Eight years ago when I started focusing on web design and WordPress, there weren’t all that many great resources available to help your business be successful. Today we have so many amazing tools at our disposal that it becomes overwhelming to decide which resources we should use! I want to share a list of apps, [...]
Plugin Review: Easy Digital Downloads
I am a huge fan of simplicity, especially when it comes to my profession. Using a WordPress theme or plugin shouldn’t be so complicated that it takes you hours to figure out how to set it up and use it. I’m also not a fan of having to search through forums for answers or digging [...]
Keep Swinging for the Fence
I have a confession to make. I love to hit home runs! It’s meant in a metaphorical sense because I really suck at baseball or softball, so the likelihood I actually do this in the sport would be an absolute miracle itself. What I am talking about is hitting home runs in business. I swing hard, swing fast, and [...]
Making Money in Web Design: DO Awesome Work!
This is the last lesson in the seven part series called Making Money in Web Design. We discussed some very important lessons such as Focus on Your Strengths, Build Your Confidence, Invest in Relationships, Find Great Clients, Sell True Value, and Price for Profit. Today we wrap it up with Do Awesome Work! Doing Awesome Work, [...]
Making Money in Web Design: Price for Profit
Building a web design business, or any business for that matter, is never easy. It takes time and persistence. You have to focus and stay the course even when you feel like quitting. Freelancers or web professionals must strive to find great clients and then ensure they deliver the value they promised. And you have [...]
Making Money in Web Design: Sell True Value
We’ve already hit on some excellent topics the past few days in my Making Money in Web Design series, but none will be as powerful as a lesson as the one I am about to share. Stop Selling on Hourly If I told you that earning $50 an hour wasn’t all that great, would you [...]
Making Money in Web Design: Finding Great Clients
In the Making Money in Web Design series so far, we’ve discussed the need to focus on our strengths, build our confidence, and invest in relationships in order to strengthen our web design businesses. And as important as these first three lessons are, the remaining lessons I share with you will be the most critical [...]
Making Money in Web Design: Invest in Relationships
This is the third post on Making Money in Web Design, based off of my WordCamp series, How to Make Six Figures in Web Design. Today I want to venture into the importance of investing in relationships. Invest in Relationships In our world of digital technology we have every opportunity to build a relationship with people [...]
Making Money in Web Design: Build Your Confidence
In my first post on Making Money in Web Design, I talked about the need to Focus on Your Strengths. The second lesson I would like to discuss has to do with confidence in yourself and your abilities. Build Your Confidence Clients want to partner with freelancers who are confident in their abilities to provide [...]
Making Money in Web Design: Focus on Your Strengths
A couple of weeks ago I presented a session at WordCamp Atlanta called How to Make Six Figures in Web Design. The presentation discussed how web designers and web developers could increase their revenues by following seven lessons that I’ve learned personally in my twenty plus years of entrepreneurship. I know they work because I’ve used [...]
