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Your constantly-updated definition of Design Agency and collection of topical content and literature

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Literature on Design Agency

Here’s the entire UX literature on Design Agency by the Interaction Design Foundation, collated in one place:

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We’ve found five great inspirational websites for freelancer designers – these can provide insight into how to construct

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2 years ago

A CV is a great way of explaining your expertise to a would-be client. Not all freelancers use a CV/resume to market the

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1 year ago

For most freelancers and newbie design owners, their most powerful marketing tool will be their portfolio. A portfolio i

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1 year ago

It’s not enough to do the work; you also have to get paid. One of the biggest challenges facing freelancers and business

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1 year ago

When you’re looking at going freelance or starting your own design agency, you’ll want to understand and examine the bus

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3 years ago

Planning a business means planning to succeed in business. A business plan helps you define what you do so that you can

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5 years ago

A sales pitch gets you through the door of a client, but the way you present your business and close sales is what deter

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5 years ago

Angry customers are a fact of life. Even when you do everything right—something goes wrong that’s outside of your contro

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5 years ago

We’ve all got lots of things we want to do in our lives, don’t we? Yet, why is it that so many of them seem so far out o

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5 years ago

Pricing freelance and business-to-business work (B2B, i.e., business that is conducted between companies, rather than be

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2 years ago

Many would-be freelancers and entrepreneurs know exactly what they want to do; others aren’t really sure. Whichever posi

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5 years ago

Do you want to have your own business, but you’re not sure what niche to enter? That’s OK; you’re not alone. However, it

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5 years ago

Market research is a huge field of endeavour, and many overlaps exist between market research and User Experience resear

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5 years ago

Four common options exist in most parts of the world. The options include sole trading, partnerships, limited companies,

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There comes a time in every entrepreneur and freelancer’s career when they need to stop working with a client. Employees

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5 years ago

Yes, you didn’t start your own business to do administration, but guess what? Administration doesn’t do itself, and if y

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5 years ago

Don’t focus your marketing efforts on “buy from me”; it’s irritating, and it doesn’t work. Look to tell a story that emb

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2 years ago

Closing a sales call or asking for the business is nowhere near as hard as you may have been led to believe. In fact, it

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5 years ago