Being self-employed is hard. You have to deal with customers and clients that aren’t always easy to work with. The trade off: You get to be your own boss.
I’ve spent years working in cubicles, trapped next to annoying co-workers, and I had no choice but to deal with it. Now I have a choice and the people I work with aren’t co-workers, they are the people that pay my bills.
To them I have to constantly exceed their expectations because there is a big bucket of Eddie Renz’s to choose from. The number of people who do IT work is staggering. I’ve increased my odds by Djing and doing some Marketing, but overall what has made me a success is my willingness to go the extra mile for my clients while wearing a smile.
This is hard for me. I’m an emotional person who sometimes gets upset when a client pushes me to do more with less or to make something different when I think it is perfect. In the end, I normally end up finding that both of us are right and that we just have to work together to make the best of the situation.
If you are self-employed then remember that it is very rare that you will find “The Pefect Customer”, but any customer is better than none at all.
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I just got the final proof back from Ian over at www.mc3.com.au and my jaw fell to the floor. This is why I hired him:
Every element that I wanted has been captured in this design with a sleek layout and eye-catching color. My expectations have been exceeded and I’m very happy.
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These are some Web Design layouts I created. Note: They are not the designs, but rather an idea of what we’d like and maybe where the content should go. I like doing web design but I don’t like turning it into XHTML. however, now there are sites that do that for you. Yeah!
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Many of you may not know that I am a DJ in the Dallas Ft. Worth Area. I have invested about 10,000 in upgraded equipment and songs in the last few months and I decided it was time to update the website.
I started scouted out new designers and I found one that I love. http://www.mc3.com.au.
First [...]
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Here at Eddie Renz dot com we like to rummage through Twitter and find some great information. I mean it is a treasure trove of goodies, like this Tweet I found from @rondostar who is a Twitter Rockstar.
Here are a couple of fun ones to get you started.
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One of my clients is http://www.songofsolomon.com
We are currently running a contest to see if we can find a new name for our company that encompasses everything that we offer - which is much more than just Song of Solomon Bible Studies.
I am also quite pleased with the graphic that I came up with for the [...]
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If you poke around the internet you will find a plethora of freelance sites and people offering their services for a set fee. Why? Because the traditional 40 hour work week is a dying breed. There is a lack of loyalty from large corporations and with the rise of internet jobs - bloggers, copy editors, [...]
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Dear Justine,
This is an open proposal and if I knew where to find you I would get down on one knee and pop the question - are you really as awesome in person as you are in all of your videos? You are perky and hot and you make geeky gadgets sleek and sexy. Even [...]
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