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I Will Be Exploring Freelancers
It’s time to shift my focus a little again, back to projects, code and campaigns. I am just this close to having the theme done for my other blog. And then I will using all the things I learned at this blog to get some visitors over at that one.
I have noticed when I do this, that the language I use in my blog posts change also. It becomes more matter of fact. I use less complex sentences.
For a few weeks now I haven’t done much except blog. The weekends where I would normally get caught up on those things that move this business forward a little got filled with other things. I had to get my taxes and house refinance down and slack a little, of course.
So bear with me as my language may turn as black and white as the code I am looking at currently. It does that. And I have to deal with the language that comes with the hat I am wearing at the time.
But I am going to force myself to outsource. I will be finishing the theme customisations myself, but all I have a few plugins that I may either sell or use to promote the site. A few for this blog. A few for the other. I know this is a bottleneck, no matter how much I tell myself it isn’t.
The theme I have to finish at this point because it would take just as long to explain what I want as to do the rest myself. But I know as soon as I get to a plugin, I will cruise along for a while, thinking "It would be stupid to outsource", and then I will hit a bug. One of those bugs that you look at for a hour and when you find it, you realize it was stupid to miss it for that long.
CSS does this to me for god’s sake. PHP gets me beating my head against the wall every once and a while. I have never finished a project in the time I thought it would take. Right now, the control freak tells me I could. The control freak is stupid. He steers me into a lot of dead ends.
So that is my goal. Make a concerted effort to hire someone else for the job. I want to get closer to my final goal of just writing posts and visiting other blogs, slowing finding ways to make the time spent doing other things shorter. The plugins I have in mind will help with this and hiring someone to write them will help even more.
And if I find myself wavering a little, I will pick up The Four Hour Workweek and read a little further next weekend also.
And, of course, I will be writing posts about it. But if any of you have some pointers be sure to leave some comments. And I have already found a guy for graphics over at Funk13 that I would recommend.
7 Responses to I Will Be Exploring Freelancers
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This is a great goal. I had an awful time getting started on working with freelancers for my side projects, but once I worked with a couple of good ones, I was hooked. I would never go back to trying to do everything myself. I love having the extra time and still being able to generate a good side income.
I’ll just be getting my feet wet. Hopefully it shouldn’t be too hard, since most of the things I will be hiring out for would be projects I could do myself if I had the time.
When you said “I have noticed when I do this, that the language I use in my blog posts change also. It becomes more matter of fact. I use less complex sentences.” it helped me with something that I was undecided about.
I know this is off-topic a bit and I wish you the best with your changes..
But recently I was asked to write a blog post for a reputable search site. I drafted it, then asked someone for their opinion before deciding to submit. (I still haven’t submitted it..eek!) I asked if it was ‘offbase’..My friends reply was, “No, not offbase. It was very good, but you talked differently than you usually would.” I thought I would cry. I am growing with times and my knowledge base has been expanding. So naturally, my language is expanding as well. I am better known in the SEO world as the girl that blogs ‘happy place’ SEO – SM stuff, but this post was a chance to express a few viewpoints that are important to me in a different environment / setting. How will it be received if the only reason I was asked to write for them was to show that ‘happy place’ side? I’m not sure what to do..but at least when I read what you wrote, I see that I am not alone with variations of language when writing on various subjects..It was validating in a small way.
Thanks and good luck
Kimberly
That is one of the reasons I don’t stick strictly to topic on posts. I pulled in everything I can that effects the post. I hate cut and dried posts. It really does help validate how I do things when you or someone else mirrors what I thought was a weird idiosyncrasy. Thank you too.
Thanks for the mention Stephan. If you’re stuck with anything on the Magazine theme just drop me an email. My previous blog theme was the Revolution magazine theme.
Funked’s last blog post..cmsnerd.com
I might need a little help. I resized everything but now I am down to a few minor tweaks. I’ll get a list together and take a look at what’s left.
Outsourcing is one of the few practicals ways to get software done for many people. I like your blogs theme’s and the way you show your sites. Good job keep up good work and wish you luck with future projects.
- h2o Larry