My Business Plan for 2012

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I would like to belatedly wish you all a very Happy New Year! I had planned to publish this post earlier. Time was increasingly an issue in 2011 and it looks just as elusive now! I’ve been reading my post from year ago on my business plan for 2011 and it was very interesting although [...]

Graphic Designers and Specialization

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How much should graphic designers or design companies specialize? Should they hone their skills and expertise to a particular niche? Or should they provide a range of services for their clients? Starting out When a graphic designer first starts out as a freelancer or when a new graphic design company has just set up, the [...]

How to Start a Web Design Business From Home

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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, [...]

How To Diversify and Grow Your Design Business

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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 [...]

Small Business Growth – a Web Design Case Study

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“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 [...]

My design business plan for next year

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This time last year I resolved to get more involved in social media. So in 2010, I opened a Twitter account, a YouTube channel and engaged in many other sharing and social activities online. This has been a great success. It brings traffic to this site, wins me more clients and is making me better [...]

My business story

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“If you are successful at school; you will be successful in life” I wasn’t a great success at school. Even though I was sent to good schools, in order to get me to work hard, I was told “if you are successful at school; you will be successful in life”. As hard as I tried [...]

Freelance graphic designer and SEO

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The primary objective of this website is to attract clients to my design business. The two ways I try to achieve this are: Get other good websites to link to me with my desired keywords as the anchor text. For example, freelance graphic designer, designer in London, UK design services, are good phrases to explain [...]

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