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The Risk of Relying on Free Plugins

As a WordPress power user and developer for more than 12 years, I have seen a lot of changes in the WordPress universe. One thing that has not changed (thank goodness) is that the platform remains free. Additionally, there continues to be a lot of freely available plugins.

The prevalence of free plugins reduces the barrier to entry for someone to launch a business with little or no initial capital. In fact, now with Amazon’s free trial of their AWS products, you can launch an online business with no costs other than the price of your domain. Get a domain at someplace like Cheap Domain Registration and your business could launch for less than $10.

While building and launching a business on free products can be great, there are pitfalls associated with keeping your business on the “free” model. [Read more…]

Creativity Extortion Part 2 – Turning Negative into Positive as a Freelancer

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In Part 1 of this series, we addressed how to identify two types of users who bleed your creativity through various actions. Now in Part 2 we will look at ways to deal with them in a positive manner and hopefully turn some of them around. [Read more…]

Creativity Extortion Working as a Freelance Designer, Developer, or Writer

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As a freelance creative designer, developer, or writer working either self employed, towards being self employed, or simply with a good side hustle, you will often run into people who seek to extort creativity from you. This may come in the form of outright extortion, or it may be veiled.

Make no mistake, succumbing to extortion tactics is a recipe for disaster in your business. But handling it poorly can be equally destructive. [Read more…]

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