The primary goal of any ecommerce website is to sell. Sure, the overall impression, attractive product images, and convincing descriptions do their job.But are you sure you made everything to develop a navigation that helps to sell more? Very often whether the visitor buys on your website or takes their wallet elsewhere depends on how easy and fast finding a product is. Internet users are busy people, and unless they are devoted fans of your…
Self-discipline is somewhat of a dirty two-word phrase to most people. When they hear it, they think of restriction, inability to do what they want and other unpleasant thoughts. In reality, self-discipline is needed in many areas for people who largely work alone. The vast majority of freelancers work alone in a home office, in a café or restaurant, or lately in co-working offices (invariably with earphones in their ears to get some peace) from…
It may be that you’ve never been that good at staying productive, or you may have been like the “little engine that could” in the office, but since you’ve gone freelance, the wheels have come off the train. Either way, don’t despair. It’s not an uncommon problem to have. Sitting in your home office with no boss looking over your shoulder and many distractions (the kids, sports on TV, digital content on your laptop), it…
Unless you had the boss from hell or a job where you never stopped and you couldn’t catch your breathe for 10 hours a day, then it is quite difficult to actually burnout on the job. For freelancers though, we are often handling all aspects of our little (or not so little) businesses. We often do everything from the creative work to chasing bills to marketing to doing the books. Quite often there is no…
It is fair to say that when freelancers get together we do a fair amount of complaining about bad clients that have made work life more difficult than needed. The few who failed to pay. The ones who were unclear on objectives, then blamed you. In terms of understanding when you have a good client on your hands, here are some key traits to look out for. Key Traits of Decent Clients 1. Clear communication.…
It’s time to purify – so let’s remove contaminants from your WordPress performance strategy. But, is it essential? Well, who doesn’t want a good page speed? How quickly your website loads is an important part of search engine optimisation. We can say that 30% of the websites can run successfully on WordPress. Because you are running a website by WordPress with several heavy loaded featured plugins there is always a chance that your site may…
The decision to take the leap into the freelance world is a big one. It can be softened by going part-time at first, but almost everyone has to get over the initial step of finding their first few clients (except those previously in the corporate world who brought some clients with them). Getting started presents different challenges for different types of freelancers. For freelance writers, they need examples of previous writing (preferably live published samples…
Being able to escape from a previous employer with their office in a single location to a more flexible arrangement is the ideal scenario for those people who are stuck in a cubicle dreaming of being free. Next to being able to retire and move to wherever they want, being able to live location independently is really the next best thing. If you are interested in freelancing, then it is important to build up contacts,…
X is a completely different kind of premium theme for WordPress. Theme.co, the people behind the theme, pulled in some of the best industry experts to consult on what their most desired features for a WP theme were and then set about designing the X theme to match these ideals. Learn more about the last WordPress theme you’ll ever have to buy. Design Evolution The theme itself has a design element that is different from…
When thinking about pricing, in many ways it doesn’t get easier until you are much more established with a staple of long-term reliable clients and good pricing rules set. For new freelancers though, pricing is often a minefield filled with uncertainty, self-doubt and concern about what is the correct fees to levy. This article is here to help with these matters and to provide some price guidelines to aid in setting sensible prices for freelance…