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How to Double Your Rate as a Freelancer

It’s always hard to value your own worth. As a web designer, a graphics designer or even a writer, there is a good chance you are charging too little to your clients. There will come a time when you will need to consider increasing or even doubling your basic rate. Of course you want to…

April 28, 2015
17 Sources of Inspiration for A Web Designer

A web designer, same like any designers, can have those rainy days. Your brain’s freezes, ideas move around your head like treacle and nothing seems to happen (sounds a lot like a hangover). At these moments, it is important to refresh yourself (and your brain) and use other people’s ideas for inspiration. Yet these sites…

April 25, 2015
7 Things A Web Designer Should Know

Being a web designer is actually a promising job. User experience is something that will always need to be developed. Regardless if you are new to the field or have been a web designer for some time, here is a list of seven things every web designer should know. Let’s start! 1. Get out there…

April 22, 2015
Why You Should Write Your Own Book and How to Do it

Are you a book lover? How many books do you read in a month? Some people read 4 books a month – as for me still understandable, it means one per week (that is beyond my capability). I can barely manage one book a month. Still. While some people love to read books you might…

April 18, 2015
Product Hunt: How to Get Featured and the Results You Can Expect

Growth hacking. You know what I’m talking about? It’s instant results. It’s sexy. It’s the stuff of six-figure incomes and slick marketing teams. The reality is more mundane. It is growth based on hard work. There’s no hack. There are just sensible, sometimes innovative, strategies to increase signups, decrease churn and maximize profits. Let me…

April 17, 2015
5 Tips for Your Creative Logo Design Process

Being instantly recognisable is a key to the success of any business. Of course all branding starts with a great logo and I’ve got some tips to get you started. Actually. Let’s step back a bit, because I’m talking about logo design I’d recommend you also check out the balance of font, shape and color…

April 14, 2015
[GUIDE] A Five Figure Guide to Freelancing

Being your own boss and earning money online is priceless. As a designer you have the freedom to make that happen and I want to help you do that. This article is not focused on how to work directly for big graphic design companies. Instead I’m focusing on people who have just started out as…

April 7, 2015
9 Marketing Hacks to Help Your eBook Stand Out on Amazon

It’s never been easier (or more difficult) to become an eBook writer. There is now no middleman standing between you and your audience. There is just you, Amazon and a potential audience of millions of people. Oh, of course there is the competition. The only problem is how to get on the right track to…

April 1, 2015
The Ultimate Guide to Creating an Award Winning Book Cover

Here at YMB Properties we create graphics design software. It’s a cool job and to be successful we do a lot of research. When we decided to enter the self publishing niche, creating a piece of software to design front covers, we analysed 200 bestsellers across the four most popular niches (Horror, Science Fiction and…

March 31, 2015
The Use of Shape in Design and The Messages They Convey

Are you a designer? I bet you must be working with shapes all the time, right? As one of the elements of design, shapes play a powerful role in communication. You can mix them, match them and combine them to create eye catching designs. Besides shape, there are 6 other components of design, which are:…

March 25, 2015

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