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Category Archives: advice
Learn From My Mistakes™: So You Want To Be A Success
A friend and former coworker of mine is venturing into business for himself: a “have IA – will travel” enterprise, if you will. He’s enjoyed my past entries about freelance and has mentioned (more than once) that we should talk … Continue reading
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Tagged clients, communication, DIY, freelance, IA, keep it simple, preparation, project lifecycle, project management, risk management
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Designer, Developer… Ambassador?
We interrupt VeganMoFo to address a question I was sent regarding payment after completing a project without having a contract. What sucks most about this type of situation is that you can end up looking like the bad guy if … Continue reading
Anything helps. God bless.
Yesterday I received a tweet asking if I knew anyone looking to hire a designer for work. I didn’t know the twitter user but he is not the only person who has contacted me in hopes I could either use … Continue reading
Ms Miriam Aarons: Patron Saint of Freelance Design
Charging by the hour tells your clients that you mean business. Time is money and you’re keeping the meter running with every meeting and phone conference. No matter how many times I set limits on design iterations or halted work when … Continue reading
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Tagged design, flat-fee, freelance, keep it simple, Miriam Aarons, project management, Sylvia Fowler, The Women, time management
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Web Design: A Primer
Last Saturday evening I received an e-mail from a friend: I wonder if you have already developed, from lots and lots of years of cohorts asking you stuff like this, a primer à la So You’re Thinking of Freelance Web Design … Continue reading
A Bulletproof Design Contract
The biggest mistake any designer can make is committing to work without a written agreement between oneself and the client. A verbal agreement provides little to no protection in a business transaction since physical proof of what terms were mutually … Continue reading
The end of print web
So let’s have a chat about blogs and newspapers. Seattle is home to many a newspaper, now one less with the passing of Seattle Post-Intelligencer in print format, two of which are free weekly publications: Seattle Weekly and The Stranger. … Continue reading
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Twitter: not just for introverted geeks
Timing is everything on the Internet, which means I need to set aside more time to compose my thoughts. But that’s another post for another time. So, like, what’s this twitter stuff people in the states seem to be fond … Continue reading
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Great Client Expectations
Get burned enough times and you find yourself coming up with trademark phrases like Learn From My Mistakes™. A lot of little mistakes with past projects added up to one giant mistake: overlooking the importance of risk management. During the … Continue reading
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Please check your ego at the door.
A freelance copywriter sent me a review questionnaire asking “Is there anything you’d like to see improved?”. I replied to this question with specific details of the copy deck that was sent to me for inserting into the client’s website: … Continue reading