Scope Creep: Keeping Your Projects on Time and On Budget
When you are starting your own business there are a number of things you don’t learn in business school. Sure you learn accounting and marketing, but you don’t learn that when dealing with customers and clients there is always going to be “Scope Creep”. Scope Creep is when you tell your client what you will [...]
Go To The Hub
One of my clients is in the process of rebranding. We have changed the site name to The Hub and since TheHub.com was taken I came up with the idea to create the url http://www.gotothehub.com which is a nice work-around. The site was created in a Woo Theme – Aperture because we like the clean [...]
Successful Self-Employment
Unless you are forced out of your job then don’t rush to start your own business. Instead, take some time to start laying ground work and ready yourself for success. 1. Save Money – you need to have some capital for expenses, inventory, uniforms, advertising, decals, stickers, website, etc, not to mention if you don’t [...]
You Can’t Bail
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 [...]
Resume Bear: 30 Ways to Get Fired Using Twitter
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.
SOS New Name Challenge
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 [...]
The End of the Full-Time Job
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, [...]
Executive Level IT and Web Support
My clients often underestimate the amount of time that can go into making edits and changes in web design. One client thought a website could be put together in 15 minutes. I normally can put together a website in 10 hours and at $50-75 an hour that adds up quick. Before I start a project [...]
Kasperky, Norton or McAfee?
I just purchased Kaspersky for a client. 18 computers, 3yr contract, $970 dollars. Not bad. I came from Texas Instruments and we used Norton Antivirus and when I worked at Custom Food Group we used Comptuer Associates Antivirus. I liked Norton the best of all 3 and had never even heard of Kaspersky until I [...]
Filtering the Clutter
When I want a solution, I want it IMMEDIATELY! Please don’t make me click 14 links to get to the information that I need. Why do I need to click “Download Here” 4 times before I finally get to download the information? So what I am trying to do with eddierenz.com is create simple and [...]
