“Digital agency” is quite broad as it may entail a broad set of services. Creative, web development, advertisement, SEO are also digital in a way. Beyond providing tangible services, many digital agencies take on the role of consultants. They offer strategic insights and formulate impactful strategies. Digital agencies are not confined ...
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Is WordPress Development a Form of Web Development?
Here comes a harsh opinion coming from a WordPress Core contributor and WordPress agency owner who’s been programming since 1999. First off, you can’t say “building websites from scratch using WordPress”. The fact that you can pretty much set up a website in a matter of minutes with WordPress is nowhere near starting with an empty ...
Mentorship Is Overrated In Early IT Days
Mentorship is overrated, especially during the first years of one’s technical career. But Why Is Mentorship Overrated? Not because mentors lack the skills or experience to help out. There’s simply too much emphasis on the need for mentorship for one’s successful career. Great mentors are highly experienced, somewhat succes...
Is Intellectual Property Endangered By Remote Developers In Startups?
Successful open source businesses depend on factors outside of their codebase, such as: Brand positioning and PR Customer base Portfolio Talented engineers and business professionals able to scale Strategic partnerships Investments If Facebook’s codebase gets stolen and replicated as NewFacebook.com, who cares? ...
Can Management Consultants Be Good Startup Founders?
Traditional management consultants (and advisors) are MBAs who have spent a decade or more in the corporate space. I’ve studied 500+ of them and over 80% fell in this category. Funnily enough, this is mainly dictated by the background of “management consulting”. This isn’t a popular title in the startup ecosystem and most founders ...
How To Gain Experience As A Junior Developer
Let’s review that from an employer’s perspective. The First Week Or Two Someone with no practical skills and proven experience joins your team. You greet them, show them around, introduce them to the team, let them settle on their desk. You share the access to your VPN, add them on Dropbox or Drive, give them the documentation of th...
What Is The Difference Between Freelancers And Office Workers?
Freelancers Are Usually Project-Based Employees The common belief is that freelancers are usually project-based employees who often work independently on a specific project with a deadline. This may vary given ongoing agreements (a certain number of hours a month) and collaboration with other people. Due to the irregular work schedule and...
How To Reject Sales Proposals While Keeping Your Door Open
Generally, most of the cold emails and calls we receive (dozens every month) are automated and provide no value for us whatsoever. Some of the remaining exceptions are just not a good fit for us. And every 3–4 months we receive an interesting one that may be worth pursuing. Whenever we want to politely put a business conversation on hol...
On Working As a Developer Only For a Paycheck
Why is it that when it comes to computer programming, everyone completely warns against doing it for the money? What Is Software Engineering Anyway? Software development has been continuously hyped, praised, promoted by media for various reasons - high salaries and increasing demand being the primary ones. Some of the most valued compani...
Upwork’s IPO Impact On Freelancers Who Use Their Platform
As a former freelancer, I’d generated over $60K back in the day. As a company owner, we’ve already invested 6 figures through Upwork. [caption id="attachment_13835" align="aligncenter" width="640"] A Screengrab of Upwork Homepage[/caption] Increase The Profit Margins While the long-term strategy of Upwork may shift, going public ...