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📅 August 20, 2018 Become a Better Developer ⏱ 4 minutes read

The Value of Sales Skills for IT Workers

Much like marketing, sales skills are useful to everyone. This is also an area that is pervasive throughout life. It has far more than just business applications. There are two sides to sales. The…

📅 August 20, 2018 Podcast ⏱ 3 minutes read

Side-hustle Arguments – Pros and Cons

There are not a lot of articles that include side-hustle arguments. All of the ones I come across start from the position of any side-hustle being a good thing. Then, the story shows us how to…

📅 August 17, 2018 Create a Small Product ⏱ 3 minutes read

The Product Launch – Shipping Your Software Product

We wrap up the season on building a small software product with tasks and recommendations for getting the product to a market. This is also called the product launch. Of course, what the market…

📅 August 15, 2018 Get Started With Online Consulting ⏱ 3 minutes read

Completing Your Consulting Project

This is the last episode in our consulting project side hustle series. We wrap up the season with a look at how to end our project and wrap it up (for now at least). …

📅 August 13, 2018 Become a Better Developer ⏱ 4 minutes read

Communication Noise vs. Content

Related to the idea of white space that we covered in the prior post is its enemy, noise. The level of communication noise has grown by leaps and bounds over the last few decades. …

📅 August 13, 2018 Create a Small Product ⏱ 3 minutes read

Creating Commercial Software – Finishing Touches

Our goal has been to create a small commercial software product, and we are rapidly getting to the end of our journey. Creating commercial software does require us to do some additional work over…

📅 August 10, 2018 Create a Small Product ⏱ 3 minutes read

Implementation Details – Wrapping up Our Software Product Creation

In this episode, we look at the final pieces we need to code as part of building our product. Many of these steps have already been taken partially, if not completely. However, it is…

📅 August 8, 2018 Get Started With Online Consulting ⏱ 3 minutes read

Working The Project – Consulting Success

Winning a project is only half the battle. For true consulting success, you must follow through with your plan and exceed expectations where possible. There is not a single approach that works for every…

📅 August 6, 2018 Become a Better Developer ⏱ 5 minutes read

Using White Space To Make Your Point

The Power Of White Space One of the common mistakes I see from IT workers (and I know I have done this as well) is a lack of using white space appropriately. I am…

📅 August 6, 2018 Create a Small Product ⏱ 2 minutes read

Building Out Your Application From a Demo

It is time for building out your application. You have a core engine for solving the main problem and a clickable demo to show off the user experience. Those provide the skeletal structure of…