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Learn the best ways to find potential design clients, negotiate prices, market your services, and deliver high-quality work.

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When Chaos Invades: Keeping Your Freelance Business Going During a Crisis

When Chaos Invades: Keeping Your Freelance Business Going During a Crisis

I share thoughts on balancing life and business during chaotic times. I’m learning as I go, but here’s the good, bad, and ugly of it all.

The Grumpy Designer Wonders: Why Are Clients So Cheap?

The Grumpy Designer Wonders: Why Are Clients So Cheap?

We discuss cheap clients and how they limit what a designer can accomplish. And, how we can convince them to see the error in their ways.

Are Google’s Core Web Vitals Metrics Unreasonable?

Are Google’s Core Web Vitals Metrics Unreasonable?

We discuss what Core Web Vitals means to sites that run on a tight budget or content management system (CMS). Is Google asking too much?

How to Choose New Tools and Technology for Your Web Projects

How to Choose New Tools and Technology for Your Web Projects

A new tool or technology you haven’t used before can significantly impact you and your clients. That’s why it pays to consider things from every angle.

My Client Made Me Do It: True Tales from the Grumpy Designer

My Client Made Me Do It: True Tales from the Grumpy Designer

Enjoy humorous and relatable stories from the Grumpy Designer, offering a unique perspective on the design industry.

How the Web Kept the World Moving in 2020

How the Web Kept the World Moving in 2020

This year has proven that the web and its related technologies are essential. We look back at how the web kept us open for business and a whole lot more.

How to Adjust to Larger Web Design Projects

How to Adjust to Larger Web Design Projects

Strategies for managing and adjusting to larger web projects, ensuring successful outcomes and client satisfaction.

Are Design Client Meetings a Thing of the Past?

Are Design Client Meetings a Thing of the Past?

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

What Will the Freelance Web Design Business Look Like Post-Pandemic?

What Will the Freelance Web Design Business Look Like Post-Pandemic?

We’ve been wondering what things will look like post-pandemic and have taken a look at how things may change for freelancers once social distancing ends and we get back to normal.

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

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

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

Trying to Maintain ‘Business as Usual’ During a Quarantine

Trying to Maintain ‘Business as Usual’ During a Quarantine

Adapting to ‘business as usual’ during quarantine, offering insights for maintaining productivity and client relationships.

Blog Posts Your Web Design Clients Wish You Would Write

Blog Posts Your Web Design Clients Wish You Would Write

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

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 Losing a Big Client Changed My Career for the Better

How Losing a Big Client Changed My Career for the Better

A personal account of how losing a major client can lead to career growth and new opportunities in web design.

How to Find the Real Value of Social Media for Web Designers

How to Find the Real Value of Social Media for Web Designers

A few years ago, social media was the apple of every marketer’s eye. It was supposed to boost our businesses and provide a whole new level of engagement with potential…

There Are Questions Even a Grumpy Designer Can’t Answer

There Are Questions Even a Grumpy Designer Can’t Answer

I am not an advice columnist. Nor am I a mediator, lawyer or even an IT specialist. Like many of you reading this, I’m a web designer. In reality, this…

Use BugHerd to Visually Manage Feedback and Track Bugs Sponsored

Use BugHerd to Visually Manage Feedback and Track Bugs

Getting feedback from clients can be a real pain. Quite often, there’s a technical barrier that makes it difficult for them to describe issues they’re seeing or things they’d like…

How to Create Proposals Your Clients Will Not Refuse

How to Create Proposals Your Clients Will Not Refuse