Hire an assistant. Now!

When we started the company, there were three of us. The other two guys did the bulk of the design/development and I did some development, but mostly I ran the business. I spoke with all prospects, I managed all projects, dealt with accounting… all of it. Then earlier this year, one of those guys left…

Today, we work on us

I’m sure you’ve heard the proverb “The shoemaker’s children are often shoeless”, right? When you are running a service based business, it’s inevitable; you are going to wake up one day and realize that everything about your business is out of date. Your website has 6 month old pricing, your brochures have photos of products…

No new ideas Thursdays

I just finished watching this Ted talk given by Jason Fried (co-founder of 37signals) titled; Why work doesn’t happen at work. This talk really hit home. For the final couple of years at my previous job we had enough meetings to make sure that it would be virtually impossible for people to get much done….

Working from home, month 1

Has it really been a month already? Wow, that was fast! Working for myself from home has been really interesting. Before making the leap I spoke with many people about it. Everybody has their own concerns & ideas about what goes on when you work from home. Some are pretty accurate, some not so much….

Moving day at work

It’s been about a year and a half since I had an office at work. When I was first moved out of my office I truthfully said that it didn’t bother me. Working in a cube (or the crazy shaped desks we have at the office) hasn’t really bothered my at all.They are a little…

The end of week one

This has been quite a week. Prior to this week it had probably been more than a year since I had needed to stay late at work. So far this week I’m 5 for 5 on staying late. Don’t get me wrong, this is by no means a complaint. To be quite honest, even though…

A New Challenge

Last week I received a promotion at work and am now the Director of Online Marketing. Sounds pretty fancy, huh? So, what does it mean? For starters it means that I have probably just given up my nights and weekends for the next 4-8 weeks while I dive in and get my hands around everything I have…