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Hi, I recently got an email from someone asking about the skills needed to start a web design business: 1. Is it essential to know how to build DATABASE DRIVEN WEB PAGES to become a web designer
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Starting a web design business – two questions.
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Last week I was reading an article in How Magazine, titled “An Irreversible Movement,” by David C. Baker. The article was actually two essays, one by Baker and one by Debbie Millman, with each author taking a different side on crowdsourcing and it’s impact on design and designer’s.
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Is Design A Commodity?
Last weekend I finally bought an iPad (at least for me as I write this. 2 weekends ago as you’re reading) and thought I’d share some initial thoughts about using it so far as well as some thoughts about how I can see myself using it a few months down the line.
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Initial Thoughts About The iPad
Online advertisements can be very effective, but only if they are done tastefully and tailored to the right audience. I was considering this recently as I was spending time on a social networking site. I provide a limited amount of information about myself on my page, some of which includes my age (late 20s), that I am married and that I enjoy running.
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How Effective Are Online Advertisements?
In what one Facebook spokesperson is calling a “frivolous” suit, a New York web designer is suing the online social networking giant Facebook, Inc., claiming that he has 84 percent ownership of the wildly successful company, reports the Wall Street Journal . The suit stems from a 2003 contract between designer Paul D. Ceglia and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg which allegedly says that Ceglia would pay $1,000 to develop and design a website and eventually receive a 50 percent stake in the product, plus an additional 1 percent interest in the business for every day after Jan.
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Web Designer Says He Owns Large Chunk of Facebook
A few weeks ago Amber Weinberg wrote a post for Freelance Folder on Learning How to Freelance without Clients . It’s a topic that’s frequently on my mind and it’s the post that inspired me to write this series about running a freelance business. The definition of a freelancer is a person who sells services to employers without a long-term commitment to any of them.
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How To Scale Your Freelance Business
Today we decided to give you some inspiration; business cards are an important and also fun aspect to branding oneself or company, especially when you’re in the business of design. I tried to choose a variety that covered a broad selection not just the gimmicky and in vogue cards that whilst being creative and original can be over done.
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15 Fantastic Business Cards for Your Inspiration
The Evolution of The Logo Logo design has been a controversial subject in the design press lately. One branding professional recently claimed that logo design is not that hard to do and another said that logos are dead; some rebutted while others concurred. Why all the fuss
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Technology experts, designers and the average consumer have long anticipated the arrival of the newest installation to the iPhone family, number four. iPhone 4 has made impressive improvements to previous iPhone models while at the same time experiencing several design shortcomings. Below are a few examples of both for you to decide for yourself whether the iPhone 4 is a flop or a success.
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New iPhone Leaves Techies and Designers Unsure
If you could go back in time to the moment you first started freelancing, what is the single most important piece of advice you would give yourself? Would you spend more time developing a specific skill set? Would you tell yourself not to take on that CFH – Client From Hell?
When you’re a traditional freelancer, you’re always constrained by your individual capacity to produce work. In fact, after talent, knowledge and experience, time is your most important resource. And since there are only so many hours in a week, you need to treat that time with great care
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What Is Your Ideal Client Profile?
Last week I offered some thoughts about getting started as a freelancer . Today I want to talk a little about growing your business once you’ve managed to get things running
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Tips For Growing Your Freelance Business
If you’ve been to a bookstore or library lately, you’re quite aware that there’s no shortage of business books. However, you probably have a shortage of time for reading them. As an avid reader and freelancer, I’m going to give you some tips on how to read books about business — everything from small business books to advice from Fortune 500 CEOs.
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Profiting from Business Books: How to Read Books About Business
There are some people in the world who love the challenge of “cold calling” – that is to say, they enjoy calling people who they have never met, have never had any contact via email or phone, and asking them whether they need your product or service. But what about those people who DO contact you and ask about your products and services? Do you follow-up with those “warm” phone calls and emails?
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Why Marketing Fails #3: No Follow-Up
Are you doing anything to develop your current clients into bigger clients? Do you have a few small clients that you enjoy working with, but they aren’t giving you quite enough work to keep you busy? You might think I spent a bit too long working under the golden arches, but I think it’s better, and easier, to develop the clients you like working with instead of finding new ones.
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How to Upsell Your Services as a Freelancer
A growing trend for some companies is to hire freelancers for a full 40 hours (or occasionally more) per week. These freelancers have to show up to the office on time, handle whatever work is on the agenda, work on an indefinite basis and generally act like employees
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Permalancing: Full Time Freelancing with a Client
credit: Shutterstock Poor PC freelance users, we never get the love we deserve! So to help rectify that, I took some time to round up the best 50 PC apps that freelancers can use in their business, in no particular order. Everything from time tracking apps and online storage apps, to anti-virus apps and instant messaging apps, well-known favorites to new-comers in beta, we got a comprehensive list of PC applications to help you organize your digital workflow. 1.
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Cool PC Apps: The Top 50 PC Applications for Freelancers
One of the questions I’m often asked is how I got started working for myself. How did I pick up clients early on. It’s something I’ve written about in the past, but also something I know people are interested in learning.
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