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16 Blogs To Help You Master the Business of Design – Visual Swirl.
good stuff. especially for those just starting out

Hi, I’m Grace Smith » The LOL Cats Take On The World Of Freelancing.

Do you always have a good written document to fall back on should your client suddenly get amnesia? Even in the best of worlds, clients are busy people like the rest of us and a bit of critical information from a phone call six weeks ago is not going to be necessarily retained if it’s [...]

How To Explain To Clients That They Are Wrong – Smashing Magazine.
Does it ever happen to you? They want a splash page. They want a video that starts when the page is opened. Or the ever-loving mother-effing background music on autoplay, with no player or button to turn the damned thing off. Yeah we know [...]

24 ways: What makes a website successful? It might not be what you expect!.
an excellent article that is so very true. Paul Boags book, which I have in the amazon sidebar, is also a great read not only for the designer, but I’d venture to say, for the designer to buy and give their clients.
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Tools to Help you Estimate Price for your Web Work | Admix Web.
I have not had a chance to go thru all of them, but quick scan looks good. Of course you should develop your own methods for pricing. When you start out, chances are that you are going to underestimate quite a bit, until [...]

Effective Strategy To Estimate Time For Your Design Projects | How-To | Smashing Magazine.
Good read. Good read.

Well, you know what I mean. This great post from FlyingSolo.com.au reminds you that as an entrepreneur, you are a business. And there’s some things that the big companies do that are good to keep in mind, including #1 (Be Firm) and #3 (Turn Away Customers). It’s brief but great reading.

Fake Rocks, Salami Commanders, and Just Enough to Start | 43 Folders.
I could probably check off every category that I have here on the blog for this post from Merlin Mann. It just puts into such clear language things that hold you back and how to recognize them and get over them, maybe. It’s a [...]