By Darren on August 26, 2010
You know how important getting new clients is for your business. Getting a constant new stream of clients is often the #1 challenge for most freelancers. Unfortunately, most of the advice provided online on this topic is often filled with ambiguity and doesn’t give you clear tips and instructions you can use to start getting [...]
Posted in Development | Tagged business, clients, freelancer, tips, tricks
By Hilde Torbjornsen on August 24, 2010
We’ve talked about freelancing, – what to do and how to do it. In this article we’re gonna have a look at some of your stronger and weaker sides compared to bigger Design Companies. By reading this you’ll get an idea of how you can compete even better and which things to focus on when [...]
Posted in Design | Tagged business, clients, Design, freelance, tips
By Hilde Torbjornsen on August 11, 2010
When you’re working as a freelance designer, there’s a good chance you’re struggling to get new clients. Competition out there is usually hard, and every single thing can count. In this article we’ll have a look at some tips for what you can focus on to show your client(s) or potential client(s) that you’re serious [...]
Posted in Design | Tagged business, freelance, profession, tips, tricks
By Hilde Torbjornsen on July 30, 2010
Your efficiency as a freelancer can make or break you. Many times it can be hard to see how much more efficient you can actually be if you spend some time fine-tuning a couple of things. In this article we’ll have a look at some of my top tips on how you can give your [...]
Posted in Development | Tagged business, efficiency, freelance, tips, tricks
By Darren on July 27, 2010
The best way to learn how to run a business is to read the stories of successful businesses. So recently, I’ve been reading some books by Harvard Business Press (written by very successful VCs, CEOs or university professors) and learned A LOT of principles that can be taken from them and applied to your web [...]
Posted in Development | Tagged business, designers, Development, Lessons, tips
By Daniels Mekšs on July 20, 2010
If you need a great, working WordPress theme, but don’t have or necessary skills, then these commercial themes are just for you. They’re completely ready to use, easy customizable and you are getting support too. This post assembles 50 good-looking corporate & business themes, so if you want to start a commercial site, this is [...]
Posted in Wordpress | Tagged business, commercial, corporate, portfolio, premium, template, theme, Wordpress
By Jeff Boshers on May 24, 2010
As said in part one of this article, contracts are one of the most vital and misunderstood tools of the freelancers arsenal. In part two of this article we looked at schedules, and I asked if the awesome readers of 1WD would like to see a downloadable sample contract and you all responded.So here in [...]
Posted in Resources | Tagged Advice, business, clients, freelance, tips
By Hilde Torbjornsen on May 14, 2010
Working as a freelancer means many challenges for you. You have to be a great ambassador and salesperson for your own work. When you are that closely involved it can sometimes be hard to keep the right focus. In this article I will try helping you out by sharing some useful tips [...]
Posted in Design | Tagged brand, business, Design, entrepreneur, freelance, products, tips
By Hilde Torbjornsen on May 7, 2010
Wanting to be a freelancer? – there are many things you need to be aware of. In this article I will list many things for you to think through and consider before jumping into the freelance business. I hope this list will be a valuable tool for you to evaluate the current situation and being [...]
Posted in Design | Tagged business, freelance, howto, tips, tricks
By Gustavs Jurisons on November 27, 2009
Every website must highlight and convey information for their type of users in the right way to make it work. It’s especially important in corporate designs, where website must be designed in perfect way so visitor focus on points where designer intended visitor to focus. Many business projects are completely based on Internet marketing so [...]
Posted in Inspiration | Tagged business, corporate, Design, Inspiration, webdesign
