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Design Firm Owners
When you own a design business, you face a whole new set of challenges including: long-term business planning, design management, attracting and positioning your firm for smart growth. David C. Baker, a small business consultant who specializes in the creative industry, wants to help you manage obstacles and achieve success when it comes to your design business. Look for his expert advice here.
David C. Baker of ReCourses, Inc, teams up with HOW to host the Mind Your Own Business Conference. MYOB is an opportunity for small firm principals to network in a non-competitive environment and learn from professional business consultants how to manage and grow their firms. Find out more about MYOB 2012.
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.
How to Become a Thought Leader
Thought leadership can give you leverage to pull prospects toward you when it comes to your design business. But how do you reach such a status? Keep reading.
Bringing Balance to Your Design Business
Understanding what mission drives your graphic or web design business will help you to better achieve balance (aka success). What drives your design firm?
The Keys to Design Business Success: Belief, Opportunity, Capacity
The path to success in your design business involves belief, opportunity and capacity. The end goal isn’t in sheer size, but in profitability and impact.
Do You Have a Design Hobby, Job or Company?
The lines can seem blurry. Design business consultant David C Baker will help you distinguish if your efforts are a design business, a design job or simply a hobby. Hint: Money is a good indicator.
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!
3 Business Tips for When You Have More Time Than Money
When your graphic design business is generating more money than time, you feel relaxed. But when business has been slow, learn how to make your design studio stronger.
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.
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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