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Freelance Clients

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

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How to Identify the Obstacles in Your Web Design Career

How to Identify the Obstacles in Your Web Design Career

We take a look at those common obstacles that can prevent your freelance career from moving forward, and share how you can get past them.

How To Survive a Nightmare Client

How To Survive a Nightmare Client

Dealing with a difficult client can be stressful, but with these practical tips and advice, you can survive and even thrive in the face of a nightmare client.

How to Bend the Rules to Accommodate Your Design Clients

How to Bend the Rules to Accommodate Your Design Clients

Navigating the delicate balance of bending rules to accommodate client requests while maintaining design integrity.

How ‘Lazy’ Price Estimates Can Cost Freelancers

How ‘Lazy’ Price Estimates Can Cost Freelancers

In an effort to help freelance designers, we explore how you can more accurately estimate costs and fill clients in on the details.

How to Deal with People Who Don’t Value Web Designers

How to Deal with People Who Don’t Value Web Designers

Even in this high-tech world in which we live, there are still people who think that anyone can build a great website.

How to Explain to a Client Why Investment in Their Website Is Crucial to Their Success

How to Explain to a Client Why Investment in Their Website Is Crucial to Their Success

Insights into why investing in a quality website is critical to success in today’s digital landscape.

The Perils of Being a Responsible Web Designer

The Perils of Being a Responsible Web Designer

The challenges of being a responsible web designer, focusing on ethics, accessibility, and user privacy.

How to Be Proactive with Your Web Design Clients

How to Be Proactive with Your Web Design Clients

We talk about it all the time. Being a web designer is about more than just clean code and pretty graphics. There are a number of other roles we play….

How to Help Clients Adopt New Business Models

How to Help Clients Adopt New Business Models

How can we best deal with these rapid changes? First, take a deep breath. Then, review the following tips for making the process as pain-free as possible.

How to Grow Your Web Design Business

How to Grow Your Web Design Business

By following these simple methods, and seizing the right opportunity, you may be able to jumpstart growth and expand your web design business.

How to Minimize Wasted Time during a Web Design Project

How to Minimize Wasted Time during a Web Design Project

Advice and tips for having more productive moments during your web design projects that will help to minimize any wasted time.

How to Not Shortchange Yourself When Inheriting a Website

How to Not Shortchange Yourself When Inheriting a Website