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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Freelance Web Design Business Kindle Edition
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Whether you build websites as a hobby or already have a few clients, this book is the ultimate resource for starting a freelance web design business. We've combined the wisdom of successful freelance web designers into one go-to reference book.
Learn to:
- Develop a philosophical foundation for your work
- Define goals & objectives for your business
- Handle your finances—from startup costs to budgets
- Have confidence in your quotes and pricing
- Market and sell the value of your work
- Find (and keep) quality clients
- Develop additional streams of recurring monthly revenue
- Improve your technical skills
- Stay productive and focused in your home office
- Achieve better work/life balance
"I wish this book existed in 2007. I would have felt less nervous and been less anxious. I would have been better prepared for the ups and downs. It would have been my desktop reference as I waded through what it really meant to be a solid freelance web designer."
—Cory Miller, iThemes Founder & CEO
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJune 21, 2015
- File size556 KB
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- ASIN : B0106K64D0
- Publisher : iThemes (June 21, 2015)
- Publication date : June 21, 2015
- Language : English
- File size : 556 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 295 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,094,170 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #519 in Web Site Design
- #1,417 in Web Design (Books)
- #7,224 in Internet & Social Media
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About the authors

Kristen Webb Wright is a writer from Oklahoma City. With a passion for writing and self-reflection, Kristen hopes to use her experience to help others discover the benefits of documenting their thoughts, feelings, and experiences in a journal. Her other books include Tell the Trail and A Tiny Existence: A Memoir in Journal Entries.

Cory Miller is a former newspaper journalist turned full-time web entrepreneur. In January 2008, Cory founded iThemes.com, a provider of premium do-it-yourself WordPress themes, plugins and training for web designers, with a team of 20+ headquartered in Oklahoma City. You can find Cory online at EntrepreneurshipLab.net where he helps aspiring entrepreneurs and on Twitter: @CoryMiller303.

Kevin D. Hendricks lives in West St. Paul, Minn., with his wife, and two kids. He runs his own freelance writing and editing company, Monkey Outta Nowhere. He published his first book in the first grade, "Mike, The Cat." You can learn more at KevinDHendricks.com, which is also where you'll find the blog he's updated since 1998. For shorter bursts of narcissism you can follow him at Twitter.com/KevinHendricks.

Since 2008, iThemes has been creating WordPress plugins, themes and training for freelancers, marketers, entrepreneurs, designers and developers. We want to help take the guesswork out of building, maintaining, securing and running WordPress websites.
* BackupBuddy - The original WordPress backup plugin that backs up, restores and moves your WordPress sites
* Sync - Manage all your WordPress sites from one convenient dashboard
* iThemes Security - Our WordPress security plugin to secure and protect your WordPress sites
* Exchange - Sell your stuff online in 5 minutes or less with our WordPress ecommerce plugin, Exchange
* Builder - Build WordPress sites quickly and easily with our DIY WordPress theme framework
* iThemes Training - Professional web design training with WordPress.
We've spent the past six years building tools and resources to help you build and grow your business with WordPress. Our aim for these tools is to help save you time and money so you can do more (or less). This year, our focus for you, on your behalf, through everything we do, is simply about one word: PROSPER.
We want you to Prosper in 2015 as a result of our work, our products, training and resources. We're calling it WProsper, because WordPress is at the center of everything we do. You can sign up for WProsper--you'll get great content from interviews, webinars, special group coaching opportunities, etc., all designed to help you prosper with WordPress in 2015.
-- From all of us at iThemes, here's to an awesome 2015!
Cory Miller, CEO & Founder of iThemes
CEO & Founder of iThemes
@corymiller303
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If I were to list one thing that I think might limit the wider acceptance of the book, I think it would be that much of the tone seemed to be written from a WordPress "Developer" (someone who writes code, and fully customizes WP, including developing plugins and themes) perspective. I bring this up only in an effort to come up with something that "could" have been done differently. In fact, there are a lot of us out here who are not plugin developers, but who are building web development or website support businesses and who do not, and may never learn to write code at that level.
That being said, I found the writing style to be exceptional, and the book hard to put down. The staff at iThemes (I am also a customer of their utilities and tools which I use to manage the WP websites I develop and manage) did an great job in taking the majority of the jargon out of the text so that the book reads like, well..., a primer on how to run a solid web development business, rather than a sales pitch for their products. I admire and respect that... Well done.
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The guide contains a mix of business advice and more specific info. for web developers. They have clearly made an effort to keep the information short and to the point which is appreciated.
The book represents reasonable value for money but lacks the authority of offer business start up titles, eg. the FT start up guide (UK) is way more in depth. Unfortunately I feel it also lacks the specific depth of detail that I expected related to Web development.
Overall it's was worthwhile purchase since it has given me the perspective to look beyond the requirements for technical knowledge to get into the freelance game. There are quite a few additional resources linked online.
Taking off one star due to annoying double spaced, single line paragraphs (presumably to fill space?), slightly iffy paper quality and also the plugging of their own products.





