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Existing vs. New Clients – Who Should Get the Bigger Share of Your Attention?

Existing vs. New Clients – Who Should Get the Bigger Share of Your Attention?

Many business owners, nowadays, are of the view that when you understand your client, you have them hooked up with your product of service forever. However, in my views, knowing…

How to Promote Your Freelance Business with Social Media

How to Promote Your Freelance Business with Social Media

With the many privatized design agencies, it’s common to see freelancers growing in numbers. Illustrators and digital artists are among the most prominent freelancers in graphics and design work. It…

40 Amazing Papercraft Templates for the Geek Inside You

40 Amazing Papercraft Templates for the Geek Inside You

When considering papercraft, your first thought will most likely be of all that boring stuff you made in school, like paper flowers, printable seasonal cards or even scrap-booking. It doesn’t…

What is the Preferred Operating Systems of Designers?

What is the Preferred Operating Systems of Designers?

The ever-changing culture of web design has grown into a wild array of sub-standards. Over 20 years now, designers from all over the world have contributed their brilliant ideas to…

Tips for Converting Your Freelance Operation into a Business

Tips for Converting Your Freelance Operation into a Business

Having spoken with many freelance web and graphic designers over the years, I can say I have heard some extraordinary tales. The path from freelancer to single business is an…

Thoughts on why Spec Work is Bad and Why You Shouldn’t Do It

Thoughts on why Spec Work is Bad and Why You Shouldn’t Do It

Speculative, or ‘Spec”’, work is in hot debate at the moment in the design industry. Design contest websites in particular have created a furore of debate over freelancers working initially…

Tips for Compromising Between Designers & Developers

Tips for Compromising Between Designers & Developers