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10 steps to becoming a successful freelance designer

Let’s face it. There are a lot of us out there: freelance designers trying to make a dollar and gain experience at the same time. Freelance designing is wonderful but the market is so saturated that we often lack what we need to stand out from the crowd. Below you will find 10 tips [ READ MORE ]

8 Secrets to drive targeted traffic to your website.

Like the movie, many business owners today still believe this statement to be true for their own website. “If we build it, they will come”. There was a time when this may have been true, however, those days are gone. According to a recent Netcraft report that suggests there are approximately 240,000,000 websites and blogs [ READ MORE ]

How to Use Facebook for Business” Complimentary eBook.

Social media sites are important assets for businesses; they enable businesses to get found and engage with potential buyers on the web. With over 400 million people on Facebook, this is really a social media tool for connecting with people and expanding your business network. Marketers have an opportunity to use Facebook to expand their [ READ MORE ]

How to Add a Skype Call Me Button to a Web site

It seems like everyone has a Web site these days, and some have more than one. If you are one of these connected types you can add a button to your site that allows visitors to contact you via Skype. You can also add a Skype Me button to your email signatures or forum signatures. [ READ MORE ]

Book Review : Learning jQuery 1.3

For the past couple years jQuery has been gaining in popularity, from a hot script with easy CSS selectors released by John Resig in 2006, all the way to jQuery 1.3.2, probably the most widely used Javascript library today. The jQuery core has been constantly expanding, offering new methods and performance tuning with every release, [ READ MORE ]

Mac vs Windows

Everyone knows the value of improving your workflow. Well it turns out I work a whole lot faster on a Mac, both in web development and web design. I think the OSX developers must have thought a great deal about workflow, because Mac has a lot of great features: from much more drag-and-drop integration between [ READ MORE ]

Landing More Gigs

Finding success as a freelancer requires a steady stream of paying gigs. Obtaining new business through referrals is great, but referrals alone won’t keep your schedule packed with paying jobs, especially when you’re just starting out. In this economy, the competition for work is fierce. To stay ahead, you must combine two key elements in your [ READ MORE ]

How to Extract a Web Design Client?

We as freelancer are always wanting to make a great first impression, with a potential client. The first conversation usually are key on getting a new client. Here is a scenario like this: “I want a website for my business.” You: “What kind of business do you have?” The client states the nature of the business, launches into a [ READ MORE ]

The Approach to Marketing

It’s pretty easy to slap together a website, print up a few business cards and declare your marketing efforts complete. But the fact of the matter is that a freelancer’s marketing is never done — if we want clients after our current projects are done, we have to do the marketing necessary to bring them [ READ MORE ]

Are Paid Links a Necessary Search Engine Optimization Evil?

This is a guest post written by David Brown. What do nearly all high ranking websites have in common? As a search engine marketing consultant, I am confronted with the task of evaluating the inbound links of thousands of websites each month. In doing so, I have come to the realization that top ranking websites continue [ READ MORE ]

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