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Please Welcome, Boston Web Studio – Posted: 12 days ago – Filed under: Business Personal
Please join me in saying, to me, you’re crazy.
“You’re crazy.”
Right, thank you, I know.
Five days ago, on May 1st, I officially joined the ranks of millions, (or the very high hundreds), of other self-employed men and women in our great nation of Massachusetts. After a little more than two years working for a marvelous local agency called Digital Bungalow, I’ve made the leap to self-employment and started my own teeny-tiny business called Boston Web Studio.
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Receiving Unique Payments with PayPal – Posted: 36 days ago – Filed under: Business Clients
My small design and development gig, Boston Web Studio, has been creating websites for small-business owners since January, 2005. In the three years that have passed, I’ve never once been asked if I can take a credit card for payment on an invoice I’ve sent to a client. It has always been a check or cash transaction and I’ve given little thought to receiving any other form of payment. Last month, however, three separate clients asked me whether or not I could take a credit card. I had to answer “No,” but I told each of them that I would make it possible, and soon. In my opinion, making it easier for a client to pay you money owed is never a bad thing.
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“Step Away from the Computer and Stand Against the Wall” – Posted: 45 days ago – Filed under: History Personal
I was never the type of person who used my computer for malicious and illegal things but a man with a badge was telling me to “Step away from the computer and stand against the wall.” What have I done that would warrant this? I remember downloading a couple albums recently, but that’s really it.
No time to think; the man was walking towards me and I hadn’t yet stepped away from my computer. Again, he said, “Step away from the computer and stand against the wall.” Entirely uncertain what I might have done wrong, my mind went foggy and I stood up. At that moment I noticed he wasn’t alone, but his badge-wielding buddies weren’t following him as he came directly towards me. Instead, they went off to different areas of the office and were saying the same canned line to my coworkers, all twenty-five of them.
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Boston Web Studio Business Cards – Posted: 50 days ago – Filed under: Business
Just a quick post; I recently designed a new business card to replace the old stodgy version I had been using since 2005. While I’m not a good designer, and considering that these cost only $20.00 USD for 100 of them, I’m quite happy with the results.
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How I Became a Front-end Developer – Posted: 57 days ago – Filed under: Personal History
In the first quarter of 2004 I was employed as a truck driver for Moynihan Lumber in Beverly, Massachusetts. My job was to deliver new doors, windows, and lumber to contractors and homeowners in the process of remodeling or building a home in the Eastern Massachusetts area.
I would arrive at the warehouse at 7 a.m., fill up a 24′ box truck with the first round of orders, and be out on the road making deliveries by 9 a.m. Shortly after lunch I would come back to the warehouse with an empty truck and fill it up with a second round of orders. By about 5 p.m., that second round of orders would be delivered and I would go home.
Lets go back in time some more, all the way back to 1999.