News, updates, bloggish stuff, but mostly just selfies.
What Are You Selling In A Creative Project?
When it comes to creative endeavors, buyers often look at the transaction as though they’re just buying the painting or the design or the article, the website, or the application. That isn’t explicitly true – what they’re really paying for is your time and your expertise.
What is Scope Creep?
Scope creep is an uncontrolled growth in the scope of a project. This happens because of an unclear initial scope of work which is then added to with a lack of checks and balances in project management processes.
How To Avoid 95% of UPSET Clients
Positive option: When you always get approval on every single thing, every single time that request is made, and you have an initial scope of work document, you’ll almost never run into major scope creep issues.
Negative option: If it wasn’t in your contract, now the client’s upset, because they feel like they’re not getting what they’re paying for, and you’re upset because you feel like you’re working too hard for the amount of money that you’re making.
What Are The Parts Of A Website, Application, or SaaS Scope Of Work?
A Scope of Work or SOW for a website, web-app, mobile-app, application, or software-as-a-service (SaaS) has a few specific aspects which we're coving in today's article. These are the: Contract Creative brief Information architecture (IA) Project flows or wireframes...
The Value Approach to Closing Sales
I had the opportunity today to meet with an old friend of mine, also an avid BrainLeaf user about his sales process. He wanted to know about my sales process, because he was getting tons of leads coming in, but he was having a hard time closing them. The Needs, The...
Harvest vs. Toggl: Time-Tracking Tools Battle For Best!
So you may have seen in our last post that recently we moved from Toggl over to Harvest in the last few weeks. Years ago, we used to be on Harvest as well, but moved off for various reasons. Over the years, we've gone back and forth on a lot of this. We've used a lot...
Track Your Time!
People sometimes hate tracking their time, but you HAVE TO DO IT!
Thinking Before Doing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxV1KULezdc When you're running an agency, or really any business for that matter, it's almost always mid to high-level stress. Which is why you NEED to think about your strategies and execution before acting. The business is busy, and...
Does Your Routine Own You?
After years of working this routine, I realized that it had taken hold of my left and I was afraid of letting go of it. My routine had captured me, and when I realized it, I started working on my escape plan.
When You Do and Do Not Need An Office
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEb2CMfI_g0 As you've probably realized, right now I don't have an office. My companies are fully remote. It didn't start like that though. Here's the story... Going fully remote is something that happened slowly over the course of...
