5 Self-Promotion Tips That Aren’t Sleazy
As a web designer, you’re probably having to constantly sell your ideas and promote yourself. You have to sell your work to your clients, your co-workers and your bosses.
The struggle, of course, is that self-promotion can be a tricky game to play.
7 Ways to Get More Referrals for Your Web Design Business
A long time ago, I heard one businessman ask another, "What can I do to help you out?"
The man thought for a moment, and then said, "The best thing you can do for me is refer someone else my way."
He was probably right. Because customers value the advice of people they know, referrals are often the best leads a business can get.
How Focusing on Today’s Work is Costing You Tomorrow’s
Articles on improving your career as a freelancer, instructions for landing projects, and even lists of great places to go for freelance work — it’s tough not to encounter them, with a great deal of the largest design sites focusing on helping their readers and members find projects to work on.
In fact, amongst design blogs, it’s tough to find one that doesn’t cover the business side of the freelance profession.
9 Tips for Emailing Important People
Editor’s note: This is an exclusive excerpt from the course, How To Email Important People.
As web professionals, we spend a significant amount of time communicating through email. In many cases, getting a fast response to our emails can mean the difference between enjoying our job and stressing about deadlines.
Here are 9 top-notch tips for writing emails that make it as easy as possible for the recipient to send you a response.
Things Worth Paying For as a Freelancer
A freelancer, like a baker, needs a few essential tools with which they create their products and use in order to offer their services.
Instead of pots, mixing bowls, spoons and an oven, a freelancer needs software.
5 Steps for Taking on Something New
It’s a scenario most solo web professionals find themselves in now and then: You have the opportunity to work on a project that includes something you haven’t done before, and that something is pretty big. Maybe it’s editing video for the web, conducting user-testing, or creating a mobile web design.
Whatever it is, it seems to be a capability worth adding to your repertoire.
Questions to Ask Yourself Before Becoming a Freelancer
The web is an ocean of information, advertising and communication that is attracting more and more professionals. The web as an industry is versatile and full of interesting fields that would satisfy people of all professional backgrounds.
