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Design Business: Industry Issues & Advice
Are you a design principal or in design management? Stay abreast on leading tips for smart growth strategies, self-promotion design advice and management issues. Experts in the industry and business consultants are tapped for leading advice on new business trends and sage wisdom for starting your own graphic design business.
Distinguishing Profitability vs. Cashflow in Your Design Business
A step toward an improving business at your graphic, web design firm is ending denial and fixing problems. Start by understanding profitability and cashflow.
6 Tips for Designers Working Remotely
Today, it’s not uncommon for telecommuter team members to be spread out across the globe. Consider these tips for managing remote working relationships.
Categories: Design Business: Industry Issues & Advice, Design Careers: Industry Advice & Job Search Tips, Design Management: The Process & Business of Design, On the Job: Advice & Tips for Designers
Tags: remote worker, remote working, team morale, telecommuter, virtual meetings, working remotely
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Creative Bliss Day 17: Selling Design Ideas With A Perfect Pitch
Do you ever ponder “How do I go about selling my best design ideas?” Find techniques to help you sell design ideas, including these tips for a perfect pitch.
How to Get New Clients: 4 Tips
Design business expert David C. Baker offers 4 strategies for how to get new clients. Start with these essentials and you’ll be finding new clients in no time!
Crowdsourcing Design: Pro or Con?
Is crowdsourcing an unfair business practice, or an unstoppable movement that’s not to be feared? Two design-industry experts weigh both sides of the argument.
10 Tactics to Build the Best Staff
You can start to build a better staff by tweaking your own management style, creating an environment that attracts the type of employees you most desire, and simply understanding what motivates people. Check out these 10 tips.
6 Tips for Generating Business Through LinkedIn
You may have established a LinkedIn profile, but you’re likely not taking full advantage of it. Learn how designers can maximize this social networking tool’s potential to find new client prospects.
Categories: Articles, Design Business & The Industry of Design, Design Business Clients: Communication & Management, Design Business: Industry Issues & Advice, Freelance Design Work & How to Freelance, HOW Magazine, March 2012 HOW Magazine, Self Promotion for Graphic Design & Designers
Tags: clients, freelance, LinkedIn, marketing, self-promotion
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Mastering the Power of “No” in Client Relationships
Caring is good, but it also can be dangerous when you don’t know where to draw a line in a client relationship. Business expert David C. Baker divulges tips for when to say “no” in order to run your design business more effectively.
Categories: Design Business & The Industry of Design, Design Business Clients: Communication & Management, Design Business: Industry Issues & Advice, Design Firm Owners, Design Management: The Process & Business of Design, Featured
Tags: business tips, client relationships, mind your own business, profit
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Take HOW’s Design Salary Survey
Admit it: You’re curious to know how your paycheck compares to those of your design colleagues in similar positions. HOW’s 2012 Design Salary Report will have all the answers, but we need your help!
Ask Yourself These 10 Questions to Better Self-Promote in the New Year
Make 2012 your business’ most successful year yet. As the new year begins, ask yourself these 10 provocative questions that can prompt a fresh look at your firm and how you will promote it.
