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What Happened to the Great Plans For Your Design Career?

What Happened to the Great Plans For Your Design Career?

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Freelance Design

So your great plans of achieving your design career goals are have been flushed down the drain. What happened? Is there a practical reason?

How Novice Designers Can Improve Their Client Rosters

How Novice Designers Can Improve Their Client Rosters

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Marketing

We offer advice on what all you young designers out there can do to get in on the more exciting and high-paying projects in the design industry.

25+ Best Free Serif Fonts for Creatives

25+ Best Free Serif Fonts for Creatives

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Fonts

A collection of the best free serif fonts currently available. Typefaces that beautifully combine aesthetics, functionality, and readability.

How to Increase Revenue From Your Existing Web Design Clients

How to Increase Revenue From Your Existing Web Design Clients

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Freelance Design / Web Design

Learn effective strategies to boost your revenue from existing web design clients, including upselling, cross-selling, and offering additional services.

Should a Web Designer Ever Provide Discounts?

Should a Web Designer Ever Provide Discounts?

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Freelance Design / Web Design

Discounting services is not really a good move. But, there are some scenarios where it does make sense to offer a lower price for services.

Why I Charge the Same for Building Websites Designed by Someone Else

Why I Charge the Same for Building Websites Designed by Someone Else

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Freelance Design

As a web designer, the vast majority of my new projects are original creations. The process goes a little something like this: I create a mockup, make revisions until my…

Things That Will Scare Your Web Design Clients

Things That Will Scare Your Web Design Clients

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Freelance Design / Web Design

Dealing with concerned clients can be a challenge for numerous reasons. I liken it to running around with a fire extinguisher, desperately trying to put out blazes large and small….

Separating Your Personal & Commercial Design Work

Separating Your Personal & Commercial Design Work

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Freelance Design / Web Design

Is there a difference between so-called “commercial” work and work that’s done purely for the joy of creating? Should they be separated?

5 Ways You Can Contribute to the Web Design Community

5 Ways You Can Contribute to the Web Design Community

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Web Design

We share ideas that will hopefully inspire you to give a little bit of your time and skills to make the web design community a better place.

How to Structure Your Portfolio Site to Land a Design Job

How to Structure Your Portfolio Site to Land a Design Job

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Freelance Design

We share a few of the lessons we learned while talking to industry professionals so you can build a unique portfolio site that showcases your work beautifully.

Networking For Designers 101

Networking For Designers 101

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Freelance Design / Web Design

We share some much easier and more effective methods for making networking connections as freelance creative designers.

How a Culinary Technique Could Make You a Better Freelancer

How a Culinary Technique Could Make You a Better Freelancer

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Freelance Design
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