Looking to work for yourself as a graphic designer? Find out how to start a freelance graphic design business, including what to think about with your branding, business type, insurance, financial considerations, networking and marketing, and more.
How to Start a Freelance Graphic Design Business: Complete Guide: Read or Listen
Want to spot a bad client before working with them? Watch for these 17 potential red flags for bad clients, so you can avoid taking on bad clients and have more pleasant client relationships.
John Falke and I talk about how he went from a two-person web design business to having a dream team. Get lots of tips you can use when hiring someone to help you, including a template for the hiring process.
Find out how to reach out to potential clients the right way as a freelance graphic designer. Learn how to start building relationships and maximizing your marketing efforts, so you get more clients and more work and make more money.
How to Reach Out to Potential Clients the Right Way: Read or Listen
Here are 5 ways to make it easier for clients to say yes to working with you. These things will also help you get more respect, enhance your value and charge more for it, and stand out from other designers.
5 Ways to Make It Easier for Clients to Say Yes: Read or Listen
Some graphic designers have misconceptions about outsourcing vs in-house work. Find out common objections to outsourcing and how outsourcing can help your design business.
Outsourcing vs In-house for Your Design Business: Read or Listen
Sometimes it can be hard to get clients or coworkers to take you more seriously as a graphic designer instead of seeing you as an order taker. Find out 8 ways to get taken more seriously as a designer and treated like an expert, not an order taker.
How to Get Taken More Seriously as a Designer: Read or Listen
Other designers and creative agencies are often looking for freelancers. There is no shortage of graphic designers or web developers out there. But you can stand out and get hired over and over—and charge more—by proving to be a reliable, trustworthy subcontractor. Here are 9 ways to be a successful subcontractor.
Many graphic designers suffer from business issues that are actually symptoms of a bigger issue. Once you realize this, you can transform your business. Find out 5 business lessons for designers that I learned the hard way, so you hopefully don’t have to.
Find out how you should respond when clients can’t afford you, or they say it’s over their budget or you’re too expensive. Also learn why this happens in the first place and 4 things not to do when they say this.
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