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- A Freelancer’s Guide to Prospecting
“First let me start by saying this is a nitty gritty guide to prospecting. This isn’t fluff and it probably won’t make you feel warm and fuzzy inside.
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- 20 Expert Tips to Improve Your Bitmap Illustration
“Rob Carney speaks to the world’s top illustrators to give you essential tips for progressing your bitmap illustration career.
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- Get Easier Updates With These Alternative App Stores For Mac
“Tired of manually installing and updating Mac apps? Check out these alternatives to the Mac App Store, offering downloads and updates the App Store can’t.
” - 100 Brilliant Examples of Print Advertising
“Print ads can still be the most powerful medium for getting your message across, as these highly innovative print advertising campaigns show.
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- Save Hours of Work With InDesign
“That’s right, I said minutes. With a rarely-mentioned feature called Data Merge, you can bring your graphics into an InDesign document, and you can set up your text fields where each set of information will go. Then, you match the columns of your excel spreadsheet with the fields you’ve placed on your document. Watch the video below to see how all of this works. You’ll be saving hours of work in no time.
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- The State of Web Design in 2014
“New trends throw up new challenges and there are plenty of web designers who passed 2013 with flying colors. But, 2013 is over and done with and we are looking at a new year, with new designing trends and all the challenges associated with imp…
- 5 Things About Owning a Start-Up They Don’t Teach in Business School
“Without any guides on how to mentally handle my new start-up, I dove right in head-first and found myself “doggy-paddling” my way through, trying to keep my head above water. Fast forward nearly two years and I’ve learned invaluable lessons th…
- 7 Things You Didn’t Know Bitly Could Do
“But if you’re only using Bitly to generate shortlinks, you might be missing out. Bitly also personalizes your links, bundles URLs by theme, automatically generates bitmarks for your blog and more.”
- Hustle Like Voodoo Doughnut: Be You and Forget the Rest
“The famous Voodoo Doughnut has a cult following and can boast expansion past the US and into Japan (and even Tanzania). According to Copyblogger, there’s three things they do that set them apart:”
- 30 Free Macbook Mockup PSD Designs
“In this compilation below, you’ll find some of the best free Macbook Mockup Design PSDs which might handy for your design projects. This is not the traditional long list with all the available PSD templates on the internet but it’s an refined collection of best handpicked PSD templates.
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- How Advertisements On Your Website Could Make Or Break You
“If you’re going to monetize your site with ads, here are a few important tips that you must keep in mind.”
- OneNote vs. Evernote for Different Needs and Note-taking Styles
“Now that Microsoft OneNote is free for Mac and Windows, the price and cross-platform barriers to this much beloved note-taking tool are gone. But how well does OneNote stack up to (the also awesome) Evernote, Lifehacker readers’ favorite note-…
- How to Stop Clients Breaking their Contracts
“Andy Rutledge, co-founder of Unit Interactive, outlines how to write proper contracts for your clients.
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- The 90 Best Tumblr Blogs for Designers
“UPDATED! There are some great Tumblr blogs covering graphic design, photography, illustration, typography or 3D. We’ve picked the best…
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- Why doing people favours can win you more freelance work
“You don’t have to bill for every little thing, says Sam Piggott. The odd favour can send your career flying.
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- Discover how to build an app for iOS, Android, or Windows with these easy-to-follow tutorials
“Want to build an app for iPhone, iPad, Android or Windows? These app tutorials will tell you how.
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