We have all seen sales tactics in third-party software for job sites “protecting” freelancers from clients and clients from freelancers, but today’s scenario was worthy of a blog post. While scrolling over a prospective new client’s offered email address on a third-party’s website, a message popup “warned me” about contacting my client directly and offered: […]
How can you bring your enticing, well-prepared story to the attention of more prospective readers? Your author’s website is your storefront, and the world is full of story shoppers. At the same time, not all window shoppers become readers, and it takes more than just exposure and savvy pricing. Highly specialized markets require specific language […]
Today’s Internet is an essential part of our modern world. Most people need Internet access every day in both their personal and professional lives. The Internet makes it possible to communicate with friends and colleagues, sell and buy goods, use banking services, and much more. When we talk about the Internet, we are talking about […]
For those of you who have always been told, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know,” this post is for you! We all want our work to be compensated for its value provided. Making sure that your investment of time and knowledge is met with reward is not always easy in markets driven […]
Top quality novel and book editing is done most efficiently when an editor understands and can generalize methods used by those who specialize in process development. Test-driven development, or “drafting” over and over, gained popularity among software developers and project managers as a means of building quality assurance before beginning to build any product. This […]
A while back, I blogged about many third-party vendor inefficiencies (also listed below) that cause clients to pay more for the same services obtained here. Yes, I sell my services both directly here and through a third-party vendor, obtaining the same compensation through either method. Occasionally for the first couple of weeks, clients like having […]
The number of passwords used through the average course of a single day can be mind-numbing. Enter into a discussion about biometrics, and everyone has an opinion. Will biometrics make life easier, or is it the sign of the devil as we enter the future era of a cashless society? The eternal controversy of ‘security […]
Learning about available technology is like moving through a never-ending funnel of information. Who is keeping pace with all of this technological change? Certainly, information warehouse giants have plenty of stored big data. Individual information bits are indexed and can be brought up with a simple search. This data supports new movements of active use […]
Engineers are innovators: They are regularly designing something new, fixing things already built, or testing things and processes to ensure they work as expected. Complicated projects that engineers typically work on often require large capital investments, forcing engineers to work for investors and managers instead of directly for customers. Crowdfunding is changing all of this. […]
Twenty years ago, who would have thought that people would come to trust sensitive machines? Dating back further than Milgram’s 1960 experiments, the automation of large-group compliance has been studied and followed. Trust-building phenomena, although initially thought to develop out of delicate emotional processes, has been extensively researched and broken down into process components by […]