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Take a Stress-Free Vacation This Summer (and Keep Your Business Running) tech

Take a Stress-Free Vacation This Summer (and Keep Your Business Running)

An OnDeck Vacation Study reported that only 57% of small business owners planned on taking a vacation last year. Further, only about a quarter of these owners would allow themselves a few days away fr

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6 steps to charging what you’re really worth tech

6 steps to charging what you’re really worth

Most designers struggle with putting a price on their services. Many end up using a pricing model that leaves them run ragged trying to pay the bills, rather than one that lets them build a healthy, s

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Branding 101: Creating the Visual Identity for Your Business tech

Branding 101: Creating the Visual Identity for Your Business

There are so many things to think about when first starting a business. What will your business offer? How will this differ from existing solutions? Who will benefit most from your offering? And why a

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Is it time to go freelance? tech

Is it time to go freelance?

There’s a tendency within the design community to depict freelancing as a goal to be achieved. Who wouldn’t want to lie in every day, do two hours of work in front of the TV, followed by an afternoon

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Should You Become a Web Designer? tech

Should You Become a Web Designer?

If you’re here, then you’re thinking about becoming a web designer and wondering if it’s a smart move.Honestly, it’s not uncommon to be plagued by doubts and what-ifs when making a big career change,

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Ghost founder on how to grow a successful design career by blogging tech

Ghost founder on how to grow a successful design career by blogging

It’s been 5 years since I last wrote, but it’s an absolute pleasure to be back once again.I’m doing a great deal more blogging these days, which isn’t a particularly strange thing. About two years ago

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Quiz: Could You Become a Design Consultant tech

Quiz: Could You Become a Design Consultant

According to a recent QuickBooks survey, the #1 reason freelancers go into business for themselves is because it lends them the freedom to shape their own career path.Whether you’ve done freelance web

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The Myth of Incognito Mode: Why “Private Browsing” Isn’t So Private tech

The Myth of Incognito Mode: Why “Private Browsing” Isn’t So Private

Incognito mode, often marketed as a digital cloak for anonymity, has become a trusted tool for countless users seeking to shield their online activity. Promising “privacy” and “security,” it’s become

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The right way to increase your freelance rates without losing clients tech

The right way to increase your freelance rates without losing clients

You aren’t being paid…Scratch that. You aren’t being paid what you’re worth. You bend over backwards for your clients. But they have no idea how hard you work. How much effort it takes to do what you

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Don’t be a douche bag! A simple guide to being an ethical designer tech

Don’t be a douche bag! A simple guide to being an ethical designer

The creative field, which encompasses design, illustration, photography and anything else that is a commercial-based service and takes imagination and a certain amount of talent on the part of the ven

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Compilation: 15 Hilarious Google Flops tech

Compilation: 15 Hilarious Google Flops

When it comes to tech, Google has been synonymous with innovation, success, and world domination (hello, Android and Chrome!).But even the mightiest giants trip over their own feet from time to time.

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3 Effective Ways To Improve Your Site’s Carbon Footprint tech

3 Effective Ways To Improve Your Site’s Carbon Footprint

At the dawn of the web-era, there was much focus on how environmentally friendly websites were: we’d chop down fewer trees, ship fewer products, and travel less for business.And because the web was sm

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