Tag Archive: business

Five Freelance Secrets You Don't Read About in Books

Before I took the plunge over the precipice of Steady Job Mountain, I did a lot of researching. I've read so many freelance and business books standing at a Barnes & Noble shelf that I find it's hard to read sitting down anymore.

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How's your follow-through?

Interesting comments on yesterday's post on Communication (thanks for participating!). It brought up some other stuff that I hadn't thought of. I want to expand on a question posted by Nathan Bowers: Wonder if just building postmortems into the project plan would be good, but typically it’s always just “on ...

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Get More Gigs Through Solid Communication

When I tell people that I illustrate for a living, they instantly get a picture in their noggin of what that means. I'm not homeless, don't smell too badly, and have at least some loose change in my pocket (I am also wearing pants), so they assume that I'm successful at it. They sometimes assume is ...

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A Blog is Re-born!

It was inevitable. I have a tendency to take something I'm passionate about and convert it into a global enterprise. Just ask my sister, who suffered through our simple lemonade stands which always morphed into lawn care and bike waxing... before the sugar was even completely mixed in.  I started this blog as an outlet for my ...

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