How to Keep Your Design Project Estimates from Being Guesses
Here are 3 techniques for creating more accurate project estimates. I’ll also share some tips and resources to make your estimates more effective.
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Unique Selling Proposition as It Relates to Freelance Designers
Learn how to stand out from the competition and how to easily show potential clients why they need to hire YOU!
Client Acquisition Tips from 11 Freelance Design Experts
One of the best ways to learn how to gain new clients is to ask freelance design experts. Below, 11 design experts give their advice on client acquisition.
How to Stop Putting Off That Rate Increase and Double Your Income
Here you’ll learn the signs that it’s time for a rate increase. We share some rate increase strategies and give you some sites to use as a guideline.
7 Tips for Closing the Sale (for Web Designers)
Here are a few tips for improving communication throughout the process that will help you to land a higher percentage of your potential clients.
Establishing a Client Intake Process
Having a process for client intake can help to streamline the process and save time. Here we explain the importance of establishing a client intake process.
What Freelancers Must Know about the Hot New Trends, Coworking & Hives
In this post, we’ll take an closer look at coworking and the latest freelancing trend, hives. We’ll examine some of the benefits (and drawbacks) of each.
A Web Designer’s Guide to Marketing on Facebook
This article shares the right tips and tools that will help you efficiently make the most of your marketing efforts on Facebook.
Essential Tips to Cold Calling Your Design Services Like a Pro
Done the right way, a cold call still works, even for designers. You just have to the essential tips to cold calling your design services like a pro.
12 Essential Tools to Build Your Online Portfolio
As a creative professional, you need a repository of your work that you can show other people. This post highlights 12 tools to build your portfolio.
5 Important Email Templates for Freelance Designers
In this article we’ll take a look at 5 specific types of email templates that you may want to have on hand in order to save yourself some time.
Ghost: How The World’s Fastest Growing Blogging Platform All Began
From Freelance Designer to Startup Founder – Interview with John O’Nolan who started the world’s fastest-growing blogging platform by starting small.