Whether you’re a web designer, eCommerce manager, or simply someone who runs his own website, having the right tools at hand will have a huge impact on your efficiency; from maintenance and website management, to customization and design.
Here’s is a very selective list of free tools anyone who runs a website should have: (more…)
I regularly give business consulting services to a wide variety of people – from veteran business owners to startupists or companies looking to ride the Ecommerce wave. When I meet with a client for a professional consultation, I make sure to sign a consultation agreement before I even schedule the meeting.
I know it sucks to sign a legal type of documents, especially when you’re just getting to know someone. But I’d recommend it in this particular case. It will protect you from late payments or arguments on the price of the consultation, or even not getting paid at all… It seems crazy but a lot of people are just plain dishonest.
The agreement also clearly states the terms and frame of the service you are going to provide. You’re not taking on any project just yet and you haven’t agreed on any specific price. Right now it’s just a consultation – and it’s important to have that in writing.
The agreement also includes a Credit Card Authorization Form. (more…)
Every time I do my routine check on the traffic stats of our web design company’s website, I am amazed by the growing numbers of web designers, web developers, and web design companies who are consistently reading our blog and repeatedly visiting our website. So here is another post in our web design company resources series for all the web design professionals who are loyally following us! This time I am attaching a professional non-disclosure agreement template in a Microsoft Word format. Enjoy!
This non-disclosure agreement template is faithful to our philosophy when it comes to this type of document – it’s clear, concise, and simple. It’s written in plain English (as much as possible) instead of a complex legal jargon, and it will protect you and your clients. (more…)
To all web designers and web design companies who are loyal followers of this web design blog, here is another post in our web design company resources series! Enjoy this free professional email template that I’ve been using for some time with great success.
For the past few years, I’ve been responsible for following up with potential clients who contact our web design company about their web design projects. Being one of the most demanded web design and web development companies out there, we are often flooded with inquiries, and I often end up not having the time to get back to every client. Over time we came up with the perfect email template to use in just that case! (more…)
Here is our new post in the web design company resources series where I’m giving out material that we use on a daily basis here to run our state-of-the-art web design company from our New York location! This time, I am attaching a great web design proposal template in a MS Word format!
To tell the truth, we don’t really submit proposals anymore as we try to minimize paperwork, specifications documents, scope documents, and other things that just make everyone waste time, talk in the air about things that can’t really be planned in a creative process such as features, goals, milestones etc.
Rather, we work with an iteration process which is much more efficient, powerful, real, and in general produces results rather than bullshit documents. So instead of spending a week discussing a specs document back and forth and finalizing a proposal for a website project, we spend 1 day drafting a few design concept for the landing page and take it from there. In a week of work, we’ll already have the main design approved for the beta launch, and most of the design concepts for the entire project. (more…)
I recently reviewed some web analytics on the volume of traffic that we get on our web design company website, and I saw that a recent blog post generated a very significant volume. In that blog post, I gave out one of the email templates I use to respond to inquiries.
So I decided to continue in the same spirit and start a new series of blog posts where I’ll be giving out material that we use on a daily basis here to run our state-of-the-art web design firm from our New York location! This time, I am attaching our web design contract in a MS Word format!
For a long time we used lengthy contracts, with plenty of stupid legal jargon, and a lot of unnecessary stuff nobody really understood. We kept changing our contract to make more sense, make it easier for us to explain it to our clients, while still protecting us and our creative methodology. It took a long time until we finally got it right! We’ve been using this final version for all of our web design projects ever since.
I’ve uploaded the contract on our server in a Microsoft Word format just for you guys, freelance web designers, and competing web design companies who are following our web design blog! So feel free to use it for your own web design projects!
Coming next! Useful email templates, a bunch of in-depth web design proposals, website architectures, and more!
Many of our Web Design Blog readers are Web Designers – freelance web designers, and web design companies alike. So here is a Free Email Template for you! This is one of the most common emails we send out to potential clients who inquire about our web design services - let me know if you find it useful and I’ll post more!
If, like our Web Design Company, you use Google Apps as your email client, you can enable the canned responses lab feature to save email templates and load them quickly when replying to inquiries. (more…)