Craftmanship to aspire to One of my best customers called and asked me if I could fix an app. I knew and was friendly with the original developer. I had helped him with some code several times on zoom. He was new to MS Office development. While I’m always happy… Continue reading
Value is helping people do things better and faster. Value is educating people. Value is making people feel good about themselves and their interactions with you. Value is empowering people to make good decisions and take the right action. Continue reading
Feedback is about listening actively, taking the time to analyze, and then thinking of the best possible solution to perform better. It provides positive criticism and allows to see what everyone can change to improve their focus and results. It brings people together and creates a healthy communication flow. A… Continue reading
For the last few weeks or so I have been noodling with an idea I have for a nonfiction How-to book: Building Your Freelancer Platform. A key component, for most people, of that platform will be your website. Your website is both the sign hanging outside your virtual shop and… Continue reading
It has been a year and half since I left the corporate world and hung up my virtual shingle. Well, that is when I published my Microsoft Office Development www.excelandvbacraftsman.com website that is. My side-hustle goals were simple: Generate a modest amount of income while not working full time. Hard… Continue reading
How to Hire an Excel Expert First let me clarify Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is an incredible powerful language and tool. In the right skilled hands, it can do magic. It can control not only Excel, Word, Outlook and Access it can, through the COM (common language interface), control… Continue reading
I love this job. As promised in My Entrepreneurial Life as a Microsoft Office VBA Freelancer Part I, I am going to do a bit of a dive into SEO challenges and complexities – For the newbies out there I will start with the basic key concepts. For those of you… Continue reading
When to call in “Expert Help’? Ask yourself these five questions When to call in ‘Excel Help’? Ask yourself these five questions As a Freelance Microsoft Office VBA Developer, I needed to have, as a friend says, “wicked mad computer skills” if I was to succeed. Yes, I’ve been a developer… Continue reading