Sep
9
Employee or Partner ? – Why Employees Earn Less
September 9, 2008 | Comments Off
Good, responsible small business owners tend to want to share the whealth and success with their contractors and employees: sometimes even much more than the contractors and employees deserve. At least that is what I have observed.
At a particular point in time I was having an extremely profitable moment in my practice. An ex subordinate, [...]
Aug
26
I Think Therefore I Inc.
August 26, 2008 | Comments Off
By no means the title of the article means that those that don’t Inc don’t Think. It refers at how easy is to start your own business in a country founded by capitalist principles and values (even when we may be losing them in recent years).
Many people ask the same thing: How do I set [...]
Aug
1
The 80 Hour Work Week Myth
August 1, 2008 | Comments Off
I have heard so many people say they are hard-workers that do 60, 70, and even 80 hour weeks. Given the fact that weeks have 168 hours, and humans normally need around 50 to sleep, 20 to eat, and probably 20 more to do necessities like bathe, clothe, and go to the bathroom, an 80 [...]
Jun
7
A Problem Shared With The Landscaper
June 7, 2008 | Comments Off
This morning I woke up early to do pending work for one of my favourite customers. A few hours into it the roar from industrial landscaping equipment disrupted my concentration. My Landscaper and I have the same problem: The week doesn’t have enough days and the day doesn’t have enough hours. The amount of work [...]
May
23
Contractors: You Are Creating A Market
May 23, 2008 | Comments Off
When a full time employee goes on his/her own and starts selling his/her services there is one interesting thing that he provides the companies who may be interested in hiring them: A Market.
Big companies can’t offer services that they can’t deliver. But since the contractor offers to deliver services on their behalf, now they have access [...]
Apr
30
Charge Heavily For What You Know
April 30, 2008 | Comments Off
Charge Heavily For What You Know
…but give away what you do not know.
Often I am in a situation where I am called to provide advice and a satisfactory outcome to a situation where the Client doesn’t have the time or expertise to complete a task. I happily do the work: in my opinion faster and [...]
Apr
30
Creating a Market For Consultants
April 30, 2008 | Comments Off
I am currently offering services that are in higher demand than the available offer. That is fortunate for me, as you might expect that the law of Offer and Demand will be in my favor. In reality the macroeconomics law helps – but only if you can put it in a macro economy. [...]
Mar
26
MiddleMan and Providing Value
March 26, 2008 | 1 Comment
I am an independent IT consultant. I think there are fewer of those than the industry needs. The important word here is “independent“. To me, an independent consultant or contractor is someone who helps advance the interests of the end client.
Sooner or latter a consultant finds out that they need more resources [...]
Feb
28
Jelly! Casual Co-Working : Thinking about joining or creating one.
February 28, 2008 | Comments Off
I came across this novel idea of Jelly on Nevile’s Blog. It is about casually co-working. It is a concept oriented towards entrepreneurs and freelancers that do most of their work from a mobile workstation (a.k.a. Laptop). Very well suited for IT professionals, graphic artists, writers, and other people who can work [...]
Feb
7
Anes & Rincon : First Year LLC Anniversary
February 7, 2008 | Comments Off
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