Tips for Managing Your Web Design Business

When you start your own Web design business, you spend more time than you realize doing non-designoriented stuff like assembling presentations, billing, collecting, and marketing your services. All your free time goes out the nearest open window.

On the flip side, when you work for a company - especially in the design services arena - you never know how the company will shrink and expand with the changing market forces and when you might be laid off. For these reasons, it is good to be proficient working in both settings: as an independent consultant working for yourself, and as a designer working with a team in a larger organization.

In this tutorial, we offer tips on how to do the tasks that we have found most crucial for your Web design career, either when you are on your own or when you are working for a company.

Presenting you Work Developing Proposal Winning Bid Knowing What to Charge as an Independent Consultant How Agencies Charge Managing Client's Expectations Setting Client Responsibilities for the Project Getting Client to Sign Off on Key Milestones Managing the Web Project Workflow Hiring and Managing Subcontractors