Running A Web Design Business From Home

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In order to run a successful web design business from home you need ability, dedication and a good business sense. But it’s not impossible. You can do it! I’ve just published my second e-book Running A Web Design Business. How to run a web design business from home It’s not easy to explain everything I’ve [...]

Five Minute Marketing Tasks to Improve Your Business Now!

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You know those little marketing tasks that we keep meaning to do are always pushed to the back of the day’s agenda? Sometimes alas, they never get done! I have a challenge for you: perform one of these five minute tasks now. If you hit a road block, leave a comment here and I’ll help [...]

Why You Suck at Charging Clients and What To Do About It

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You haven’t the slightest idea of your true worth and value to society. You’re underrating yourself and you need to look at the bigger picture. As children we are told that we are worthless until we are taught properly and then we can be let out into the world. Then after education we, most likely, [...]

How To Resell Web Hosting

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I always think a web design business should expand the services it offers. One obvious way to do this is to resell web hosting services to clients. So, what do you do? Purchase a Hostgator Reseller Account (affiliate link), charge your clients, sit back and watch the money come in? Right? Wrong! I’ve been offering [...]

How To Get Your Business To The Top Of Google

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How do you get your website in front of as many eyeballs as possible? How do you expose your products and services to the world? The answer is, of course, to get to the top of the Google search results. Keyword research and competitor analysis Don’t stop reading just because it’s a boring subheading!!! This [...]

How Your Business Can Compete Against Asia Outsourcing

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Asian economies comprise more than 4 billion people (60% of the world population) and you would have to have been living under a stone for the last 15 years not to have noticed the growing economic weight of the region. I’m glad to see the rise of emerging markets and hope it restores some much [...]

My Business Plan for 2012

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I would like to belatedly wish you all a very Happy New Year! I had planned to publish this post earlier. Time was increasingly an issue in 2011 and it looks just as elusive now! I’ve been reading my post from year ago on my business plan for 2011 and it was very interesting although [...]

Free Software for Web Designers

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There is certainly no need to be daunted by a financial barrier to entry when starting your own web design company. Don’t be put off by the price of Photoshop or the whole Creative Suite – there’s loads of free software for web designers that can help you keep costs down. Online image editors Photoshop [...]

Graphic Designers and Specialization

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How much should graphic designers or design companies specialize? Should they hone their skills and expertise to a particular niche? Or should they provide a range of services for their clients? Starting out When a graphic designer first starts out as a freelancer or when a new graphic design company has just set up, the [...]

The Skills You Need to Start an Online Business

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There has never been a better time to start an online business. Many people ask me what skills and abilities you need to do this. Obviously you need the technical skills necessary to create the product or perform the service you are selling. But that isn’t even half the story. Here are the skills that [...]

Download the free e-books "How to Market Yourself Online" & "Starting An Online Business"

How to get clients online and advice on starting up online!

  • Creating websites
  • Setting up WordPress
  • Writing blog posts
  • Getting links
  • Driving traffic to your site
  • Using social media
  • Getting clients
  • Getting found on Google
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