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How Freelance Designers & Developers Can Be Their Own Advocate

How Freelance Designers & Developers Can Be Their Own Advocate

Freelance / Web Design

Freelancers do not have a team to back them up when a client pushes limits. We cover client boundaries, payment rules, business hours, scope creep, and how to raise issues before they get worse.

Separating Your Personal & Commercial Design Work

Separating Your Personal & Commercial Design Work

Freelance / Web Design

Is there a difference between so-called “commercial” work and work that’s done purely for the joy of creating? Should they be separated?

Networking For Designers 101

Networking For Designers 101

Freelance / Web Design

We share some much easier and more effective methods for making networking connections as freelance creative designers.

How a Culinary Technique Could Make You a Better Freelancer

How a Culinary Technique Could Make You a Better Freelancer

Freelance

Incorporating the mise en place idea into your creative process allows you to prepare yourself to power through your work with less stress and fewer headaches.

How to Improve Your Communication With Clients

How to Improve Your Communication With Clients

Freelance

Improve your communication and get down to the nitty-gritty with clients, so that you won’t waste time assuming that they need to know things they don’t.

How to Deal With Sudden Client Designer Syndrome

How to Deal With Sudden Client Designer Syndrome

Freelance

We’ve all experienced when a client wants to make a change to your design that, as a designer, you can immediately tell will result in disaster.

How to Educate Clients About the Value of Your Services as a Designer

How to Educate Clients About the Value of Your Services as a Designer

Freelance / Web Design

Understand how to communicate the true value of your design services to clients, enhancing appreciation and compensation.

What New & Inexperienced Designers Be Learning

What New & Inexperienced Designers Be Learning

Design / Freelance

Today I’m speaking to those just getting started in design. Maybe you just graduated from design school, or you’ve read through all the fundamental lessons offered here and on other…

How to Specifically Cater to the Needs of Your Clients

How to Specifically Cater to the Needs of Your Clients

Freelance / Web Design

Tips for effectively meeting client needs without compromising your standards or creativity in the design process.

What Happened to the Great Plans For Your Design Career?

What Happened to the Great Plans For Your Design Career?

Freelance

So your great plans of achieving your design career goals are have been flushed down the drain. What happened? Is there a practical reason?

How Novice Designers Can Improve Their Client Rosters

How Novice Designers Can Improve Their Client Rosters

Marketing

We offer advice on what all you young designers out there can do to get in on the more exciting and high-paying projects in the design industry.

Why You Should Include Your Personal Passions in Your Design Work

Why You Should Include Your Personal Passions in Your Design Work

Freelance / Web Design
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