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HOW Singles: Balancing Your Business
How many clients should you serve? In what categories? And where? Three consultants who work exclusively with creative firms offer advice to help you develop the ideal client mix for your business.
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Design Business Clients: Communication & Management
Do you check your client’s references?
Pam Saxon, Nashville designer, shares how she almost got burned by not checking on a too-good-to-be-true new client. Continue reading →
Categories: Design Business Clients: Communication & Management
Tags: client relations, freelancing
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Breaking My Own (Email) Rules
Does successful work-life balance mean you don’t respond to email outside of business hours? Here are copywriter Alisa Bonsignore’s rules (and exceptions). Continue reading →
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Tags: client relations, freelancing
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Abusive client — what would you do?
A designer tells of an opinionated (bordering on abusive) committee member and a project that’s lost its way. What would you advise her to do? Continue reading →
Get More Clients for Your Design Business
Want to get more clients? Check out this real-world client proposal, sample qualifying material, book excerpt and expert interview to learn how to find clients.
5 Tips to Getting Clients to Listen More
Do you ever feel like clients don’t listen to you enough? Here are five very specific suggestions to turn things around in your design business.
Changing a Client’s Perception of Your Design Business
Do you have a credible marketing plan for your graphic or web design business? Or, do you compromise positioning to get a client? See these 7 Ways to earn respect for your design business.
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.
Creative Bliss Day 14: Taming The Nightmare Client—You
HOW will be providing 30 creativity exercises for graphic, web design inspiration. No. 14: You yearn for creative freedom and control. So why is it such a nightmare when designing for yourself? Wrangle the worst critic of them all — you.
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!
How to Reject Rejection When Pitching New Biz
Actor-turned-writer/PR pro and blogger, Rob Biesenbach, with tips on pitching new business — a big challenge for creative freelancers. Continue reading →
Categories: Design Business Clients: Communication & Management
Tags: client relations, freelancing, self promotion, self-promotion
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