Blogging and all that Malarkey

In this week’s episode of Unfinished Business, Anna and I talk about deposits and down-payments, getting paid regularly and what you can do if the unthinkable happens and you have to fight for your money.

On Monday evening I had the pleasure to speak with Tim Smith on his show The East Wing. We talk about book authoring, business podcasts and how better to manage client relationships. The East Wing is a great show and I thoroughly enjoyed speaking to Tim.

I thoroughly enjoyed hosting another Fashionably flexible responsive web design workshop at New Adventures on Wednesday. I got the feeling that everyone enjoyed the day. I know that I did.

Throughout my career, I’ve watched immensely talented designers waste a shitload of time creating fully fleshed-out comps of what a website could look like.

Brian Suda’s post is the perfect compliment to episode two of Unfinished Business, out today. I may come back to add my take on Brian’s advice another day, time permitting

In this new episode of Unfinished Business, the often taboo subject of how to decide what to charge for what you do. Getting the balance between too cheap and too pricey can be tricky, so Andy and Anna share their experiences — including Andy’s infamous ‘double your rate Fridays’ — and how to handle uncomfortable conversations about money.

Sophie Schmidt, daughter of Google chairman Eric Schmidt, visited North Korea and wrote a fascinating account of what she saw along with a few photos. Personally, I’ve always been fascinated by totalitarian, propaganda art and North Korea is one of the few places left in the world to see it.

I know how hard it can be, waiting a whole week for a new episode of Unfinished Business. To make things easier, here are two more creative business related podcasts for you to try.

A fun interview about contracts, client relationships, debt collection and men with big dogs. All topics we will be talking about over the coming weeks on Unfinished Business.

Late last year, Anna Debenham and I were talking on the phone. It was one of those easy conversations where we talked about the good and bad of the work we were doing and how to solve a business problem we both had. Before we knew it, an hour had gone by and one of us (I don’t remember who) said, half jokingly, “we should do a podcast about the business side of working on the web.” So we did.