I was just listening to a shiur by Rav Assaf Bednarsh, delivered via KMTT podcast from Yeshivat Har Etzion. He made a comment that chulents tend to be only 10% meat. Perhaps I’m missing the point of the shiur, but I’d like to have Rav Bednarsh over to my house for shabbat. When I was …
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Search Engines for All: Part 1
Until about 25 years ago, the word search meant moving around furniture and cushions for hours, or maybe spending days driving all around. In short, it was a time-consuming, exhaustive process, called in as a last resort when all else failed. With the boom of computer usage and the Internet, searching became much more popular …
Creating Your First Invoice
This is another link-posting. Web Worker Daily has published this article about invoicing your clients. While I’m tempted to copy-paste the whole article, it’s worth clicking over to read the great comments left by their readers. One that jumps out is this one: Our new policy, which is becoming industry standard, is to charge half …
Bad Advertising
I’m doing research online, and I came across an ad (despite my ad blocker) that made me a little uneasy in my tummy. Here’s the text: Now even the CEO can edit the company Website! It’s no surprise that advertising is often misleading, making false implications like "Use our product, and you can get the …
Yet more Freelancing Advice
Taken from FreelanceSwitch. Collected freelance advice from their forums: Unnikrishna Whether it is a small job or a big project, before i start working on it i realised i have to get a written creative brief approved (bullet points will do). If the client does not know how to brief me then after the first …
Happy Birthday Gary
Instead of an e-card, this year I’ll share a few wishes and blessings and what hopefully won’t be taken as unsolicited advice, but some ideas for successful businesses based on principles I’ve recently learned. As we’ve stated previously, an idea is only as good as its execution. This year, you will: Meet the perfect girl, …
The Price of Advice
According to Wikipedia: Web hosting is a service that provides Internet users with online systems for storing information, images, video, or any content accessible via the web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. …
Getting Started: Be a Little Greedy
So you’re ready to join the freelancer’s lifestyle, landing your own projects, setting your own hours, billing the clients. There can be a lot of overhead, planning, and stress involved in this process. Take a deep breath – it doesn’t have to be so frightening. Just set yourself some ground rules and you’ll be fine. …
Yet Another Reason to Build a Case for Telecommuting
Taking a lazy day and reprinting this article from Web Worker Daily: Yes, we know. We’re preaching to the choir. Do you really need another justification for your web worker lifestyle? Yes, you do. Business continuity and disaster preparedness (or COOP in government-speak, short for “continuity-of-operations program”) is yet another great reason to foster a …
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