Personally, I have noticed other recessions far sooner than this one. It seems like months and months of dreary economic forecasts had passed before I got an inkling that it was going on. Anyway, here’s some ways to defeat the dreaded downturn. Diversify Do something you’re not doing at the moment. Web designers should diversify [...]
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Article filed under: Business, Design, Marketing on July 19th, 2008 16 Comments
Recession, credit crunch, slowdown – these are bywords of the moment and you would be forgiven for thinking that we’ve got to tighten out belts and prepare for hard times ahead. The natural inclination for some businesses might be to scale back on marketing activities in an effort to save money. But, last week it [...]
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Article filed under: Business, Design, Freelancing, Marketing on July 2nd, 2008 20 Comments
This post only relates to the UK, I’m afraid. It’s a fact of life in this country (and probably all over the world) that many companies try to save themselves a little money by paying small businesses late. This has happened to me recently and it’s not nice. Always at the back of your mind [...]
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Article filed under: Business on May 19th, 2007 1 Comment
Before I start of this post I would like to ask you to think of an answer to this question: What one thing could you do that you aren’t doing now that if you did on a regular basis would make a tremendous positive difference to your personal or professional life? One book I enjoyed [...]
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Article filed under: Business, Self improvement on May 12th, 2007 13 Comments
I would advise anyone who wants to make money and find more work to get blogging. I was encouraged to get a WordPress blog by a friend but I didn’t really realise what blogging was at first. I thought, what’s the point of writing “I woke up this morning, had breakfast …”? I really only [...]
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Article filed under: Artwork, Business, Design, Freelancing, Internet on March 8th, 2007 17 Comments
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