There has never been a better time to start a web design business. Although the western world’s economy is stagnant and demand flat the opportunities for entrepreneurs are enormous. If you have a passion and love for the internet, you can do it. You don’t need a lot (in fact you just need a laptop, [...]
This is the best time ever to start and grow your own business. Lack of demand forces businesses to get creative. During the good times when the phone rings off the hook and orders are flooding in, energies are directed towards coping with work flow. I have found diversification has increased my revenue substantially. The [...]
WordPress is the best CMS (Content Management System) for business websites. There are many successful business websites that use WordPress, for example Ford, The Wall Street Journal and Sony. WordPress is usually chosen to power a company’s website because it creates websites that are well-structured for SEO and can rank highly in search engines it [...]
Your time is so precious and you have big plans. Here are 10 things you can do that will, hopefully, get you where you want to be … quicker! These tips will: improve your online presence improve the professionalism of your companies, and improve your network and create better relationships These tasks will take only [...]
We have many dreams when we were young. Some want to be rich. Some want to create great things. Some want to make a difference and do work that they enjoy. However, many of us find ourselves disillusioned by corporate structures when we start to work. If this has happened to you then, don’t worry, [...]
The continually changing nature of all things is central to Buddhist traditions. Everything will change. Great civilisations rise and fall. Great leaders eventually lose power. Even the philosophies and ideologies that people live their lives by change over time. So, the one thing that is certain in life is that nothing’s certain. Forget everything you [...]
Being an independent graphic designer and running your own business from home is the best life ever – at least that’s what we think. Here is a guide to the hardware, software and back-up used based on the answers from my representative sample of graphic designers. Further fascinating results from this survey can be found [...]
This is the second part of my survey of independent graphic designers working from all corners of the globe and it throws up some interesting results about how they charge. The first survey results concentrated on what designers do and how they make money. Questions about charging are the most common I get in my [...]
This guest article was written by Stefanie Kahls of twago, an outsourcing provider based in Berlin, Germany. I’ve written about outsourcing here before and I have used asian developers from time to time with great success. But there are right ways and wrong ways of doing it and here Stefanie lays out her modus operandi. [...]
Here are the first results from my graphic designer’s business survey. I am so grateful to everybody that participated. I surveyed designers that were mostly working from home and running their own businesses. Participants were from every continent and were spread over different design disciplines. They represented every level of experience – from people who [...]
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