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What You’re Missing If You Don’t Challenge Your Clients

Posted August 28, 2008 in freelancenews Add Comment »

What You’re Missing If You Don’t Challenge Your Clients
Clients are very quick to challenge designers on their choices, however the doing the opposite is often met with tension. Because of this tension, some designers eventually give up and let the client dictate the work.

4 Ways Consulting Can Help Your Design Business

Posted August 28, 2008 in Business, Graphic Design, Web Design 11 Rockin' Comments »

I’ve been a freelance web-designer for a couple years now and I recently started offering consulting services. Honestly, at first I didn’t think it would help me get more design gigs, I just thought it would be one more income stream and figured I’d try it since I was already giving advice about design and usability to my clients.

Actually, offering consulting services is probably the best decision I’ve made in my freelance career so far (after going full-time freelance of course) I get more requests for design projects now than before I started offering it. Why?

There are 4 main reasons why I do consulting and how I think it helps my design business. Keep in mind that these can also be applied to any other business like writing, blogging, programming, etc… [Click here to read more →]

How to Read

Posted August 28, 2008 in freelancenews Add Comment »

How to Read
Who needs to learn how to read? After all, we all learned how to read fairly early in life, usually in elementary school, right? But do you know how to really read? More importantly, are you really reading?

9 Easy Usability Improvements for Blogs

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9 Easy Usability Improvements for Blogs
One of our primary goals as designers is to constantly improve the usability of our websites and blogs. Content, while very important, doesn’t help readers if they can’t easily get to it.

12 Things You Should Never Say to a Client

Posted August 27, 2008 in Business, Marketing 32 Rockin' Comments »

Most people in business will attest to having some clients that are completely awesome, and some clients that just plain stink. With the wide variety of people out there, it seems like this is a fact of life.

But is it?

The way that you talk with your clients can heavily influence their attitude and respect towards you. If you use the right language, and avoid talking yourself into a trap, it’s not too difficult to rid yourself of bad clients forever.

With that lofty goal in mind, here are 12 things you should never say to a client:
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What I Learned About Freelancing from Lucille Ball

Posted August 26, 2008 in Inspiration, Lifestyle 11 Rockin' Comments »

I have a confession to make. As a child, I grew up watching repeats of I Love Lucy.

One thing that I could count on every time I watched an episode is that I would end up laughing. Little did I know that I was also picking up on valuable truths that would serve me for a lifetime.

As a daffy and zany housewife, Lucille Ball’s character would seem to be the last place that a freelancer could find business tips. Well, if you’re thinking that, then you are wrong. Not only are there lessons to be learned from the I Love Lucy television series, there are also lessons to be learned from Lucille Ball’s life. Here are a few of them:
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