Category: Freelance Design

When you’re trying to run your own freelance business, it’s important to remember that you’re not just a design professional. You’re also a business owner. That means you need to learn not just how to do your design job better, but how to run your business better, too.

Creating a Web Design Portfolio that Sells

Your portfolio is your career calling card which provides a sneak peak for prospective clients. It’s one of the most important elements in your career as a web design professional…

How to Get Long-Term, Steady Web Design Projects

There are more than three billion people connected to the Internet – that’s a huge number of opportunities waiting for freelance designers to tap into. But the same dilemma remains:…

Top Freelance Jobs for Web Designers

Freelance Web Design Jobs are a lucrative part of the creative industry. It’s possible to earn thousands of dollars from the comfort of your own home. The last decade’s internet…

How to Prepare for a Remote Job Interview

You’ve got an interview for a sweet remote working position. Congratulations. Now it’s time to prepare. Of course, you should follow the advice that any candidate should adhere to, like researching the company and your interviewer, appear enthusiastic and so on.

15 Simple Productivity Tips for Freelance Designers

For freelancers, productivity means money. The more efficiently you get things done, the better off you will be both professionally and financially. That’s why we have put together this article that will give you some productivity tips on how to do just that, get more things done.

Protect Your Rights with the Standard Freelance Contract by AND CO

As a freelancer, you’ve probably run into more than one instance of a client who doesn’t pay on time (or at all). You might also have faced a situation where…

How Internal and External Motivation Differs

Motivation is the power that comes from within that pushes you to take action towards achieving your goal. Simultaneously powered by desire and ambition, and therefore, if these are absent, motivation has no effect.

Social Psychology Tips to Help Get More Web Design Clients

Several years ago, I enrolled in a self-improvement course which taught me a concept I found helpful for getting more clients for my freelancing career. If you want to “hit”…

One Little-Known Action That Could Affect Your Client Relationships

We all have had bad clients, but who’s really responsible for that? Remember that every client is a human, who wants to be heard, appreciated, taken care of. Give and…

How To Educate Your Web Design Clients

More often than not, web designers complain about their clients not trusting them enough or not giving them enough creative freedom.

Simple Ways to Know and Interpret What Your Web Design Client is Thinking

The most important aspect of a project is to be able to read your clients mind. A company has policies that employees must follow and these policies will apply to freelance web designers, and the work they do.

Five Steps to Writing a Bullet-Proof Web Design Proposal

Building a website takes a lot of time and effort. The client doesn't always realize just how much work goes into it. If you don't properly set expectations and price things accordingly up front, inevitably there will be scope creep.