Todoodlist Review

Have you ever thought to yourself, “My to do list is just too boring! How can I actually keep up with something that looks so frightfully drab?” Or perhaps you have tried endless possibilities for organizing your daily routine and tasks and can’t seem to get one that motivates you. Do you forget things even when you write them down? Have you realized that the world we live in is just too complex and you long for the simplicity of an earlier time? Is your to do list too long and scattered across post-it notes, notebooks, date books, and bananas? Yes, I said bananas. Are you curious now?
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Free and Cheap Legal Support for Designers

Good legal advice is an invaluable tool. Unfortunately, good legal advice is too expensive for the freelance designer. Have no fear though, there are a number of sites and businesses online that can help you with your legal woes and offer some advice. Many of the sites listed below have are either free or extremely cheap alternatives to full price legal service.
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Small Business Accounting with Quickbooks: A Designers Review

This post is by one of our readers, Bradley Jensen, at Reflection Studios
I’ve been running a small design firm for about 3 years now. We have been running Quickbooks since the beginning. Quickbooks does far more than what we use it for, but it does well with “the basics” for us.
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Accounting Basics for Designers

I recently read a great post on Freelance Switch about accounting basics. Its is a great article and certainly worth a look, you can read it here. While the article covers the basics as far as what you should be doing to keep track of your accounting; I wanted to elaborate on some of the things mentioned, as well as add some resources.
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Freshbooks Review

Recently I started revamping my design company from a part time hobby to a full time business. As a result, I need to find more professional means of conducting business. I needed something that could invoice clients, send more professional proposals, and keep track of it. I heard a lot of buzz about FreshBooks, so I decided to give it a try and see what all the hype was about.
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10 Bad Habits of Designers

All too often we sacrifice our time and skills just to make an extra buck. While it might get us a few bucks now, is it really worth it in the long run? Not only do we as freelance designer sometimes sell ourself short to our clients, but sometimes we have a hard time understanding the true value of our time. We have the mentality of; “why pay them to do it when I could do it for free?”

Below is a list of some of the bad habits we as designers are faced with constantly and some suggestions on how to fix them.
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Link Love: Entrepreneurship

A collection of articles from around the web that focus on running a small business and being an entrepreneur. If you know any other good articles that focus on this topic, feel free to add links in the comment section.
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28 AJAX Scripts for Designers

Some simple Ajax scripts can go a long way in your design. These simple elements can help improve your user experience, make the site more sensible, or just give it some added flare. Here are a few of our favorite Tool Tips, Lightboxes, Galleries, and Tabs.
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How to Procrastinate Better

I think it is safe to say that many of us as freelancers tend to put things off and procrastinate more than we should. This is probably in part due to the fact that we sometimes take on more than we can handle. Thus, we put off the less interesting projects for the more exciting ones. Or maybe the more profitable projects come before the lower paying ones.
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Funding Your Web Startup

Think you have the next Facebook or YouTube idea ready to make you million, but don’t have the finds to get it off the ground? Outlaw Design Blog is here to help with a collection of sources to help you find funding for your startup, how to contact investors, and advice on finding the right place to get your funding.
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