Running a Web Design Business
Web Articles
- SNAP Summit » Blog Archive » 7 Things I …
- 10 Surefire Ways To Burn Money | Internet Marketing Strategy: …
- Top 10 Web Design Trends for 2010 | Web Design Tutorials and …
- Fire the “web designer”
- Juggling Multiple Clients
4 quick points to keep in mind as you prioritize your clients. - Making Your Content Management System Work for You: An …
Why content management systems fail and what designers can do to avoid this. - A List Apart: Articles: CMS and the Single Web Designer
Although dated, still a good introductory discussion of content management systems as they related to designers.
Resource Sites & Magazines
- The Secret to Landing Clients Nearly 100% of the Time - …
The author discusses how he stumbled on a process-based for turning prospects into clients. - Vitamin Features » The 5 hidden costs of running a CMS
Discusses the hidden costs of setting up and using a content management system. Webvanta can help insure these costs are minimized. Ask us how! - Professional Web Design Forums | How-To | Smashing Magazine
Explores how forums can meet your needs instead of waste your time.
Blogs
- Setting client expectations for search engine rankings and …
Focused on SEO, full of helpful advice for creating reasonable expectations concerning search results for your clients. - Client Juggling: The Art of Handling Multiple Projects
Read the story of someone who started from scratch and learned as she grew. - How to juggle time between multiple clients | IT Consultant …
Don’t let the focus on IT consultant scare you away. The challenge of learning to handle many clients is the same. - When a Client Doesn't Like Your Work - FreelanceSwitch - The …
“This article caters to situations when you’ve really done all you could…” - SitePoint
Industry news and trends for professionals.
Articles
- Search News, Press Releases, and Summaries
Smartbrief is a media company which compiles and publishes email newsletters and posts links on its site covering many topics in 20 industries. They work with trade associations to make it freely available. You can search right on their site.
Books
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Managing The Professional Service Firm
Although focused on consultants, the learning can help you create the vision of where you are going.
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More Balls Than Hands: Juggling Your Way to Success by Learning to Love Your Mistakes
The author uses his experience as a former professional juggler to provide a good guide for learning how to juggle projects in business and in life.
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Organize Your Start-Up : Simple Methods to Help you Start the Business of Your Dreams
Publishers Weekly: Simple Methods to Help You Start the Business of Your Dreams takes readers step-by-step through the “exhausting and exhilarating” aspects of going independent. Their first rule of thumb: “If the research about the business potential of your venture looks promising, don’t let others dissuade you.” From there, the organizing begins. What’s more, Eisenberg and Kelly don’t just help readers get a venture started; they coach them on how to stay organized so that they can keep their startup running.
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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
A simple and straightforward five-step system for how to behave in negotiations.
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Helping the Client: A Creative Practical Guide
This book presents different forms of helping behavior which can be adopted by any practitioner working face-to-face with a client.
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A Designer's Research Manual: Succeed in Design by Knowing Your Clients and What They Really Need (Design Field Guides)
Doing research can make all the difference between a great design and a good design. Most experienced designers would quantify this “legwork” with the term research. By engaging in competitive intelligence, customer profiling, color and trend forecasting, etc., designers are able to bring something to the table that reflects a commercial value for the client beyond a well-crafted logo or brochure.
