by Heath | Featured, Web Design
We all have the innate desire built into each of us to create things, to invent, bring order to chaos, to make something beautiful. Meeting this desire in ourselves can be a great source of self-fulfillment and satisfaction. This is why consumerism will never bring...
by Heath | Basics, Customer Relations, Featured, Marketing, Web Design
Here is what most web designers think their first priorities are. 1. Having a kick-butt computer 2. Having every possible graphic and web development program 3. Creating THE best portfolio ever 4. Getting lots of traffic to their website 5. Setting up a good office...
by Heath | Featured, Tips, Web Design
The life of any web designer or developer is a life of troubleshooting. It is a daily struggle to wrestle CSS, Javascript, PHP or Ruby into submission. Sharpening your troubleshooting skills is a sure way to reduce your frustration, increase the quality of your...
by Heath | Customer Relations, Project Management, Tips, Web Design
It can be a catch-22 to work with uncreative customers. They are the clients who need our help the most, yet they are often the hardest clients for us to help. If you find the one in 20 clients who really is ready and willing to trust your recommendations and not...
by Heath | Featured, Project Management, Time Management, Tips, Web Design
Ultimately your success as a web developer or designer will depend on this one thing: Your ability to make sufficient returns on your investments. In other words, whether or not you are able to make enough money to support yourself, pay your bills, feed your family,...
by Heath | Featured, Marketing, Social Networking, Tips
In the first part of this article I gave the first 2 tips on on how to use social networking to market your web design or web development business. The first tip was to Be an Expert, NOT and advertiser! We are constantly exposed to 100’s of advertisements each...
by Heath | Featured, Marketing, Social Networking, Tips
In the last five years marketing has become amazingly small. I don’t mean unimportant. I mean that in the past, the big contenders with seven-figure advertising budgets would buy advertising time on TV, radio, and print newspapers or magazines. Marketing was big...
by Heath | Featured, Marketing, Tips, Web Design
We all have an amazing opportunity to grow our businesses through marketing, and it is vital that we don’t squander our efforts on the wrong things. Too many people get marketing wrong because they don’t focus. The worst marketing mistake that web designers and...
by Heath | Featured, Marketing, Tips, Web Design
Word of mouth is the most potent form of marketing at your disposal. Having your web design business recommended to potential clients by someone they trust and already have a relationship with is more powerful than any other type of advertising. Referrals give you...
by Heath | Featured, Marketing, Tips, Web Design
Here is a quick, easy and cheap method that anyone can use to give their web design business a quick shot in the arm. With this method you can spend one or two hours worth of your time and no more than $10, and have a very good possibility of making thousands from...
