Start and Grow a Successful Freelance Business

Interview with Grace Smith — blog and user interface designer

4 Comments 17 February 2010

Grace Smith is a designer, self-proclaimed Apple fan-girl and Twitter addict based in Northern Ireland. Her design studio, Postscript5, specializes in Blog and User Interface design. Grace works with individuals and companies based mainly in the UK and USA, on a diverse range of projects and enjoys collaborating with other designers and developers.

Business

A guide to offering Email Marketing services to clients

4 Comments 12 February 2010

Pitching a new service to your clients is never easy, regardless of how compelling you perceive the case to be. When the service is email marketing, there's an additional twist—often your introductory conversation will not so much consist of explaining what it is ('a compelling way to get in touch with your customers'), but deconstructing what it isn't ('spam'). So, how do you bring your clients around to seeing the value in email marketing? What can you charge for? Perhaps most importantly, what's in it for the designer? In this article, we'll go through some of the core selling points you can pitch to your clients and the range of services that you can offer.

Interviews

Interview Series: Talking with Brandon Cox—designer, blogger and Pastor

4 Comments 27 January 2010

Brandon Cox is a Pastor, logo, identity and web designer and blogger (Life Here and There, Fuel Your Blogging, and Creative Cox) in northwest Arkansas. He’s originally from Kentucky, but now lives in northwest Arkansas with his wife Angie (who blogs at The Sweet Life), his daughter and his little dog Beau, and is expecting a [...]