This post has been a long time coming, I think it’s important that I document both for myself and for anyone reading my blog that starting a web design business isn’t all bunny rabbits and dollar signs. Just like anything else in life, there are highs, and there are lows. This isn’t meant to come [...]
I’ve spoken several times on this blog about The 4 Hour Work Week, by Tim Ferris (Amazon links: UK, US). A book which I didn’t expect to enjoy nearly as much as I did. There was one particular passage that really struck home with me towards the end of the book that I’ve been wanting [...]
July really has not been a good month for me. It has been full of stress, missed deadlines, unhappy clients, bills, lack of time, and lots more. But there is one positive thing that I’ll be taking away from this month, I’ve learned a huge amount about myself, about business, and about client communication; which [...]
There’s an inherent problem with the way in which running a web design business works, and I really need to do something about it for my own business. The short version is that we treat prospective clients too nicely during the pitch and sale process, which lines us up for nothing but problems further down [...]
Today, I’m sitting in a small restaurant by the Worthing Seaside and I find that in a rather small space of time, I’ve learned a great deal of things that I was previously unaware of. Allow me to share with you my discoveries of today, the 20th of May, in on of the greatest blog [...]
Over the last couple of days I haven’t been nearly as enthusiastic about my work as I normally am. I’ve been procrastinating about doing actual paid work, wasting a bit too much time on Twitter and LOST, and generally being about half as productive as I normally am. I got up from my desk a [...]
Mid-way through last week I was having some real trouble balancing my blogging with running my business, interlinking the two, and generally finding a happy balance for my time management. For this reason, and a couple of others, I though it’d be great to interview Chris Spooner, who runs the epically successful Spoon Graphics blog [...]
This month has been a slow month for me in terms of client work, but am I worried? Absolutely not – in many ways it’s been the best and most productive month so far! Dry patches in client work can be a very good thing if you have a plan, allow me to elaborate.
What Happened [...]
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