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Sep 22

Have you ever been limited by your skills

As I wrote the other day about being in a bind when it comes to building out a PSD to WordPress - due to my less than stellar programming skills… I wondered if I wasn’t just the only one with this sort of problem. I’ve seen loads of work show up on those job boards out there where people are looking to outsource their work. It’s definitely the way to go. I’m getting more and more into it - kind of taking the edge off the unknown and diving in head-first.

But there are moments when I’m not so rich shall we say and I’ve got things I want to do, but the money is always holding me back. Great ideas, cool designs… and they sit around… and sit around - and either the opportunity passes or I lose interest because it took too damn long to implement. It’s really very frustrating… and I’m thinking I’m not the only one.

So the other day I pushed on with barting services. I have this site - and I have the ability to offer advertising here for anyone who knows how to convert a PSD to WordPress - shiny widgets and all… and I’d give them 3 months of advertising for it.

This sort of bartering… if I found the right person for the job - who didn’t mind this sort of deal making… I mean could ultimately lead to a pretty cool relationship down the road if I take my templates and use them for the beautifying factor of other sites… where people pay for them… which means… an opportunity to make money. See the possibilities are there.

But I mean - would we all be more productive if say we didn’t give cold hard cash - but instead had a chance to offer other things… like online advertising in lieu of cash. Of course I realize that cash is the way to go. It speaks volumes. But it also silences creativity for those of use who aren’t always flush with it… cash. I’m personally a bit tired of not being able to do more online. Maybe I’ll need to take a course or two on coding… read more… understand it… and then I could become a designer AND a developer. Because seriously there is money to be made being able to do both.

Would you be willing to barter skills or would cash be what speaks the most to you?

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Comments to “Have you ever been limited by your skills”

Patrick Says:
September 22nd, 2007 at 7:11 am

Regarding limitations, certainly. I’ve dealt/I deal with the exact same issues. I’m not a programmer. Early on, I had to learn and do what I could with what was available. If I needed a custom backend… chances are that there was an idea that would have to wait. As such, I have a number of really interesting ideas that are simply above what I am able to do, technology wise. So, I have them saved (along with domain names, of course) for the day that that arrives.

These days, I have little money. Not a lot, but a little, so I have started paying people here and there to put together some of these ideas and I’ll continue to build them out that way.

Regarding cash/bartering… cash is going to be what speaks to most people. Just the way it is. But, bartering can still work, just with the right person. Generally speaking, it’s harder to find good people through bartering (with ads, etc., anyway) than it is with cash. But, then, that’s understandable.