Dootch

I’ve written before about how turning down clients is necessary to grow as a freelancer, but today I want to focus on signals that alert you that this job might be a good one to turn down. 1. The client is quote shopping. Government departments are great at this. They send you an email with [...]

People say that one of the joys of being a freelancer is the freedom. That you don’t have to work for ‘the man’. That’s true in some senses, but in reality, it’s the same stuff with a different man. Especially as you work for bigger clients and make more money. There are still deadlines and [...]

It’s great as a freelancer to not have a boss. Bosses can be bastards. But in reality, instead of having one boss, we have lots of bosses… our clients. I don’t mean they’re our bosses in the way that we have to do everything they say, but I mean it from the point of view [...]

Freelance Philosophy Friday: Every Friday, I take a piece from my philosophy and explore it a little further The easier we are to work with as freelancers, the more successful we will be. Let me explain: If we’re easy to work with, our clients get happy Because we’re so easy to work with, we’ll get [...]

One thing I find a lot of freelance designers, especially young designers, have trouble with, is the concept of designing for clients. I recently had contracted a designer to design a website for a client. The designer didn’t like the look of the clients logo, so he made some changes to make it fit with [...]