Setting up a web design business seems easy to the layperson. After all, every business, every brand and, virtually, everybody needs a website, right? However, there are a few pitfalls that everybody falls into when they're starting out in this great industry. A few years ago I started … [Read more...]
How To Work From Abroad Without Your Boss Finding Out
"At least sardines have space for tomato sauce between them!" The shocked lady said as we squeezed on a London commuter train. At least sardines swim around freely before they're packed into tins, I thought. Ten years ago, I disliked having to go to work (understatement of the … [Read more...]
8 Questions To Ask Before The First Website Design
It's an enormous privilege to create a client's first website. They have chosen you from millions of other web designers/developers and companies out there – and they could have tried to do it themselves. But now you have secured a new bit of business, it's not the time to congratulate … [Read more...]
How Web Designers and WordPress Developers Can Get Clients Online
I have worked with over 200 clients who've contacted me though this site since 2006. It always amazes me how WordPress developers especially don't use WordPress to get more work. Stick with me on this one. There's a lot of good stuff here about what works NOW, even though SEO, Google and online … [Read more...]
Don’t Be A Web Designer
I write a lot about my web design business on this blog. I have also two successful products called Running A Web Design Business, an e-book and a video course. But I always say that you shouldn't provide only a web design service. This is because, since I started the business in 2006, only … [Read more...]
Ideas into Pixels: Designing Websites For Clients
As web designers, we are regularly engaged in one of the most challenging practices: transforming ideas into pixels. The process starts with a conversation and ends up with a website but, how do we get there? Is it always via the same route? How can we avoid some of the pitfalls? The initial … [Read more...]
Justify Your Web Design Work To Your Clients
One of the biggest mistakes we as web designers can make is thinking that our creative work will sell itself. It,s an easy mistake to make. After all, when a client chooses me out of all of the other web designers around, I feel like they made the choice because they implicitly trust what I will do … [Read more...]
How To Increase Your Web Design Prices
Web designers are, generally, afraid to raise their prices. However, a good web designer will develop a website for a client that, if regularly updated, will be a powerful marketing tool for years to come. And, that,s worth money. The client billing life-cycle Usually, if you,re billing for … [Read more...]
Download Free Web Design Proposal
It's great when new client calls up. Sometimes I really fall in love with the potential site. :) But, as always in business, it's important not to get too emotional and to back up your enthusiasm with cold hard figures and a professional-looking web design proposal. Please feel free to download … [Read more...]
How To Deal With Nightmare Clients
Wait ... did someone say nightmare clients? Well, they do exist. To some they're known as "late payers", others refer to them as "time wasters", I like to call them "ex-clients". But here's our definition of a nightmare client: a client who either wastes time or money (which is, essentially, … [Read more...]
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