5 Website Essentials (You Probably Aren’t Doing Right)

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A website is essential to a business in today’s economy. OK, scrub that. A website is essential to everyone in today’s economy. What are you going to do, whether you’re 18 years old, 28, 38, or 48 years old and looking for a job? Are you going to be shuffling round town armed with a [...]

Web Design Business Owner, Matt Shuey

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The latest in my oh-so remarkable series of interviews with design business owners is a great one. OK, I know I keep saying that but this one is great, believe me. The fantastic thing about this interview was that I didn’t really know Matt Shuey before I spoke to him. We were introduced via Google+ [...]

Passive Income and Business Report

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So, spring is here (ahem, it’s freezing outside) and it’s time for me to look back on the last quarter to see how I’ve done plus set some goals for the next 3 months. Last year, I made $8,553 passive income. And the year before (I wasn’t really counting) I made around $1000. So I’m [...]

I’m Selling My Sites! Bundle of Sites PR3, PR3, PR2, in Blogging/Tech and Other Niches

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This is a strange moment for me. I’ve never written a blog post like this before. My articles (hopefully) help people in some way. This one may help one person. It also may help me. As I am increasingly busy and after much thought and consternation, I have decided to sell HelloMyNameIsE.com(PR3), WPblogTalk.com (PR3) and [...]

DMP008: Travelling Graphic Designer Karen Mareš

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This is my 8th podcast and interview with an independent graphic designer. In this episode I talk to Karen Mareš, née Karen McDade, about travelling, Photoshop, design, clients, websites and life! Click here to subscribe to my “Design and Marketing Podcast” on iTunes! Have laptop, iMac, Cintiq; will design It’s probably misleading to describe Karen [...]

SEO for the Small Business

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Small business owners may be required to do many things. Selling, accounting, marketing … yes. But, master the dark arts of SEO? Surely not! You should, of course, be concentrating on creating the best products and providing the best services. That’s a “given.” But there is a reliable way of creating an ongoing stream of [...]

Freelance Designer or Design Business?

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Are you a freelancer or an entrepreneur? This question occurred to me while talking to Alex Mathers from the RedLemonClub a site that offers advice for the freelance creative. There was a time when I called myself a “freelance graphic designer” and had that as the title of this site. I wrote plenty of articles [...]

Annual Passive Income and Business Goal Report 2013

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Here is an end-of-year assessment of my “improvement” or “progress” with my passive income and business. Ever since this time last year, I’ve been more serious about setting goals and passive income targets and I’ve been sharing them here on my blog. Half way through the year, I reported on my progress on the first [...]

Web Designer and Businesswoman Randa Clay

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Randa Clay is a mother of two from Texas, USA. She has clients that she’s picked up from her portfolio site RandaClay.com and sells WordPress themes at DivaThemes.com. She also runs hugely successful kids websites at FreeStuff4Kids, FunPlace Database as well as Homeschool Roundup which is about teaching your kids at home rather than sending them [...]

Running Your Own Business & Doing Accounts

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Let’s just get this straight. This is not a boring article. Running your own business is sexy. Accounting is sexy. As a business owner, you’ll have a more challenging life. And, you’ll contribute more to the wider economy, as you will buy other goods and services for your company and you may even start to [...]

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