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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 Improve Client Email Communication for Web Designers

How to Improve Client Email Communication for Web Designers

Freelance

From setting expectations to managing feedback, we’ll show you how to keep your clients informed and engaged throughout the design process.

It’s Task Management, Not Time Management

It’s Task Management, Not Time Management

Freelance / Web Design

We share some essential tips that designers and developers should use to help manage their time so they can work more efficiently.

What to Do When a Web Design Client Leaves

What to Do When a Web Design Client Leaves

Freelance

Undoubtedly clients come and go. Some, you’ll know it’s coming. Others may be a surprise. Regardless, you need to know how to deal with the situation.

Sifting Through Design Information Overload

Sifting Through Design Information Overload

Freelance / Web Design

Tips for managing the overwhelming amount of design information available online, focusing on what’s most relevant and beneficial.

How Freelance Designers Can Thrive in a Tough Economy

How Freelance Designers Can Thrive in a Tough Economy

Freelance / Web Design

Whether the economy has your business sputtering or not, it’s important to think about ways you can kickstart growth in your own little corner of the web. And we’re here to help.

How to Deal With Your Ego as a Designer

How to Deal With Your Ego as a Designer

Freelance

Every designer must learn to deal with criticism and their ego because suggestions and opinions often prove helpful to the design process.

What to Look for When Hiring a WordPress Expert

What to Look for When Hiring a WordPress Expert

WordPress

WordPress is an incredibly flexible Content Management System (CMS). Through the use of themes and plugins, you can build just about any type of website that you can dream up….

How Subscription Fatigue Impacts Web Designers

How Subscription Fatigue Impacts Web Designers

Freelance / WordPress

Everything’s a subscription. And it impacts web designers and their clients in numerous ways. Let’s look at what this means for our industry.

Why It Takes Commitment to Work with Clients

Why It Takes Commitment to Work with Clients

Freelance

It’s crucial that we as web designers not only focus on a project’s outcome, but on our relationships with clients as well.

Performing a Yearly Analysis of Your Design Business

Performing a Yearly Analysis of Your Design Business

Freelance

The importance of conducting a yearly analysis of your design business for growth, improvement, and strategic planning.

Understanding What Your Web Host Won’t Do for You

Understanding What Your Web Host Won’t Do for You

Freelance / WordPress

Learn why your web host may not cover all your needs and what steps you can take to ensure your website runs smoothly and efficiently.

The Impossible Question: How Long Does It Take to Build a Website?

The Impossible Question: How Long Does It Take to Build a Website?

Freelance / Web Design

We look at the many factors that can impact a web design project’s launch date and share tips for determining its length more accurately.

Reasons to Say “No” to a Web Design Project

Reasons to Say “No” to a Web Design Project

Freelance / Web Design

There’s no shame in saying “no” to a project. That can be a difficult lesson to learn – but very much worth the effort.

Examining the Evolution of the Typical Web Design Client

Examining the Evolution of the Typical Web Design Client

Freelance

There has been a lot of change in client attitudes and expectations over the years. We take a closer look at some of the common themes.

The Five Forgivable Sins of a Freelance Designer

The Five Forgivable Sins of a Freelance Designer

Freelance

The web is full of advice for freelance web designers. Certainly, I’ve offered up my share. But, while it’s often well-meaning, there is an unintended consequence. It can lead us…

Why Is Focusing on Long-Term Goals So Difficult?

Why Is Focusing on Long-Term Goals So Difficult?

Freelance
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