Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

This post is an expansion of tip #19 in our post 101 Graphic Design Tips for Business Success.
The Power of SEO for your Graphic Design Website

Once you have a website you need to utilize the power of the search engine. When was the last time you “googled” something? Hairdresser, Plumber, directions to the library. A [...]

This post is a continuation of graphic design tip #18 in our article “101 Graphic Design Tips for Business Success.”
Don’t have your own website yet?

As a Graphic Designer, a website is essential. You need a way to advertise your work and quickly direct potential clients to your portfolio. Most clients conduct research via the Internet. [...]

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Cost: Repeat Business < New Business

Your marketing costs for repeat business will be significantly lower than marketing for new business. Don’t neglect your new customer marketing, [...]

This post, “Logo Design Rights – Do You Have Them?” is a follow-up post to tip #12 in our article, “101 Graphic Design Tips for Business Success”. Please be sure to see that list if you haven’t seen it already.
12. Rights for your logo design work

When creating your online portfolio, one of the key areas [...]

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Design a portfolio… Your own!

You’ve seen portfolios that have only a few pieces of art from some designers… This is not enough. As a designer [...]

This is graphic design tip #10 on how to gather testimonials. This was in response to design tip #10 in our post, 101 Graphic Design Tips for Business Success.
Testimonials Can Lead to Even More Success

Testimonials are a great way of showing that you have been successful with other businesses and people. And, on top of [...]

This post, “Don’t Worry About The Money (Kinda),” is in response to tip #9 in our post, “101 Graphic Design Tips for Business Success.”
Track your time
One of the biggest challenges about graphic design is educating your client to the value of your work. Most of the time they will only see your finished project, not [...]

This post, “Utilizing Time Management,” is in response to tip #8 in our post, “101 Graphic Design Tips for Business Success.”
Use your time wisely
You only have so many seconds, minutes and hours in a day. Use them wisely. Make sure you make your customers’ time just as valuable.
Set aside time in the day for brainstorming, [...]

This post is a continuation of graphic design tip #7 in our article “101 Graphic Design Tips for Business Success.“
Lost your keys lately?

Artistic types are not typically known for their organization skills. We have a tendency to go with the flow, let our desks get a little jumbled and put our keys in odd places. [...]

As you go through the tips, think of your own stories that can be associated with each tip. If you have a great story for a particular tip, please e-mail it to us from the Contact form. Pretty soon, we’ll be posting each tip on it’s own and be going into further detail. You’ll be [...]