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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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Simple Tips For Avoiding Working For Lower-Quality Clients

Simple Tips For Avoiding Working For Lower-Quality Clients

Lower-quality clients suck. All they focus on is how little they can pay. They make unreasonable demands for the amount of work they want you to do and how fast…

The Types of Freelance Design Clients You Should Avoid

The Types of Freelance Design Clients You Should Avoid

Learn how the right clients will respect your time and expertise, and will be realistic and professional in their expectations.

How to Deal with the Low Profit Areas of Your Freelance Business

How to Deal with the Low Profit Areas of Your Freelance Business

How to identify those areas of your web design business that are not performing well and how to decide whether they should stay or go.

How to Avoid Being Labeled as a Low-Cost Designer

How to Avoid Being Labeled as a Low-Cost Designer

Avoid being labeled as a low-cost designer with strategies to position yourself for higher-end projects and clients.

Things Every Website Owner Should Know

Things Every Website Owner Should Know

Essential insights every website owner must know to ensure their site’s success, from design to functionality.

Do Clients Need To Know How Their Website Works?

Do Clients Need To Know How Their Website Works?

We explore the challenges in educating clients about their websites. Along the way, we share thoughts on why knowing it all isn’t all that great.

The Unpredictable Life of a Freelance Web Designer

The Unpredictable Life of a Freelance Web Designer

Sometimes web designers need to shift gears faster than a Ferrari. How do we cope with it? And what can we do to lessen the need?

Ideas for Making the WordPress Back End More User Friendly

Ideas for Making the WordPress Back End More User Friendly

Introducing clients to the WordPress dashboard can be difficult, therefore, we need to improve the experience. Here are a few simple ways you can do that.

How Small Projects Can Benefit Your Web Design Business

How Small Projects Can Benefit Your Web Design Business

By and large, web designers are very passionate about their job. That stands out in contrast to most other industries. But when it comes to the bottom line, web design…

The Case for Slowing Down the Design Process

The Case for Slowing Down the Design Process

The benefits of slowing down the design process, leading to more thoughtful, creative, and satisfying work.

How to Deal With an Absentee Web Design Client

How to Deal With an Absentee Web Design Client

Prolonged silence from clients can be frustrating. There are only so many hours in a day, after all. Yet there is also frustration in their inability to consistently communicate with you.

How to Create Manageable Web Project Cost Estimates

How to Create Manageable Web Project Cost Estimates

Creating accurate and manageable cost estimates for web projects, ensuring transparency and client satisfaction.

How to Educate Your Clients About the Importance of Website Accessibility

How to Educate Your Clients About the Importance of Website Accessibility

Clients need to understand the importance of web accessibility. We’ve created this guide that will allow you to educate your clients.

How to Deal With Overly Opinionated Design Clients

How to Deal With Overly Opinionated Design Clients

We discuss how you as the designer can nip most design by committee in the bud, and show you how you can use it to your advantage.

How to Make the Most of Slow Times at Your Web Design Business

How to Make the Most of Slow Times at Your Web Design Business

From improving your marketing to diversifying your services, we’ll show you how to navigate those slow times in your web design business.

Your Web Design Business Has Grown: How Do You Manage Legacy Clients?

Your Web Design Business Has Grown: How Do You Manage Legacy Clients?

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?

How to Improve Client Email Communication for Web Designers

How to Improve Client Email Communication for Web Designers

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

How to Convince Web Design Clients to Put Users First

How to Convince Web Design Clients to Put Users First