Most people are averse to confrontation. Especially confrontations where they could be painted in a negative light.
But there are ways to broach the topic of payment without coming off like Uncle Scrooge. Take a look at our list of tips to help ensure you always get paid while improving your relationships with clients.
Open doors by choosing your focus. Here’s how specializing leads to more opportunities and more profit.
We want to make sure that we have plenty of time for conversations and time planned for internal company exchanges at clients’ businesses. We need to be able to send data out and get data back from the client and account for this time in our projections. Without time budgeted for this, you won’t be able to manage the project well, and things will start to fall apart!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxV1KULezdc When you're running an agency, or really any business for that matter, it's almost always mid to high-level stress. Which is why you NEED to think about your strategies and execution before acting. The business is busy, and...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBQJ8AWnAOQ Knowing your priorities is one of the most important things you can do in life and in business. When you know your priorities, you can make decisions that you stand by every time. Here is a story about how I learned what was...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPa8Y3aJl4g A Proposal And An SOW Are Not The Same Thing! So many design, marketing, and even web development agencies do not have a clear understanding of a project scope of work vs. a project proposal. Many companies include only one...
Building a Scope of Work For Your Web Project Means Knowing How to Quote an App Development Project The Right Way With timelines, costs, features, and platforms, there's a lot to consider when you quote an app development project. The mobile app market is experiencing...
A guest post written by David Parmelee Scoping a software, web, or app project is not just a once-and-done exercise Whether you create your product for external clients, consumers, or internal users, your users will eventually see some version of your product. Maybe...
Writing a Scope of Work (SOW) for a website This document discusses the general items you need in a SOW for a website, but because projects can vary so much, you may need to include more items in your SOW. Today, we’re going to look at how to produce a Scope of Work...
Guest post by Amelia Wong ESTABLISH YOUR GAME PLAN The audience’s time is valuable. The stakeholder wants to know that the UX professional is effectively achieving the goals and the team is all on the same page. Initially clarifying objectives helps all parties...
Guest post by Simone Smith Missing a deadline is something that happens even to the best of us. Whether you got sick and couldn't finish your tasks on time or the project took you much longer than expected, one thing is clear – you're about to miss the deadline and...
Why Scoping Matters Had I scoped every project I had ever worked on, countless dollars would have been saved, countless tears wouldn't have been shed, and I probably could have added years to my life. You see, when you don't scope your project well, you automatically...
What’s that thing everyone always says? Something like, “the customer is always right.” Right. But in web design and freelancing, we quite often forget to choose the right customers. Did your mom ever tell you to choose your friends wisely? Mine did. And you should be...
This is the first of a several part series on the process of scoping a pricing web and app projects. Here we're just going over some of the basics and making sure we're all on the same page as far as definitions, general process, etc. before moving onto more...
Whether you’re taking the plunge into freelancing and consulting or running a studio, there is one question that always looms over you: how am I going to price my services? This is one of the questions I’ve answered more than almost anything else over the years. There...
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