by Jason Long | Sep 9, 2014 | Management, People, Running a Business
Laura recently told us “Invoices. Loathsome, vile creatures. I hate doing invoices more than anyone I know.” At that moment, I realized why we had not received an invoice from her in a while. So we asked that she write an article on this that would perhaps...
by Jason Long | Sep 8, 2014 | Marketing, News, Press, Running a Business
Gene Hammett from Leaders in the Trenches interviewed Jason Long last week and here is the podcast. They discussed the stress of running a business, growing your people, learning how to niche your business, and letting go. See the full article here!
by Jason Long | Sep 8, 2014 | News, People, Running a Business, Sales
This is how I felt when I finally figured out how much I was going to end up paying a good sales person. And then I remembered a scene from one of my favorite Simpsons episodes. LOU: Gee, chief, all those gears and motors must have cost a fortune! CHIEF WIGGUM: Well,...
by Jason Long | Aug 25, 2014 | Management, People, Running a Business
Other than pricing, probably the biggest concern for a freelancer or studio is the question of how to manage clients. I had a chance to sit down with Zach Alig, a veteran Production Manager at JH Media Group, in Athens, Ga., about his approaches on managing...
by Jason Long | Aug 21, 2014 | News, Web Design
This post on Quora on the best resources for bleeding edge design has been making the rounds. Some of the answers are awesome, and I want to highlight a few of them here for BrainLeaf beta users. These resources will help small or one-man design studios get their UX...