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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.
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 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!
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.
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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From Commuting to Telecommuting
Jeremy Flagg, our guru on eco-friendly freelancing, describes how he persuades clients to use Skype so he doesn’t have waste time traveling. Continue reading →
Categories: Design Business Clients: Communication & Management
Tags: client relations, clients, freelancing
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Build Your Client Base
Are you poised to pounce on any new-business opportunities? A business expert outlines 9 approaches to position your firm to build a client base now, even if you’re swamped, so that business can benefit better when things slow.
The Empathic Designer: 5 Tips for Better Collaborative Relationships
Design success is as often as much the result of the quality of the relationships formed with clients, as it is the quality of the design. David Holston, author of “The Strategic Designer,” offers 5 tips for better collaborative design relationships with clients.
Define Your Market
You’ve heard the advice: Choose a target market for your design business. But it’s a scary prospect to commit to one line of work. Here’s how to find the right fit for you.
