The Lesson Of The Smiling Curve—How To Add Value To Your Freelance Design Business

How can you add more value to your business? What value can you add to hold onto existing clients and attract new ones? In the face of a potentially shrinking market for your services what can you do to maintain and grow your business?

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The Shrinking Market For Freelance Web Design Services

How’s your business doing? Is it growing? Are you gaining new clients? Or is the opposite happening? Are you finding your clients are fewer and further between?

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My 2015 Goals—In the Middle Of A Transition

Happy New Year. I hope you didn’t stay out too late last night and are paying for it today. Me? I barely noticed when 2014 ended and 2015 began. I rarely pay attention to the clock. I have been thinking about 2015 though.

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My 2014 Goals—Always Keep Your Hands Busy

Happy Holidays everyone. As has become my custom, the last post I publish each year takes a look back at the goals I set for that year and whether or not I succeeded in accomplishing them. I give myself a grade and reflect on each goal to learn what I can before setting goals for the coming year.

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How To Fit Creative Work Into A Productivity System Like Getting Things Done (GTD)

Creativity and productivity thrive under different conditions. What improves one, hinders the other. How then do you incorporate creative work into a productivity system like Getting Things Done (GTD)?

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