If you had time to do it twice, there was time to do it right the first time. But if it has to be done twice, make sure that the person doing it the second time is the same person who sees the need to redo it in the first place.
I don’t have an iPhone or a Blackberry, and I don’t want one. My cellphone can’t receive text messages, let alone images or video messages. If someone needs to reach me urgently, then they call me. If it’s not that urgent, an email will reach me fairly quickly. I like it that way. It comes […]
When looking at your career path, make sure that the stops and pauses along the way are long enough to gain the benefits and lessons of the stop, but not so long that you appear to have become a permanent fixture there.
Much of my work is done through colleagues – for example, I have a few graphic artists that I can hire on a regular basis, some SEO specialists, marketers, branding consultants, web developers, and so on. While I can do some of all this work myself, most of my clients need a combination of experts […]
I have a simple guarantee with my business, one which has cost me a fair bit. Over time, I’ve come across a few other businesses with the same type of guarantee, and I prefer to give them my business. The long and short of it is that I eat my mistakes. What I tell my […]
I was chatting with someone a week ago, and he mentioned to me the price he was paying for a particular service. As it happened, I know the amount of effort involved in doing that kind of work, and raised some surprise at the price he was paying – it was about 5 times the […]