Posts Tagged ‘time’

“Just knowing you have the time helps you make the time.” Extract from another great post by Jason Fry.

Every interruption cuts your work day into a series of work moments. 45 minutes here, then a meeting. A hour there, then a conference call. 20 minutes until someone taps you on the shoulder or calls your name across the office. These events kill productivity.

Most of these interruptions are experienced at a micro level. They’re experienced during a day. But I’ve found the same thing holds true on a macro level. If you stretch your time scale out to weeks or months, a day trip here or a couple days away there has the same effect: It kills productivity. A couple days away a week is like a few meetings a day — it makes it hard to get anything meaningful done. An interruption is an interruption.

[...] knowing I have a clear schedule for many months has shifted me into a pleasantly productive mindset. I’ve gotten a ton done so far this week. There have been some projects I’ve been meaning to start for a while, but with future travel hanging over my head I couldn’t get into a groove. I’m back in a groove.

It’s a good reminder of the power of an open schedule. Just knowing you have the time helps you make the time.

From The pleasure of an open schedule By Jason Fried of 37signals. (more…)

It doesn’t really matter how much time you spend on something, right? The outcome is what matters. The results. Then why most service companies bill their clients by the hour? Is there a better way?

On the other hand, we know that businesses who charge their clients based on scope restrict themselves to working within stiff boundaries – which doesn’t work in a creative industry.

So is there another way? The solution we found here at Noam Design is to stop taking on client work and focus on our products instead.

So we’re not charging by the hour: it doesn’t matter how long it takes us to develop a Magento template or a CMS template! Time isn’t a factor when determining a product’s price. Quality, usefulness, and market demand are more important.

We’re not charging based on the scope of work either. Sometimes a product requires a huge amount of work, revisions, adjustments, etc while other products are developed in a breeze. All that is quite irrelevant though – only the end result matters. Is the product useful for our customers? Will someone get a good value by buying it? Do people need it? These are the questions that matter more. (more…)

How much time someone has been doing something is no indication as to how good that person is at doing it! In all the different fields I have been involved in, I’ve met people who had tons of experience and really sucked while others had almost no experience but were really good.

It’s not the quantity of experience that matters – it’s the quality. In fact experience will interfere – people often get stiffer with experience. When you have a lot of experience in a field, you’re prone to continue doing things the way you’ve been doing them so far. It’s harder to adapt and to change.

No matter what your line of business is – adaptability and flexibility is an asset of the utmost importance. Especially if you’re a small business. Because speed and agility is an advantage you can leverage over the big guys. (more…)

To all web designers and web design companies who are loyal followers of this web design blog, here is another post in our web design company resources series! Enjoy this free professional email template that I’ve been using for some time with great success.

For the past few years, I’ve been responsible for following up with potential clients who contact our web design company about their web design projects. Being one of the most demanded web design and web development companies out there, we are often flooded with inquiries, and I often end up not having the time to get back to every client. Over time we came up with the perfect email template to use in just that case! (more…)

Time has always been a phenomenal subject among the ordinary and the unordinary. Nobody can really explain the nature of time; we simply follow it by days, months, and years. In the web design world however the philosophy of time consists of productivity, creativity, efficiency, and deadlines. (more…)