Google Insurance: 8 Steps to Protect Your Reputation
It doesn’t take much to set off a tsunami of public relations headaches in the digital world. As the last…
How to Deal With Nightmare Clients
Regardless of how smoothly your business may operate, no one is completely immune to criticism and controversy. With BP’s disastrous…
Charging Per Hour vs. Per Project
If you’re a corporate designer, you don’t have to worry about things like how to bill your clients, as you’re…
Working For A Web Design Agency
The most obvious job for a web designer is working for a web design agency, but if you’ve never done…
7 Personality Types of Clients Today
In previous articles, we discussed seven types of designers and seven types of developers. Designers and developers form two parts…
6 Tips for Pitching to Major Clients
Almost every major web designer faces this dilemma at some point: either continue working with “mom-and-pop” style businesses, enjoying effortless…
20 Reasons You Shouldn’t Be a Freelancer
We’ve all read countless articles on the reasons you should consider freelancing. They often make it out like anyone still…
The Ups and Downs of Being a Perfectionist
Almost everyone out there knows someone who’s a perfectionist, if they aren’t one themselves. Some people are perfectionists in only…
How to Be Corporate and Still Be Creative
If you’re like me, you graduated from art school and had dreams of working as an art director at a…
How to Deal with Feature Creep
If any assumption is safe, it’s that six months after launching a website (or sooner?), its owners will have a…
The Art of Branding Yourself and Your Freelancing Business
Just as it is for big corporations, successful branding is essential to the success of a freelancing business and to…
Freelancing and the Power of Partnering
When a business decides to outsource, it is looking for a solution. It has a pressing project but lacks the…