Dootch

Lately I’ve been focusing a lot on vec3t projects and on the ecommerce stores. Since freelancing still makes up the lion’s share of my income, and since I want more money, I’ve decided I’ve got to lift my freelancing game. I am not optimal in a number of ways at the moment. I don’t bill [...]

Without a doubt, the #1 key to happy freelancing is… perfect customers. What makes a perfect customer? The perfect customer is successful. People that are winning are generally good at what they do. It’s far easier getting content and feedback and input from someone who is organised and on top of things than someone bogged [...]

I was recently contacted by a videographer, let’s call him Frank. Frank makes testimonial type videos, videos with the owners in them, tv commercial type stuff. Videos that make a great addition to a website. He invited me out to coffee so I was like ‘yeah cool’. So I went there, and he was a [...]

As freelancers, it’s our job to improve our clients condition. One thing I’ve realized a lot lately as I’ve been outsourcing more and more, is that good planning saves lots of time. Yesterday I was working on upgrading a site for a client that I made when I first started freelancing in 2007. The css [...]

I had a prospect from about a year ago call me up with a renewed interest in building a website. The only problem is, in that time, my minimum price has tripled. At first I thought I would just tell him that I can’t do his job, because I thought there’d be no way he’d [...]

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 easy to get overwhelmed with different tasks that come at us freelancers during the day. The phone might ring, some urgent work comes in, meetings pop up, IM messages come in, emails coming through, not to mention all the social media and information we have at our finger tips. And it’s getting worse. If [...]

Jill Konrath in her book and on her website Selling to Big Companies has a segment where she talks about the importance of assumptions in the sales process. She rebukes conventional wisdom that to ‘assume is to make an ass out of u and me’. Instead she says that without assuming, it’s hard to get [...]

Name: Phil Matthews Location: Weymouth, UK Freelancing for: 6 years Website: http://www.weymouthwebdesign.com/ and http://www.thewebdesignblog.co.uk Firstly can you tell us a little about yourself and what you do? I’ve been freelancing for nearly 6 years and had the pleasure of working for some really great clients. I setup The Web Design Blog in late 2009 with [...]

I had a freelancer doing a little bit of development work for me, converting a html/css template into a magento theme. The job was done quickly, well, and I was happy. Then some other work came up that required some css bug fixes on another site. Seeing as though I was fresh off a great experience [...]