Most small businesses go under within their first two years and only 1 in 10 make it ten years. Moral of the story: being successful is hard, not to mention scary.

According to The United States Department of Labor, photographers hold over 122,000 jobs and nearly half are self-employed—a much higher proportion than most occupations. Photographers work in all areas of the country, but the majority are stationed in metropolitan areas. The employment of photographers is expected to grow rapidly through 2016 as it is a [...]

When I left my corporate job to pursue life as a full-time freelance web designer, it became very apparent that while word-of-mouth and referrals were great for my business, I didn’t want to “hurry up and wait” for new projects to trickle in. I wanted (and needed) to be more in control of my company’s [...]

Earlier this week, I posted a review on the new project management system, FreelanceSuite. I purchased it for $69.00, after loving the demo, but since the purchase have been very dissatisfied with the lack of support and the product’s bad functionality/usability. I requested a refund from FreelanceSuite, and it’s very important you read this (if [...]

Choosing your first project management system can be a daunting task, at least it has been for me. There are just so many choices out there both free and paid.

Successful web and graphic designers are constantly seeking inspiration for their projects and ideas. I admit, up until recently, I’ve been very bad about saving (and seriously organizing) websites, photos, graphic snippets, copy and other items I’ve found to be extremely inspiring. Thankfully, I gave Evernote a try and have been using it for my [...]

Lately, I have been getting more and more requests to do e-commerce websites. It seems that everyone is trying to sell products online these days. My weapon of choice is normally OpenCart, although it’s a bit hard, well… confusing to skin. It has too many identical folders that all mean different things. It’s weird. Take [...]

It’s a well known fact that every serious designer has to have a pet project in order to stay sane. I recently decided to partake in a new pet project myself, which sent me on a scavenger hunt for the perfect mind mapping program. A few twitter friends referred me to these sites:

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I recently helped out on an animation project that required me to storyboard several different concepts. I searched the internet high and low for a templated storyboard that I could use for my project. However, I wasn’t happy with any of the templates I found. Eventually, I decided to create my own storyboard with big [...]