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Focus Minded articles appeared in several carnivals last month. In an effort to support the carnivals, hear were the appearances.

• 5 Essentials for Kick Starting Your Business appeared in the Carnival of Entrepreneurs #28
• How To Prevent WWIII While Working With Friends appeared in the Carnival of Entrepreneurs #30
• The 2-Hour Business Plan appeared in the Carnival of Entrepreneurs #30

I am looking forward to seeing what carnivals August brings. Feel free to visit those carnivals as they contain some very valuable articles for Entrepreneurs.

Would you like to include FocusMinded.com in any of your carnivals or on your site? Send me a quick message and let’s talk.

This week I have some helpful bookmarks that’ll touch every aspect of your web design business. Whether you are looking for design resources, marketing tips, or simple productivity tips, you’ll see in below. I am always on the lookout for relevant articles or resources, so if you’ve found something to be bookmarkable send it to me or add it to the comments below.

• WebAppers presents a Javascript progress bar. A nice progress bar using CSS and 2 images (with a little interaction from Javascript).
• Neil Patel of Quick Sprout asks “What Does Your Business Card Say About You?“.
• CSS Juice gives everyone who is hooked on Web 2.0 trends a collection of 13 Online Generators for Web 2.0. Go get your fix for web 2.0 logo generators to button generators and even to stripe generators.
• Leo Babauta on Freelance Switch gives us 46 Must-Read Productivity Tips for Freelancers. Very good advice!

Who

Paul Boag of Headscape is the second freelancer to be interviewed by Focus Minded for Freelancer Friday. As you’ll see below, Paul is one busy man. He is involved in two podcasts, his own web design and development company, he is a blogger, a soon-to-be author, and a family man.
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Today’s article is in response to a user request from my article on web design contracts.

Great! Really good article. I think it might be quite useful to outline what happens if money is not paid within the time specified - like a late fee or removal of site until payment etc.

Excellent question. So what do you do when a client doesn’t pay on time or at all? Inevitably it’ll happen to you too. No matter how much you guard against it, no matter how much you attempt to prevent it, you’ll end up with this question. Face it, sometimes clients won’t pay. It isn’t because the website isn’t what they wanted or asked for, it isn’t because you’ve done something wrong, it just happens. When a client doesn’t pay by the date you’ve agreed upon there really are only two thing you can do at that point and you’ve mentioned them both. However, I am going to take your question a step further and include not paying at all. What may start out as a late payment, might turn into no payment.
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