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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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Are Design Client Meetings a Thing of the Past?

Are Design Client Meetings a Thing of the Past?

Freelance Design / Web Design

Debating whether client meetings have become obsolete in the digital age, exploring alternatives for collaboration.

Why the Grumpy Designer Will Keep Working from Home, Thank You

Why the Grumpy Designer Will Keep Working from Home, Thank You

Freelance Design / Web Design

The Grumpy Designer’s declaration to continue working from home, valuing comfort over office life.

Blog Posts Your Web Design Clients Wish You Would Write

Blog Posts Your Web Design Clients Wish You Would Write

Web Design

As a web designer, your website is the single most deadly tool in your marketing arsenal. Here is your chance to really make an impression on visitors to your site…

The Client is Always Right Poster Series

The Client is Always Right Poster Series

Inspiration

No matter what type of business you are in, hearing the words ‘the client is always right’ will make you cringe. In design, those words will not only make you…

How to Deal with Creative Differences with Clients

How to Deal with Creative Differences with Clients

Web Design

Strategies for handling creative differences with clients, ensuring a productive outcome without compromising the project’s vision.

When to Point Web Design Clients Towards Third-Party Services

When to Point Web Design Clients Towards Third-Party Services

Web Design

The role of third-party services in web design, how they can enhance your projects, and considerations for their use.

Things I Hate about My Clients

Things I Hate about My Clients

Freelance Design / Web Design

In the Things My Clients Hate. What about Yours? article I discussed 5 things my clients hate. Now, let me present the other side of the story – i.e. 5…

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

Web Design

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 Design

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

Design

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…

Six Questions to Ask Before You Start a New Project

Six Questions to Ask Before You Start a New Project

Web Design

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?

Web Design
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