Freemium. If you’ve never heard of it, it’s a business model (term coined by Chris Anderson in The Long Tail) where you offer part of When you’re striking out on your own as a freelancer, there’s a lot to handle. You have to get your web presence going, build a A note from Preston: This is possibly one of the most important blog posts I have ever written. I didn’t mean for it to be, I recently read this comment from a pessimist in the freelance community: “Freelancing is a joke! There is no money in web design unless you A picture is worth 1,000 words. Keep that in mind when you go to your next potential client meeting. You want to make a great Sounds kind of epic: a single freelancer working from home wins a client over a big agency working in a local brick and mortar location, Whether it’s from clients or from fellow designers, I hear this a lot: “Business was going great. I had a lot of customers and was As a freelancer just starting out, or even one who’s been doing this for a while, you might be inclined to say “yes” to every You know the “forever” projects I’m talking about – those that are three months behind schedule yet your client wants to see “just one more” Have you ever had one of those clingy clients that calls daily? Twice daily? Sunday afternoon? Do you save their number in your phone just Freelancers and entrepreneurs are optimistic by nature. If we weren’t, we’d do the bare minimum in life to get by. We wouldn’t be running our Many of us find new clients by word of mouth. In fact, any time I talk with a group of GDB readers, that’s where most Imagine you’re a web designer (maybe you are one) and a client comes to you and says something like: “After looking through your portfolio, we’ve It’s a new year again and with many of you wondering if now is the time to start freelancing, or how to take your freelance Do you sometimes find it hard to get along with your clients? Have you ever spent a long time on the phone or in client Over the last few weeks, I’ve been reading How to Win Friends and Influence People. It’s an older book, but one that I’ve wanted/needed to 
