How to Change Your Professional Focus with Minimal Downtime
As you progress through your career as a freelance designer, you may discover that the kind of work you’ve been happily doing for years just isn’t…
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When to Say “No” to Clients For Freelancers
We’ve all heard it before. The inevitable request from a client to revise a design to make it more… something. The client isn’t sure what exactl…
How to Create Your Ideal Client Profiles For Freelancers
As freelancers, one of the most important questions we can ask ourselves is ‘what do my clients really want?‘ In order to find out, you have to fi…
How to Take on and Handle More Design Work
If you’re a freelance designer, there will probably come a time when you will either want or need to take on a few extra clients. However, it can be…
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 …
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 …