What To Do When Your Clients Are Very Satisfied
There are plenty of articles about angry clients. But what do you do when you’ve finished a project and your clients are very very happy? Part your merry little ways? Absolutely not! After a project has been completed and you’ve heard the client tell you “You’re awesome! This is great!” Take advantage of that and...
Read more…What A Potential Client Doesn't Know CAN Hurt You
Many potential clients out there don’t know a thing about the web or about marketing in it. They may know they have a good product, but they don’t know how to get that across to their target audiences. I’ve found that the less a client knows about the web, the harder it is to sell...
Read more…Freelance Productivity Killers & How To Avoid Them
Ah what can be better than working from the comfort of your own office and your own computer right? You wake up in the morning with a nice cup of coffee and ready to take on a day of web work – that it until your phone rings off the hook, you’ve got 300 emails,...
Read more…When A Potential Client Asks You To Freelance…For Free?
If you’ve been freelancing longer than five minutes, you’ve run into a million of these types of potential clients. They’re the kind who start off so excited to tell you their business idea. They talk about what kind of website they’re absolutely dreaming of – a custom design, CMS, shopping cart, flash banner, 5 tiered...
Read more…Contribute Fridays: What Do You Enjoy Most About Freelancing?
Since it’s Friday and Fridays are awesome, let’s make a tradition. Every Friday I’m going to open up the blog post for all of us to answer a set question with your 5 best answers. Ready? Let’s go!
Read more…Business of the Web Part 3 : What does valid code mean to me?
As coding is my specialty, the last post of this series hits close to home. Many clients and non-developers can often see that a website looks bad graphically, but (unless broken) they can not see how bad a website looks behind the scenes. I’m talking about HTML and CSS. These things are the skeleton and...
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