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Learn how to communicate with design clients, set clear expectations, negotiate fees and deadlines, and handle feedback.

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How to Speak up to Your Clients When They Just Won’t Listen

How to Speak up to Your Clients When They Just Won’t Listen

Freelance

In 1996, I was an 18 year old web designer. Fresh out of high school, I was a bit shy and not very eloquent when expressing myself verbally. My first…

How to Determine the Real Wants of Your Freelance Clients

How to Determine the Real Wants of Your Freelance Clients

Design / Freelance

The freelancing world is filled with many complex skill sets and many artists; freelance designers are constantly trying to match their skills and talents to the demands of their clients….

What to Do When Your Graphic Design Client is Andy Pipkin

What to Do When Your Graphic Design Client is Andy Pipkin

Freelance

Andy Pipkin tells his poor duped friend Lou that he wants tickets to the opera for his birthday. Its an unusual request, as Andy has been seen to have a…

From Zero to Thriving Career: Getting Clients as a New Designer

From Zero to Thriving Career: Getting Clients as a New Designer

Freelance

Success as a freelance designer depends on the designer’s ability to build up a reputation for quality work and a long stream of loyal clients. A central tenet to landing…

Things My Clients Hate. What about Yours?

Things My Clients Hate. What about Yours?

Freelance

I have been a freelancer for almost a decade now and in the course of these years, I have had dozens of clients and hundreds of projects. While no two…

Six Questions to Ask Before You Start a New Project

Six Questions to Ask Before You Start a New Project

Freelance

I have been a designer for about thirteen years, and most of my business during the past two years has come from new clients. Many have been new up-start businesses,…

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?

Freelance / WordPress
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