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I’m not going to sugar coat this. Getting your first clients as a freelancer is tough! You’re stuck in a Catch-22. People don’t want to hire you because you don’t have any previous clients. But you don’t have any previous clients because no one has hired you yet. So what are you supposed to do? About a year out of college, I was presented with this exact situation. I had 0 clients, 0 industry contacts, and 0 websites in my portfolio. Yet, I was able to build a freelancing business that grew to a couple hundred clients and allowed me […]

If you look at a WordPress page with any of the available developer tools, you might get the impression that it is mainly made up of HTML and CSS with some occasional JavaScript. However, what you see there is only the end product. In the background, much of any given WordPress page is actually constructed from PHP functions and database queries. These get interpreted by the browser who then spits out the page in a viewable form. While CSS works well to make superficial changes (colors, sizes, etc.), if you want to make bigger, structural alterations, you will need to […]

I recently started exercising again, and the gym I joined offered a free fitness assessment. I think almost every gym that offers personal training services offers one of these free assessments to all new members. They say it helps you get started at the gym, but in reality it is designed to sell you personal training. Knowing this full well, I took them up on the offer. Why? I wanted to learn something about user onboarding. The guy who gave me my free fitness assessment asked me a bunch of questions about my goals and habits, showed me some exercises […]