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How to Attract the Right Clients by Focusing on a Niche

How to Attract the Right Clients by Focusing on a Niche

Freelance / Web Design

Useful tips for good designers so that they can market themselves to the exact kind of clients that best suits their niche and services.

The Personal Process of Choosing the Right Design Tool

The Personal Process of Choosing the Right Design Tool

Design / Freelance

Tips on how the tools you use as a designer can help improve your creative process and aid you in creating work you can stand behind.

How to Deal With an Absentee Web Design Client

How to Deal With an Absentee Web Design Client

Freelance

Prolonged silence from clients can be frustrating. There are only so many hours in a day, after all. Yet there is also frustration in their inability to consistently communicate with you.

How Conquering Your Fears Can Make You a Better Designer

How Conquering Your Fears Can Make You a Better Designer

Freelance

Web design requires us to constantly juggle multiple projects and responsibilities. That can lead to fear and second-guessing.

How to Create Manageable Web Project Cost Estimates

How to Create Manageable Web Project Cost Estimates

Freelance

Creating accurate and manageable cost estimates for web projects, ensuring transparency and client satisfaction.

10 Things Designers Can Learn From Pastry Chefs

10 Things Designers Can Learn From Pastry Chefs

Design / Freelance

Regardless of whether you bake or not, you can take a lot of the same knowledge pastry chefs draw upon every day to improve your design work.

How to Let Go of That Failing Creative Idea

How to Let Go of That Failing Creative Idea

Design / Freelance

To help you not quit working on that creative idea, we explore some methods that you can use to finish every design project you start.

How to Deal With Overly Opinionated Design Clients

How to Deal With Overly Opinionated Design Clients

Freelance

We discuss how you as the designer can nip most design by committee in the bud, and show you how you can use it to your advantage.

How to Make the Most of Slow Times at Your Web Design Business

How to Make the Most of Slow Times at Your Web Design Business

Freelance

From improving your marketing to diversifying your services, we’ll show you how to navigate those slow times in your web design business.

Your Web Design Business Has Grown: How Do You Manage Legacy Clients?

Your Web Design Business Has Grown: How Do You Manage Legacy Clients?

Freelance / WordPress

One thing you may not expect with web design business growth is the continued pull of legacy clients. So, how can you keep old clients happy while forging ahead?

Develop Processes for These Web Design Tasks

Develop Processes for These Web Design Tasks

Freelance / Web Design

Small web design tasks can become inefficient, especially at scale. Developing new processes for these tasks can help.

How to Handle Indescribable Uniqueness in Design

How to Handle Indescribable Uniqueness in Design

Design / Freelance
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