Recession Tips For Web Designers

Jeffrey Zeldman says that web designers wanting to survive bad economic times should follow four rules: do good work, charge a fair price, lower your overhead, and communicate with your client.
Written on December 30, 2008

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Celebrated Web designer, author, and speaker Jeffrey Zeldman has posted excellent tips for web designers fighting the recession on the Web site 24 Ways.

"Bad times are hard on overweight companies and over-leveraged start-ups, but can be kind to freelancers and small agencies. Clients who once had money to burn and big agencies to help them burn it suddenly consider the quality of work more important than the marquee value of the business card. Fancy offices and ten people at every meeting are out. A close relationship with an individual or small team that listens is in."

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