Upward Updates
Meet Our Client Of The Month: Lance Lang
Most ministries are not exactly the prime target clientele for freelancers. As a category, they have a reputation for short-changing you and wanting a free lunch every other day. It’s a harsh description, but in my experience, it’s been the absolute truth. That’s why meeting Lance Lang was a refreshing change of pace.
Read MoreHow what I do helps you grow your business.
For the first post of 2015, I wanted to take an opportunity to explain what it’s like working with Upward, for those who may be considering a partnership. What follows is a glimpse into the process and methodology we use to help others in their “going upward”.
Read MoreWelcome Guest Blogger Alex Sanchez!
Big news guys, we’re really glad to be bringing on our very first guest blogger – Alex Sanchez! Alex runs his own blog at Up From Nothing and as I’ve been reading his stuff, I’m amazed at how parallel he is to GoingUpward. While the GoingUpward blog has been traditionally dedicated to helping small businesses…
Read More2012 Tales: Making my own noose.
This is the last post of my 2012 Tales series, and it’s a doozy. If you haven’t read any of the others, be sure to check out all posts on 2012 Tales. Now, without further ado, let’s wrap this thing up. Earlier this year I acquired a client from California through a friend of mine. They…
Read More2012 Tales: The Carrot
Sometimes, no matter how many times you go through something terrible, if you don’t recognize how you got there – and take the steps to consciously avoid it – you’ll go through it again and again. When I first began freelancing my web design skills, I took all the usual avenues: I hit up friends…
Read More2012 Tales: The client with too many irons in the fire.
I gained and lost one client this year who had a difficult time focusing on the task at hand. You could tell in conversations, on the phone and certainly in the way he conducted business. He started last summer with a local coffee and entertainment venue, that looked like it would do well. They were…
Read More2012 Tales: The internet is not magic.
There are certain folks for whom the internet holds a magical allure for them. Because they don’t understand anything about Photoshop, pixels or code, they may as well put me in the same league as Dr. Strange, because to them, what I do is magic. This is the story of one such client. Spoiler Alert: They didn’t…
Read More2012 Tales: A very expensive road trip.
Freelancers know that referrals are the lifeblood of our business. When someone refers a new client to you, it’s a great boost to your pocketbook and your morale. So when I was recommended by an acquaintance to this client that eagerly wanted to meet, I was pretty excited. There was a lot to be happy…
Read More2012 Tales: You can’t control the wind.
When I relaunched Upward Media shortly before the start of last year, I made a big deal about a particular client that had been the lynchpin of my own change of heart just six months before. Meeting with them was like turning a corner and running smack into exactly what I wanted to do with…
Read MoreGoodbye, Steve.
Okay, let me just start off by saying that I wasn’t sure about writing a post like this until this morning. So many people have flooded the internet with great stories about Steve Jobs and his passing that I almost didn’t write this for fear of it being seen as nothing more than a “me…
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