7 Simple Ways to Raise Your Rates and Keep Your Clients
Raising your rates. It’s something that every freelancer wants to do, but most of us are scared to do. Or at the very least, we’re not sure how to do it.
It’s natural to have questions about rate-raising. Is my work worth more? Will my clients flee at the sight of higher prices? Will I be able to recover if they do go somewhere else?
Announcement: JoomlArt Magento Theme Club Membership Winners
JoomlArt, a theme club that provides its members with Joomla, Drupal, and Magento themes, offered up 5 Personal Memberships to the JoomlArt Magento Theme Club (JMTC) on a recent Six Revisions giveaway. Over 130 Six Revisions readers participated, and in this post, we reveal the winners.
10 Tips for Optimizing Your Website’s Speed
Web page speed and performance is very important to the user experience. If your site is too slow, you’ll not only be losing visitors, but also potential customers. Search engines like Google factor a website’s speed into account in search rankings, so when optimizing your site’s speed, you should take everything into consideration. Every millisecond counts.
Here are just a few basic and general suggestions for improving a site’s performance.
Do You Have a Mac or PC Persona in Your Design Work?
You know that "Get a Mac" ad campaign? The one where one person represents a Mac and the other a Windows PC? It’s obviously a cheeky way for Apple to differentiate itself from its competition, but the Mac versus Windows difference they portray is actually a good analogy and question for designers: When it comes to your design work, are you a Mac or a PC?
Giveaway: Joomla Online Training Classes at OSTraining.com
Do you need to learn how to build Joomla, WordPress, or Drupal sites for yourself or your clients? Do you need fast, accurate answers to your Joomla, WordPress or Drupal questions? OSTraining.com can help: they provide online training and support for all three CMSs. In this giveaway, five lucky Six Revisions readers will get 6 months of access to Joomla training and support. Read on to see how you can win this awesome membership access.
Client vs. Designer: Four Lessons to Win the Battle
Sometimes, the client/designer relationship is like an age-old matchup reminiscent of Ali vs. Frazier. Eagles vs. Cowboys. Yankees vs. Red Sox. Except in this game, the battle isn’t on the playing field — it’s in the boardroom, on the telephone, in an email. And this isn’t a game reliant on physical strength or technique; it’s about wits, expertise and political posturing. And unfortunately, there’s one team that wins 99% of the time. You guessed it: the client.
Are Current Web Design Trends Pushing Us Back to 1999?
In 1991, a groundbreaking and forever influential album was released by a then-unknown band called Nirvana, led by guitarist and lead singer Kurt Cobain. When that album appeared on the music scene, it was during a time when rock music was, in many respects, dead. Not to say that rock albums weren’t selling; for about a decade prior to that time, the rock music scene was dominated by Glam metal bands (also known as Hair metal bands) like Def Leppard, Warrant, and Poison.
