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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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The Freelance Design Situations You Need to Fix Right Away

The Freelance Design Situations You Need to Fix Right Away

We delve into some common freelance situations you’ll want to fix sooner rather than later and offer some useful solutions.

How to Manage High-Maintenance Design Clients

How to Manage High-Maintenance Design Clients

Believe it or not, there are some big-picture benefits of working with picky clients, and even gain from that otherwise-frustrating experience.

How to Deal with Your Freelance Design Mistakes

How to Deal with Your Freelance Design Mistakes

Learning to deal with mistakes is part of the secret to long-term success for web designers. And, as someone who has made more than their fair share of mess-ups, I can attest to what works and what doesn’t.

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.

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