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- How to Build a Marketing Funnel with an Audience on Another Platform
If you've built an audience on a platform other than your own website, how do you go about turning that following into a marketing funnel for something you're offering?
Join us to learn more.
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Links of the week:
- This post from BlinkOps explains Identity and Access Management (IAM) automation.
- A Testim blog post that provides an overview of six JavaScript editors.
- A Sawmills post that gives an overview of Logstash filters, explaining their role in parsing.
- An Enov8 blog post that explains how a Release Train Engineer (RTE) facilitates Agile Release Trains (ARTs) within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
- An overview of Tricentis Testim, an AI-powered test automation platform designed to streamline the testing of custom web, mobile, and Salesforce applications (sites also available to read in German, French, and Japanese).
24 min - What Should You Do When Asked to Implement a Bad Idea?
It will sometimes come up that a prospect or client asks you to implement something that's either too vague to work or a flat-out bad idea. What should you do in this situation?
Join us to learn more.
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Links of the week:
- This round-up of application portfolio management tools from our friends at Enov8.
- Regression testing for Workday, from our friends at Tricentis (also in German and Japanese).
20 min - Is Strategic Advice a Good Up-Sell for a Programmer?
If you're a programmer (or, generally, a labor-based freelancer), is it a good idea to sell strategic advice as a kind of "up-sell" to your normal offering?
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Links of the week:
- An Introductory Guide to Application Portfolio Management
- A beginner's guide to volume testing
30 min - How Should I Price an Hour-Long Training Session?
I do a lot of theory in this series, but here's something practical. How would I recommend someone price an hour-long training session to teach social media tactics to a salesforce? Join us to learn more.
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Links of the week:
- Sprint Scheduling: A Guide to Your Agile Calendar
- Not only do our friends at Tricentis offer Tosca, a powerful end-to-end testing tool, they also have sites available in these languages:
- French
- Japanese
- and German!
25 min - How Should I Handle a Non-Compete Agreement from a Client?
Sometimes, a client may ask you to sign a non-compete agreement as a prerequisite for engaging with them. Should you do it? How should you handle this situation in general? Join us to learn more.
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Links of the week:
- How regression testing is performed
- An Introductory Guide to Application Portfolio Management
- What is Security Automation? Benefits, Types & Best Practices
- What Is Software Testing? All the Basics You Need to Know
26 min - How Can You Move to Niching and Value Pricing?
The default with freelancing is to charge by the hour and do generalist work. You might have, however, heard of value pricing and heard the idea that you should establish a niche. How should you go about doing that?
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Links of the week:
- Test Suites and Their Test Cases: The Hierarchy Explained
- Challenges in mobile testing and how to solve them
- What is A/B Deployment (aka A/B Testing)
- What is Data Lineage? An Explanation and Example
25 min - Does Having More Leads Mean You Can Raise Your Rates?
As you grow your business successfully, you'll have more demand for your work and, thus, more leads. Does that naturally mean you can raise your rates? The answer is more complex than you might think.
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Links of the week:
- UI test automation: What it is and how to get started
- Testim, a fast and flexible authoring of AI-powered end-to-end tests—built for scale
- Enterprise Intelligence – Migrating & Managing the Cloud
- Database Virtualization Tools
24 min - Is It Worth It to Bring in Subcontractors?
If you establish a practice and start to earn a good bit of business, sooner or later you'll have to contend with the decision of whether or not to bring on subcontractors to help you. Should you do it?
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Link of the week:
- Get Started With Salesforce QA and Testing: A Tutorial
23 min - Will ChatGPT Replace Freelance Programming?
I resisted talking about ChatGPT as long as humanly possible, but I did wind up getting a question in the backlog about it. So, will ChatGPT replace freelance programming?
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Links of the week:
How to Do Test Data Management in Agile: 8 Best Practices
Android testing: An easy introduction with examples
19 min - Freelancer or Self Employed: What Should You Call Yourself?
If you go into business for yourself, what should you call yourself? Freelancer? Self-employed? Something else?
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Link of the week:
- Enov8: The IT & Test Environments Management Company
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