To the uninitiated, running a design business sounds easy. You find clients, you create designs for them, they pay you, repeat. Freelancers, however, know there is so much more to it than simply designing. And yet, even armed with that knowledge there are still several mistakes freelancers make when it comes to running their business.
It’s November, and that means the holidays are just around the corner and everyone is looking for gift ideas for friends and family. I don’t know about you, but every year I dread the question “what do you want for Christmas?” I don’t know what to say when someone asks me that question.
One of the best marketing tools available to your design business is your local Chamber of Commerce. If you are not taking advantage of how this organisation can help you grow, you are missing out. Big time.
Sometimes, all it takes to improve your designs or to break out of a creative slump is to alter your perspective on how you go about designing.
I created Resourceful Designer to help designers run their full-time home-based design business. However, a large number of you are not full-time freelancers. Many of you have another job and freelance as a side gig.
I'm a designer just like you. Let's see how we can do more designing and less of the other business stuff that takes up our precious time. 
