Business
How to successfully hand off websites to your clients
You’re reaching the finish line for your latest project. Over the last few weeks (or maybe even months), you’ve spent hours expertly crafting a website… Read More
54 Articles Tagged Managing clients
Business, Design
Everything you need to know about a client before you brand their business
When Oxide Design Co. brings on a new client, we go through a pretty extensive discovery process. We’re of the belief… Read More
WordPress
Why these 5 designers chose managed WordPress hosting
To make the switch or to not make the switch. You’ve been going back and forth on the topic of WordPress hosts and… Read More
Business
How to create a positive client onboarding experience
The contract has been signed and you’re finally ready to start the website project with your new client. What now? You’ve entered the onboarding phase:… Read More
Business
What to do when your client disappears
Crickets… Not what you want in your inbox when you’re waiting to hear from a client. One minute, you were trucking productively along, the next,… Read More
Business
How to best support your clients during COVID-19 (while keeping your agency running)
COVID-19 has effectively changed the world as we know it. Whether you own a smaller creative web design business, work at a huge agency, or… Read More
Design
How to successfully design for a target audience
For many people, planning a new online home is an exciting endeavor. It’s an opportunity to create something so impressive it will blow the competition… Read More
Business
How to get 10 new freelance clients in 30 days (or less)
I was recently on a coaching call with a freelancer who seemed to have everything together. Her business was humming along, she had regular work,… Read More
Business
The best ways to keep your clients happy and returning for more work
As a web designer, your job is to design websites that are beautiful to behold, functional to use, and that fit the needs and requirements… Read More
Business
How to successfully work with clients who aren’t technically savvy
Your clients are experts in their business or field, but that doesn’t mean they know much about web design. And they don’t need to. By… Read More
Business
How to use Flywheel’s White Label feature to grow your business with recurring revenue
So it’s time to grow your business – how are you going to do it? There are plenty of strategies you can focus on: booking more… Read More
Business
Who should handle the web hosting bill
You’ve landed a client, built their WordPress site, completed the testing, and now it’s time to wrap up the project. But first, someone’s gotta pay… Read More
Business
The art of web design project estimations
It doesn’t matter if you’re a seasoned industry vet or a newcomer to the field, estimating projects isn’t an easy task. In fact it’s one… Read More
Business
The best tips for dealing with difficult clients
As web designers, we want to love all our clients. That’s what figuring out your ideal client is all about, right? Doing… Read More
Business
Why designers need a project management system
When it comes to managing your workload and your workflow, one of the most critical things you need is efficiency. If time truly equals… Read More
Design
Free Photoshop plugins to improve your creative workflow
Oh Photoshop. Between all of the site designs, logos, and typography projects, you spend enough time working in that application to call it a digital… Read More
Business
How to manage multiple WordPress sites
Managing multiple WordPress sites can be tricky. It’s a good problem to have (because that probably means you’re growing your business), but being responsible for… Read More
Business
Layering support for your clients
Currently, I own 27 domain names and they’re all managed by Hover with the average annual cost for each domain in the neighborhood of… Read More
Business
How to get the clients you want
Have you ever noticed that sometimes, you just really jibe with a certain client? Not only are they great to work with, but you find… Read More
Business
Contracts 103: Copyrights, termination, and payment terms
Copyrights, ownership, termination, and payment terms are inextricably linked, as the first two are often transferred between parties utilizing the last two. When you’re in… Read More
Business
Contracts 102
You’ve got your contract template set up with the basics. Now it’s time to think about some of the issues that shift with each… Read More
Business
Contracts 101
Contracts really are the key to setting yourself — and your clients — up for success. Working through the contract-writing process gives both parties the… Read More
Business
When is a project too big for one person?
Let’s start by addressing the fact we all have a tendency to take on too much as creatives. I, for one, do this constantly… Read More
Business
You do what you do, we do what we do
Every once in a while, one of our clients comes along with an awesome story about how managed hosting has changed their business for the… Read More