What Do Freelance Clients Actually Care About?
A lot of freelance designers find themselves stuck in the same place, year after year, serving the same types of clients despite their desire to move …
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How to Keep Your Design Skills Fresh
A designer’s skill set can very quickly become obsolete in this day and age. Designers need to know more skills than ever before, and client expecta…
5 Ways Professionalism Overload Hurts Your Design Career
Being a professional is something that most designers dream of accomplishing. After all, it’s the happy medium between knowing your stuff, getting p…
How to Get Buzy People to Answer You
In business, there is a right way and a wrong way to do just about everything. This certainly extends to asking for favors or any other kind of help f…
5 Ways to Monetize Your Old Designs
After a couple of years as a freelance designer, you’re going to build up quite a collection of work you’ve done for clients, and ideally, for you…
Building and Hiring an Awesome Team
At some point in your design career, you’ll likely be placed in charge of other people. These might include writers, marketers, programmers, enginee…
Roleplaying as Plumber Can Improve Your Freelance Business - Here's Why
Ever hear the phrase ‘starving artist’? Given the current state of the freelance design world — especially among less experienced designers — …
Why Alienating Potential Clients Can Be A Good Thing
Does your client roster read like the advertising section of a newspaper? Do plumbers, veterinarians, landscapers, dentists – any and every type of …
How Telling Stories Can Nail You More Clients
Everyone is a storyteller. Stories are how we explore our surroundings and communicate with others, whether it’s to persuade them, inspire them, o…
You Sure You Want to Be a Freelance Designer?
Are you getting sick of the daily grind of commercial creativity – having to be creative on command for a client with a specific idea in mind? I kno…
Boost Your Visibility as a Designer with Strong Opinions
As a designer, I have a lot of opinions on design, both as a user and as a creator of design content. And if you’re a designer, I’m sure you do as…
It’s Good for Designers to Write Their Own Copy, Here’s Why
Designers tend to freak out when they hear the word “writing.” That’s not my job; someone else will get paid to do that – right? Well, not alw…