Training that transforms your solo business #033: How to Adapt Your Freelance Business to a Rapidly Shifting Marketplace, with Tristan Kneschkeby Ed GandiaSummary: In this interview, you'll hear why Tristan made critical changes to his business with the economic downturn. And you'll discover how he made these shifts and why they've paid off. #032: RC Peck on How to Have a Stress-Free Conversation with Your Prospectsby Ed GandiaSummary: In this episode, you'll hear from RC Peck, a seasoned pro at having productive and highly effective prospect conversations. #031: Michael Port on Booking Yourself Solidby Ed GandiaSummary: In this interview with Michael Port, author of Book Yourself Solid, I asked him how a freelancer could generate success in today's competitive environment. It was fun to finally have a conversation with someone who shaped my thinking when I was freelancing part time while working my day job. #025: Brian Casel on ‘Productizing’ Your Servicesby Ed GandiaSummary: In today's interview, you'll hear from Brian Casel.
WordPress You've heard this a thousand times: WordPress is the most popular content management system (aka CMS) in the world. W3Techs reports that 59% of sites using CMS are built on WordPress. It's so successful that it's almost become a synonym for CMS! So what makes WordPress the preferred choice for millions of developers, designers, and anyone who needs a website really? First of all, WordPress is free and open source. 7 Essentials For A Press Kit This is an extract from his book, Raindance Producers Lab THIS IS THE MOST important element of the filmmaking process, and ironically, the one most often overlooked by new filmmakers. If you hire the best cinematographer, screenwriter and actors in the world to work for you, they will make you a film: eight thousand feet of celluloid or an hour and a half of movie with absolutely no marketable value.
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The 3 Clicks Rule I recently worked with a client that was very concerned about the “3 clicks rule”. You’ve likely heard of this before: the idea that a user is only willing to click three times before abandoning a site if they don’t see the item they are after. This thinking becomes troublesome when designing complex sites for clients like libraries, large organizations (universities, hospitals) or e-commerce. The idea of needing to reach everything immediately makes clients nervous about answering to everyone’s needs (put it on the on the homepage!).
Building a Great Web Design Portfolio – 10 Best Tips & 40 Examples To a prospective client, you as a designer are often perceived only to be good as your portfolio. They’re checking you out for the first time, and if you don’t impress them enough, you just won’t get their work. And if you don’t get work, you don’t get paid. How to Estimate your Hourly Rate (Part One) …a man of action will always find employment – Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe So you decided to get up on your horse and point your lance in the right direction, eh? I bet the second most troubling question you have is: “How much should I charge?” (The first is: “Where do I find clients?”)Here’s the truth: You could be a freelancer or a business owner with multiple employees – either way this problem will remain a challenging one no matter what level you reach. It’s similar to finding the right camera placement. There’s the perfect way, and then there’s the way that’ll make you more money.
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design, Second Edition by Jason Beaird By Jason Beaird The design book for non-designers. Design is a skill that can be learned Many non-designers believe that they’re unable to create visually pleasing websites because they didn’t go to art school, or that they lack creative flair. School of Sound's International Symposium line-up revealed Event will offer a series of sessions covering film, games, documentary, installation, radio and composition disciplines. School of Sound has announced its masterclass schedule for the 2015 International Symposium event at London's Southbank Centre from 8 - 11 April. The event promises to encourage a cross-disciplinary approach to using sound in the arts and media through a series of seminars, workshops and performances hosted by skilled figures in the pro-audio and media industries.
40 Web Design Artists And 102 Websites Worth Watching I am continuing Top DeviantArtist worth watching series and now I stopped to the best web designers I could find. I only listed those artists, whom layouts I found to be really unique and inspiring, taking classical web design actually to the next level. These layouts are really artworks with amazing details, You usually don’t see browsing through the web. Consider this article as inspirational article now and if You choose to watch those artists, then inspiration blasts in long term. At first I wanted to pick only 2 website examples from each artists, but there was several so amazing webdesigns, where I couldn’t stop and picked 3 or 4 examples. Enjoy this list, hope this will help to get inspired in regular basis!