by Amber Turrill | Nov 2, 2015 | Freelancing, Personal Stuff, Productivity
I’m a big fan of this guy named Don Dalrymple. He’s my business coach and he’s also a pretty rad friend for several years now. I’m lucky that we’ve been involved in each other’s lives pretty tightly over the past year or so....
by Amber Turrill | Oct 5, 2015 | Best Practices, Freelancing, Productivity
People lie. Numbers don’t lie. This is the universal truth when it comes to working with a marketing person. I can spend hours on the phone going through your marketing and telling you how great I am, but if I don’t leave you with some numbers and some...
by Amber Turrill | Sep 30, 2015 | Amberamblings, Freelancing
My business coach is trying to get me to think more about what I want to do with my business. Over the past month, the way I think about my future has changed a good bit. It’s not always easy to figure out what you DO want – and for this reason, he’s asked me to...
by Amber Turrill | Sep 25, 2015 | Best Practices, Freelancing, Personal Stuff, Productivity
Productivity is a science. We tend to think there’s a magic button that can be pushed or a sequence of rituals stitched together that will somehow make us all beasts. Or hyper productive robots who are fully on when we’re on. Especially after the last month, getting...
by Amber Turrill | Aug 12, 2015 | Freelancing, Management
A few months ago, I received a request for consultation from a mid-sized marketing agency that wanted to outsource PPC. Requests like this come in occasionally, so I talked with the principal about the different kinds of marketing I do and what I would have to offer....
by Amber Turrill | Sep 2, 2014 | Freelancing, Management
So I’m pretty much in love with this app. And when I say pretty much, I mean whoever at that company put this app up on Facebook, I might actually find you and take you out to dinner. Contracts are a HUGE problem for freelancers. This is particularly true if you...
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