I am so very excited to announce the first guide in the Guides for Designers series, “How to Prepare a Competitive Analysis That Virtually guarantees you get that new project.”.
I decided to do this guide first because I think it will be especially helpful for web designers who need to get more great projects AND get paid better. It contains the following:
Several people have asked when the first guide is coming out, so I thought I’d write a quick blog post to address that.
First of all, thank you to all of you who have been so supportive. Many people signed up on the notification list and there’s been a lot more interest than I planned. That’s awesome!!
I often think about how much faster we could have gotten our business to the point it is now if I had only known the things that I know now. I know a lot of other designers feel the same way when they start. Kind of lost about the business side of things. Most likely, a lot of the reason for that and the same reason it took us so long to get off the ground is that there is just not very much information around about it.
If you’ve been involved in making websites for several years, like I have, I’m sure you know about many of the best practices involved. In fact, it’s usually easy to pick out websites that were done by amateurs because of obvious violations of said best practices.
When a potential client approaches us, they often ask, “How you done any other——web sites?” This——may be Wordpress, ExpressionEngine, Magento, etc. etc.
