FocusMinded.com

These links should help making starting your web design business easier. If you’ve found something to be bookmarkable this week please send it to me or add it to the comments below.

• Interpreting Financial Statements by About.com
• What Customers Want by Customers Rock
• Business Cards. Trust me - you need them. by Startup Spark - for as much as I preach on the importance of business cards, this is just a fitting link to post here.
• 35 Quick Tips by Startup Students
• How to Continually Sharpen Your Skills by Freelance Switch
• Freelance Freedom #20 - a wonderful comic. (some nice Monday humor)

Web design business links to help you grow your business. If you’ve found something to be bookmarkable this week please send it to me or add it to the comments below.

• How Do You Manage Your Projects? by Freelance Folder.
• The Elements Of An Effective Marketing Plan by Small Business Branding.
• How to Deal With Invasive Clients by Freelance Folder.

Another strong week of links to help you start a web design business. Articles ranging from leadership to links and Google to income in this weeks bunch. If you’ve found something to be bookmarkable this week please send it to me or add it to the comments below.

• 25 Freelance Tips to Maximize Your Income by Performancing
• Are You Too Focused on Google? by J DAvid Macor
• Magic Tricks for Great Leaders by The Engaging Brand
• Are You Using the Five Types of Links Properly by Copyblogger
• Ahh! Those Slow Months! by Freelance Folder

Web design business links for your week. This week I have two excellent resource lists. One is a list of CSS resources and the other is a list of overall resources. If you’ve found something to be bookmarkable this week please send it to me or add it to the comments below.

• 101 CSS Resources to Add to Your Toolbelt of Awesomeness
• 77 Resources to Simplify Your Life as a Web Designer

Some excellent links this week for your small web design business. Each week these bookmarkables should be giving your more and more ideas on how to run your own company. If you’ve found something to be bookmarkable this week please send it to me or add it to the comments below.

• Top 10: Penny Pinching for Your Business - some great small business money saving ideas.
• 10 Essential Steps to Making the Perfect Pitch - provides some nice tips on how to really ’sell’ your services.
• WordPress as a CMS - Content Management System - a nice list of examples, tips, and links on how to use WordPress as a CMS.
• Logo Design Process - a good look into another designers logo design process.
• Define Project Boundaries (and Keeping your Client Within Them) - an excellent article on the scope creep (those clients who like to go outside the scope and expect it to have been understood as part of the quote). A Must Read