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I recently was recently presented with the opportunity to partner with a group that has a team of sales professionals. The pitch was that they would use my services as a new product offering to their existing clients. Which sounds great to me, I get a professional sales force out there pushing my services while they get a new product offering they can use to up-sale the client. It sounds like a win win, which potentially it will. My only de-lima is that its in an industry where I have limited experience, There are three main industry sectors I believe I could excel in and thats, Spa’s, The Moving and Storage Industry, Event Marketing, and small businesses and unique pet projects. And this pitch was for the golfing industry. Which is completely new to me, and I would love to grow my business in the future with this opportunity, but I fear the learning curve will take almost a year or more of dedicated time, that is pretty rare while trying to build the current sales funnel.

This entry was posted on Monday, January 25th, 2010 at 8:45 am and is filed under Starting A Design Business. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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A website is a marketing tool that is on all the time 24/7/365.

And I recently thought of an idea that I can’t wait to try.

I have a “sales pitch” that I do when I get a new prospect. And recently as I concluded my first “vlog” video podcast, I realized that no matter how well and rehearsed my pitch is, it could never compete with how good a well planned, delivered, and edited video presentation is.

Not to mention how much more polished your pitch gets with the numerous amounts of takes you do when creating the video.

This entry was posted on Friday, January 22nd, 2010 at 10:53 am and is filed under Starting A Business, Starting A Design Business, Website Design. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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I came across this article talking about feature creep in website design.

I usually call it scope creep but no matter what kind of creep you call it, its not a good thing.

Here is the delima. you as the designer are anxious to win over a new client so you agree to do the project for a budget that seems fair.

This entry was posted on Friday, December 11th, 2009 at 4:06 pm and is filed under Design Resources, Design Tips For Clients, Starting A Design Business. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Here is a list to a few pointers on developing your content for your website specifically those of you that are like me that struggle with writing content for your portfolio website for your website design company.

I though I might add my thoughts on how these tips could apply for my company as a way to kinda brain storm while I inform…

Know your Goal

This entry was posted on Friday, November 20th, 2009 at 10:26 am and is filed under Design Resources, Design Tips For Clients, Inspirada, Starting A Design Business. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Got a friendly feedback from a friend I met on twitter topday.

Check him out at http://twitter.com/LinkedInKing or

http://deanholmes.me/

After we exchanged our tweeting greetings he mentioned that my site was nice but looked like I was out to get a mailing list instead of building relationships.

I had to admit this was great feedback and peeked my interest on learning more.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 10:35 pm and is filed under Starting A Design Business. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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