I’m sure some people out there might be amazed to learn that the JVM office isn’t VoIP, our number doesn’t ring to our iPhones, and we did indeed unplug the expensive PBX system we had and turn back the clock with a $15 answering machine. I’m sure some people out there are now wondering why a young, hip, technology-savvy company would choose to go all old school on the phone front.
This little post could actually have had a number of titles:
“How to make yourself look as unprofessional as possible to a potential client.”
“How to seem like a spammer even if you might not be.”
“How to lose all professional credibility.”
I could go on but I settled on, “How not to get a potential client’s attention with email” because that really is what the senders of the “cold” B2B emails that I get on a daily basis really need to take note of. The other problems could all be fixed with some of my pointers below.
When clients enter into an agreement for a design project one of their foremost concerns is often a time line for project completion. Designers work hard to map out milestones and delivery dates, and then meet those. But what happens when a client misses their deadline? What? You didn’t think clients had deadlines too?
Tired of all the proliferation of “amazing”, “stunning”, “awesome”, x-number of things bloggers post instead of posting actual posts?
Using WordPress templates as your website design can make your site look just like everyone else’s.
Why quality design is worth paying for and how crowdsourcing and low-ball biding have effected the design industry.
At some point or another we’ve all done it; scribbled on paper. Usually it’s when we’re talking on the phone or doing some other task where are mind isn’t 100% there. However, I’ve found that the act of taking pen to paper can often shake loose ideas when starting a new design project.
I belong to a number of online news and discussion groups and recently the topic of websites came up within a particular group. This led to many group members posting a link to their business website.
