🤝 WordPress Jobs: The Post Status Job Board 💼 There are currently 22 Active Job Listings on the Board. We don’t have space for them all here, so be sure to check online too. ☀️ Employers: Get your job opening in front of many of the best and brightest members of the WordPress community. List…
Issue #456 “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.” — Jean Vanier, Community And Growth Howdy! Thinking about WordPress history lately in terms of business and product acquisitions, key investments and hires … it says A LOT about…
Beth Livingston of WP Roadmaps talks about project management for WordPress professionals from designers and developers to agencies.
Automattic enters the low-end website market Automattic this week announced that its “premium website building service” (which was in beta in fall 2020) is now officially accepting customer applications for “websites starting at $4,900 USD.” The announcement describes a turnkey service with a personal touch: “You’ll work with a dedicated engagement manager throughout the entire…
The 2020 WordPress Annual Survey is open — please take it. ☑️ The results from the 2019 survey have been shared, and there’s a lot to learn from them. What is striking is that very few people took the 2019 survey — only about 6,000 compared to 45,000 responses to the first survey of this…
In this episode, Brian interviews Carrie Dils — a self-employed entrepreneur — about using multiple channels to make a full time living, and giving up client work.
Itamar Turner-Trauring writes about why working fewer hours is better for you. It’s certainly a delicate balance, especially for freelancers. Working longer hours for an extended period of time will eventually result in burnout or mistakes (or both). Freelancers can be their own worst enemy, and it’s important to read reminders like these.
Sara Horowitz — who is the founder and executive director of the Freelancers Union — makes a compelling argument for how important freelancers are to the American economy. She highlights just how big the freelancer economy is: For better or worse, freelancing is becoming the new normal in America. There are now 53 million freelance…
A recent post on WPKube goes fairly in-depth on how to promote new WordPress products. Overall, it’s a pretty thorough guide, even if I don’t think every aspect of the guide is the best route. What I found interesting was that the author created a list of freelance writers that make the rounds in the…
I found the Freelance Toolkit landing page on Modern Tribe’s website today thanks to a Tweet from Tom Willmot: This is awesome: http://t.co/hjPxL2azH0 via @justlikeair — Tom Willmot (@tomwillmot) March 13, 2014 It’s apparently been around for a while, but this was the first time I’ve seen it. The toolkit is a presentation and a…
After talking with many small business owners over the years there is one constant, many are good at what they do but bad at business. This book as aimed at helping you be good at business.
Interesting perspective on how to stop juggling many client projects at a time. I know it’s been tiring me out.
Jesse Petersen has a strong opinion about what it would cost for him to leave freelance WordPress work to go back to an agency.
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