusual requests than…
Freelancing is not for everyone. It can start off as a nice idea to be able to escape the cubicle once and for all (rather than just finding a job with another company sitting in another cubicle). Or you think that you have that independence streak and want to strike out on your own. Burning Bridges & Cannot Go Back Wanting it and being suitable to it are two entirely different things. Sometimes it’s just…
Co-working agreements, partnering up and outsourcing to other freelancers while charging more so you can take a cut of their action are all different ways of partnering up. Sometimes they all amount to the same thing – working with other freelancers – and at other times they are more of an actual partnership. Other than setting up a full legal operation as some kind of partnership in your jurisdiction, the line between freelancer and partner…