Posts Tagged ‘business’
Blog Club : Business
Business is something pretty close to my heart considering I run my own. Freelance is always the lower end of business of course, I don’t have the nightmares that are staff and so on (part of the reason I like it rather than being a manager). 9rules has a great business community if you are looking for a range of business blogs and information. This week in the business community I noted a couple of entries that really got me wanting to respond.
Cornershop ethos
There was a time ago where there were a local shops at the heart of the community where you could walk in, get a smile and be greeted with a cheery “would you like your usual order?”. I live in a village and love the fact that this is still in play in smaller communities. A great many of places this seems lacking now and everyone has become a number to get grunted at by unhappy client meeting drones.
Strength in numbers part deux
I wrote a short time ago a post about my reasons for believing that blogging networks were a good thing becuase their was Strength in Numbers. Part of that post was about wanting to join 9rules, but the belief I have in the fact that there is strength in numbers goes beyond that. As a freelancer, it can all get a bit lonely and you can feel like some lone rider in a tabled inaccessible world. Lost with nothing to do but go from one project to another and with only your messaging link to the world. In starting a small business freelancer has to be all things to their client and looking or even farming out your weaker areas seems just a loss of money.
Basic business practices
I guess it is just another hat that you have to wear being a web designer, but you really can’t afford to ignore basic business principles. No matter what website you are launching or involved in, from the smallest blog to the biggest community mammoth. The basic business principles all apply. I would always suggest as a starting point to treat any website like a business in itself.
Is being you wrong?
In a galaxy far far away in a distant time before blogging, most websites spoke in the third person. This was a time before web standards and common sense where rotating gifs ruled the ways helped along by hit counters. Then something strange happened and the web became personalised. More and more people began to drop the royal we and opt for the personal touch.
Superstar web designer
It has always been the case that there are people you admire with regards to design. Lately, it seems these people are being made out to be superstars – web design is the new rock and roll it would seem. You’ve got interviews with these superstar web designers splashed across the net. Articles, fan clubs and flickr streams from their god like lives.
