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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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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

Mastering the art of creating proposals that win clients by clearly communicating value and understanding needs.

The Grumpy Designer: Email Is the Worst

The Grumpy Designer: Email Is the Worst

The Grumpy Designer’s perspective on email communication, blending humor with practical advice for managing your inbox.

How to Deal with Creative Differences with Clients

How to Deal with Creative Differences with Clients

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

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

Why You Need to Prioritize PageSpeed in Discussions with Clients

Why You Need to Prioritize PageSpeed in Discussions with Clients

For the past few years, small and medium businesses (SMBs) across the world have been told that making their websites mobile-friendly, and embracing a mobile-first world, were essential for business…

7 Questions to Ask your Client as a Freelancer

7 Questions to Ask your Client as a Freelancer