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Goals for 2008: February update

Posted by Rahoul Baruah on March 3rd, 2008 under General  •  No Comments

Sorry - been busy.  Really busy.
Just enough time to update you on my goals.

Revenue: Up.  By more than 10%.  Probably enough to give me grief in achieving the target next month.  But that’s the idea eh?  Also explains why I have been so busy.
SUCCESS
Hours: Still over 40 per  week, but down on last month.  In [...]

6 Rules for Effective Conference Calls

Posted by Rahoul Baruah on February 6th, 2008 under General  •  No Comments

In this day and age the conference call is a fact of life. It may no longer be on the telephone - Skype, VOIP and iChat have seen to that - but a group of geographically disparate people trying to speak without any visual contact is an increasingly common way of doing business. [...]

Goals for 2008: January Update

Posted by Rahoul Baruah on February 1st, 2008 under General  •  No Comments

No point having goals if you’re not going to follow through on them.
So here is my January score-card:

Revenue. No 10% gain, in fact, it’s down on December. FAIL
Hours: Averaging about 50 hours a week. FAIL
Marketing: Outside help contacted, beginnings of a plan is in place. SUCCESS
People: The last geekup was great, [...]

How not to do it

Posted by Rahoul Baruah on January 16th, 2008 under General  •  1 Comment

Everyone’s favourite shared host, Dreamhost, has had a major fuck-up. They accidentally billed a lot of their customers for a year in advance. Some of them were billed repeatedly. Some had accounts suspended for non-payment, others incurred overdraft and credit limit fees.
Ignoring the fact that it never should have happened (test, test, [...]

Small Business

Posted by Rahoul Baruah on January 14th, 2008 under General  •  No Comments

I have been planning this post, on and off, for months. Then I almost shelved it, when I read Shane’s excellent “Just like Air“.
You see I wanted to write something very similar. Not the bit about “money being like air” (although that would be nice, it’s not my goal). No, it’s the [...]

Goals for 2008

Posted by Rahoul Baruah on December 24th, 2007 under General  •  No Comments

It’s almost the end of the year so, as is now traditional for a “web-worker”, here are my goals for 2008.
Personal Goals
Sorting out my money. For some reason money just flows out of my account; I have looked at where it goes and everything seems to be “essential”. So time to stick a [...]

Implementing a Task

Posted by Rahoul Baruah on December 21st, 2007 under General  •  No Comments

Yet another post in an occasional series detailing the way that 3hv works. Read more here or subscribe to be notified when a new article is posted, or find out why hiring 3hv will benefit your business.
This is the most important of the lot. Where the work gets done. Where I earn [...]

Shameless self-promotion

Posted by Rahoul Baruah on December 21st, 2007 under General  •  No Comments

I’ve added some recommendations onto the 3hv site.

Doing the Work

Posted by Rahoul Baruah on December 19th, 2007 under General  •  No Comments

This is one of an occasional series on how 3hv conducts its business processes. You can read more here, subscribe to be notified whenever a new article is posted or find out why hiring 3hv will benefit your business.
So I’ve got the sale. Nice work fella.
Now what?
Well, I want to make sure that [...]

The Interview

Posted by Rahoul Baruah on December 16th, 2007 under General  •  4 Comments

Taken from Shane and Peter.
What’s your personal mission statement?
No Regrets. So far that’s pretty true.  Or maybe “I’m glad I have tasted fantastical places” (which I am and I have).
What’s the biggest mess you’ve dealt with this year?
The application I was working on at my previous employer. Over the years it had [...]