phone: (614) 706-7748
email: zach@zachcharbel.com
Category: Self Employment
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In today’s digital age, your website is often the first impression customers have of your business. It’s not just a platform to showcase your services or products, but also a key representation of your company’s identity. To truly connect with your audience, it’s crucial that your website reflects your company’s core values. Whether you’re starting…
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One of my biggest gripes of being a web developer is that most people think it’s super easy to do. So easy in fact that after going through a “bootcamp” or feeling that you have taught yourself enough to become confident in web development. They’ll have a prosperous career. When that really isn’t the truth…
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You’ve probably seen a recent article going around where Mark Cuban is proud to pay taxes and while you probably won’t be paying the amount that the article states. You should be happy that you’re paying taxes.Yes you’re paying out money to a government you may not agree with or agree with how they spend…
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Every project you do. There’s undoubtedly tasks that are common between them and you have to set them up on each project. Being a web developer focusing mainly on WordPress. Each project has a base framework I’ve created and refined over the years. This way, each time I start a new WordPress project. I just…
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One thing I’ve done from the relative beginning of being an independent contractor is requiring a deposit upfront of any project. I started doing this because I was seeing that, while most projects do their best to stick to a timeline, projects almost always went past the stated deadline/s that were put in place. Sometimes…
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Whether you found me through a referral, on google or we’ve known each other from a previous project or employment. Here’s what you can expect when I price out and invoice projects I work on and when it comes to pricing. I typically price everything out at either a fixed price or hourly price. Fixed…
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With being a self-employed web developer. I’ve had to figure out what technology works best, software, hardware, etc. So I figured I’d share with you what my current office set up looks like. Hardware Apple Mac Studio – This is my day-to-day rig and upgrading to the M1 Max chipset from intel. The difference is…
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With being self-employed for almost for almost three full years and a remote worker for the past five. There’s one thing I have come to stand firm on over the years. And that one thing has been to set work hours and stick to doing work within those times. That’s because working from home, especially…
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With going on year number three of being an independent web developer. I still find it rather amazing how many people still have a standard gmail address that are self-employed. I know it’s a minor thing that may not be that big of a deal, but getting an email that’s associated with your domain. Gives…
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Being self-employed comes with one rather large risk. That risk being you don’t necessarily know where your next paycheck is coming from. Yes, you may have a a string of good months where you don’t have to worry, but what about when the work slows down or comes to a complete stop? When that does…