Graphic, Web Design and Marketing, London | Rob Cubbon
Design, marketing, graphics, internet, print, London
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 [...]
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 through my website. I advise most of [...]
I’m running a survey about graphic designers who run their own businesses – whether they work at home or have employees, outsource and run much larger companies. There are many design and business sites in the blogosphere. However, design sites tend to focus on tutorials and inspiration whereas there isn’t a great deal of information [...]
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 relationship management: “phone them up all the [...]
“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 [...]
This is a guest post from Bailey Digger about the realities of web design in challenging economic times. Some jobs are recession-proof while others suffer more when the economy is bad. Web design is not an essential service but there are several reasons why it can be considered recession-proof: Web designers can seek work in [...]
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