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 … [Read more...]
How to Run a Graphic Design Business
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 … [Read more...]
Running Your Own Business By Adapting To Change
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 … [Read more...]
Survey Results: Graphic Designers’ Hardware, Software and Back-up
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 … [Read more...]
Survey Results: How Graphic Designers Get Paid
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 … [Read more...]
Outsourcing and Offshoring – How can you benefit
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 … [Read more...]
Survey Results: What Designers Do, How They Make Money and Where They Find Clients
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. … [Read more...]
How to Blog for Business
For me, blogging isn't about making money from advertising, affiliate marketing and selling products. It's not about that for the majority of bloggers either. But it is about business. All of my current clients have either contacted me through my website or are a result of a recommendation … [Read more...]
10 Ways to Build Better Client Relationships
Blindingly obvious opening statement: clients are very important to your business. Not only are they your number one source of income, but also more than half of your new business will come from existing clients and recommendations from them. I disagree with a lot of advice about client … [Read more...]
Small Business Growth – a Web Design Case Study
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had … [Read more...]
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