What is it that find TOUGHEST to do?

raffs said:
This would be great if I had dozens of employees, but as a freelancer, my mind goes like: "Ok! You're here for 2 hours... If you don't leave, I'll never get your job done!"
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Learning to be blunt helps with this.

Just tell people nicely to leave.

"I have to ask you to go now, I have some work piling up, maybe we can get together next week if my schedule is clearer."

"I have a meeting in 10 minutes, was there anything in particular we needed to cover?"

or the classic

"I am busy, come back later."

Learning to say no is the most liberating thing.
 


guerilla said:
Learning to be blunt helps with this.

Just tell people nicely to leave.

"I have to ask you to go now, I have some work piling up, maybe we can get together next week if my schedule is clearer."

"I have a meeting in 10 minutes, was there anything in particular we needed to cover?"

or the classic

"I am busy, come back later."

Learning to say no is the most liberating thing.
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I couldn't agree more!!!

But this is some cultural stuff. Clients enjoy having lunch with you, dinner and such. And it may take hours. People like to know you better to see with who they're dealing with. That's why I love working online.

As though I think that staying too long isn't polite, asking to leave it's also not well seen.

I always try to be polite. And I never ask to leave.
What I do is to pretend that there's something that need to done outside the office. If I know that it's a person that tends to stay forever. I usually use the famous "Oh! Thanks god you've arrived! I was about to leave to...."

Thanks god for that iPhone app that fakes a call too. Always set to 30 minutes. :D

Unfortunatelly this is how it needs to be done.
 
avatar33 said:
Being in AM often means having to do a bit of everything... what is it that you find the toughest (or hate) to do?

1) Programming
2) Content Writing
3) Designing
4) SEO'ing

Personally: Content Writing! Can't stand doing this. Happy I found some reliable writers to take care of this part.
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I hate programming most... I could not make up a program if it has a deadline.lol. I hate being pressured. :rasta:
 
I can't design at all, hell I can barely crop a photo (though I'm good at "critiquing" my designer's work). I'm not sure I can even spell CSS.
To say my coding skills are the same as a homeless chimpanzee with a paint-huffing addiction and dyslexia would be an insult...to the chimpanzee.
Writing and SEO I'm actually pretty decent at, (probably the only reason I made it).

So the hardest part for me was, realizing how truly bad I am at the first 2, and finally learning just barely enough about them that I could actually reliably hire people who ARE good at them.
 
I've never liked programming and always outsource it most of the time. If it's something like a 30 second job I'll do it, but other than that it gets outsourced.
 
Designing has got to be the easiest one! Although I have no services here or anything, I am a pretty decent designer, especially when it comes to landing pages. On a special offer, I will offer the first person to Pm me after seeing this a free landing page of their choice :)

PROGRAMMING sucks balls. I've spent days thinking to myself, "Okay, let's learn some programming tomorrow morning" but then I end up saying the next day, "This is too long, I cant be fucked for this, Il pay someone to do it"

Most of programming is probably quite easy but you need to spend hours sitting in front of your computer learning. That is the first thing I hate. Wasting time on programming is just bullshit and I would rather let someone do it for me. Especially an Indian who would do it for a cheap rate. But then again, their programming sometimes sucks balls too.
 
Yeah probably programming unless you find a really good freelancer who you've given a few jobs to and is proven to deliver decent stuff. Annoying hiring a freelancer with shittier programming than me then having to basically re-write the shit from scratch.

I also hate writing bullshit content. Writing content I actually have knowledge in/am interested in can be enjoyable somewhat and is quite therapeutic at times.

I enjoy design, but to be honest the only thing that annoys me is saving the PSDs somewhere safe, then saving the file in different formats etc. I lose half the shit most of the time since I'm fucking unorganized.
 
JakeStratham said:
Seriously. It can change your life.
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IIRC, our friendship started with you saying no to me.

raffs said:
I couldn't agree more!!!

But this is some cultural stuff.
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Change your culture. Make them realize how valuable your time is, and they will value your work more. If they know you sit around all day talking, then they know you aren't very busy, or you are charging too much money.
 
probably everything except programming. i love to code and get shit working, especially when it's something new and i've to get stuck in.

design of creatives isn't too bad, and ad copy, kinda like that, braingstorming for higher CTRs. hate designing anything else. absolutely hate writing, just feels like i'm absolutely wasting my time. but i don't really do much of it anyway so that's good
 
Here are a couple tips for people who don't like writing.

1. Write about something you care about.

2. Record yourself talking about a topic, then transcribe it. It is a lot easier to verbalize than to first draft on blank paper.
 
Programming -- I'm a total fucktard.

I mean I can edit a bit of html. But I do straight 301 redirects to the offer pages from cpanel.

I spent the past 6 - or 8 weeks looking at all kinds of web authoring shit, sitoweb, Dreamweaver (wtf??) , fucking god only knows what else. I still get a freakin headache when I look back at it.

Downloaded WP and their talking about how I might have to edit mysql databases and some php on cpanel I'm like yeah ok. I just wanna fuck the bitch I don't wanna build a vagina.

If I can't just upload an index.html from my hd to cpanel it ain't going on the web!

Blogspot is perfect for me I'm that fuckin BAD!

I have been in SBT lately but am almost afraid to hire someone to do an LP or really a minisite I need because that shit is a fucking nitemare for me to get online.

Insert a Sam Kinison scream here -> AHHHHHHHHHH, AHHHHHHHHH
 
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I agree with a previous poster that said you have to identify (and most importantly acknowledge) your strengths and weaknesses. A lot of people live in denial, they want to master everything. Frankly I don't think 1 life is enough to master programming, design and content writing.

I totally believed (or wanted to believe) that my designs were the real deal, until I got some serious feedback saying that it sucked lol... had to accept it eventually and hire professional designers. It totally helped me in the long run, made my websites look a whole lot better and most importantly convert better.

I was originally a programmer (graduated with IT-Web Development degree) ... and one thing that is kinda odd: I've never met a programmer that can design, and vice versa. Now that I think about it... all my programmer friends thought my designs were awesome lol
 
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