The best answer you will hear, when negotiating, is No (find out why)No sets a boundary. And once you know why your clients says No to your proposal, you have a foundation to work off. Cutting price is not always the best approach.In this article, I will give you a serious edge when negotiating by […]
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Why is your boss giving you so much grief? Here’s why…
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Want to know a secret of how to make your clients say Wow!?Is it about bells and whistles?Do you do it by providing comb-bound booklets?Or is it about *really cool* slide masters when you do a powerpoint presentation?
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I am a Sony Fan, but if you are a true Sony brand aficionado then you won’t want to see this extremely funny video I found on YouTube. It’s a spoof news rip off which will split your sides! Check out the guy outside the store! To counter the balance, I did do a favorable
Not For Sony Fans… Read More »
My latest eBook ‘The 10 Habits of Highly Effective IT Professionals ‘ is out now. Beat colleagues to promotion… Become a top performer… Become highly paid… Impress your CIO… Build influence and authority…
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Do you get hung up on how much you earn? Is your salary the most important measure to you in terms of defining your success?For most people, that is true. We’re socially conditioned to think that way.Seth Godin recently published a post ‘The myth of big salaries (it’s all marketing) ‘ claiming that high salaries
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I’ve written before that if management was a true science, then there wouldn’t be so many books on the subject. Do a search on Amazon for management and you’ll see thousands of books on the subject. How do you pick books when there are so many to choose from?Hopefully, I’ll give you a start. I’ve
Lead Well and Prosper! Read More »
This is a burning question on the lips of many IT people who are out of work, or want to move on from a dead-end job. Should you take a role that you consider beneath your abilities and talents to get into the workplace again to put food on your plate?Most of us work hard
Should You Take a Lower-Level Job? Read More »
I just noticed that I’ve hit the 300 post mark. So it’s a landmark day. (Any excuse to break out some champagne). But what next?I started this blog in it’s current guise a year ago, and it’s been quite a journey. Like most bloggers, I started by dabbling, and then when onto rambling, progressed onto
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I could be setting myself up as a spam target now….In January of 2009, this blog received 1,455 comment spamming attempts, which my spam filter (Akismet) foiled. The most attempts in one day, so far, is 105. Thank God for spam filters!I’ve been lucky – nothing has gotten through yet. There are messages that don’t
No Spam For Me, Thanks Read More »
I get a number of emails each week (especially from students) asking what the best way is to get into IT. There is rarely a simple answer to this (everyone is different, and everyone’s situation is different) but there is one thing I do come back to often as a sure-fire way to create the
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So you’re a workaholic, and make yourself available (to yourself) 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Running a freelancing business is like breathing to you. Stop, and you believe you’ll die. Free lancing should be called slave lancing, shouldn’t it? This is a follow-on to my previous article: The 24×7 Freelancer Trap .
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This is the question many freelancers are asking at this time. We market for a simple reason. If our customers (existing and potential) don’t know we exist, what we do, and how we can benefit them, how will we get more work?Savvy freelancers like you know that marketing is a core function of your business.
Freelancers: How To Market Yourself in a Recession Read More »
Hi everyone! I’ve been tweaking the look and feel of my blog and during the process I wondered if I should consider a different theme entirely. What do you think? You can influence my design choice! Tell me what I should do to my theme. So, should I… Change the theme entirely? Any ideas to
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If the project you were busy working on has just been shelved then you might be feeling puzzled, frustrated or even angry. Sometimes, it doesn’t seem logical or even fair. It’s likely that your project has suffered the consequences of one of these 3 reasons:The excess of boom-times causes business leaders, in recession, to shelve
Canned Project? 3 Big Reasons Why Your Project Has Been Cancelled Read More »
No isn’t the dirty word. It isn’t the killer of deals, or the destroyer of business
Freelancing Negotiation: Start with No Read More »
It’s become the de facto means for people to tell each other what they’re having for lunch, or which movie they’re about to see. Not just that – it’s become a hotbed of activity for business and commercial purposes, favored by Internet Marketers, Bloggers and product developers to spread the word about their vittles.A growing
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I’d be lying if I said the recession isn’t a stressful time for many folks, or that it doesn’t cause us to go about our business with some ‘unusual behaviors’. There are things that we can do that won’t help our situation, even though it might feel a relief at the time. Below, you’ll see
Common Mistakes Made In A Recession, And How To Avoid Them Read More »
Just like permie employees, you rise from a long and restful sleep on a Sunday morning, put on some coffee, enjoy a long breakfast reading the newspaper, and then decide whether it’s the beach or the park for a day’s fun and relaxation with the kids. NO WAY JOSE! Instead, you slide out of bed
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Recession is as certain as death and taxes (I wish taxis were as certain on a cold winter’s night at 3am!). And guess what – so is the upturn. But who is talking about it yet?Good News people: according to McKinsey’s Quarterly Survey , we are getting close to the bottom of the trough we
Is It Time To Prepare For The Upturn? Read More »
‘Performance Review’, as a search phrase, accounts for over 60% of search-engine traffic to this site. A big topic for many people! Performance Reviews are a hot topic during this recession. Why? I contacted 50 readers and put that very question to them. What was the answer?The consensus – a lot of people are nervous
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