Product Description
Have you ever dreamed of starting your own home-based Web design business? Have you been hesitant to put your plans into action? This comprehensive guide contains all the necessary tools and strategies you need to successfully launch and grow your business.
Author Jim Smith shares his experiences and advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based Web design business. He shows you how to assess your personal skills, estimate your start-up costs, find and keep customers, and stay profitable once your are in business. He even offers tips and tricks on building Web sites and tells you how to use the Internet to grow your business.
From painless business planning to keeping up with the ever-changing technology, this guide will help you experience the satisfaction of establishing your own business.
With this guide you can learn all about honing your Web design skills, organizing your business, getting clients and referrals, marketing your web business, hiring employees or subcontractors, setting your rates and services, building a Web site and maintaining a steady stream of work.
How to Start a Home-Based Web Design Business
This book is awsome. “How to Start a Home-Based Web Design Buiness” has helped me set up my home based business web design business. It covers all the essentials and will get you on the right path quickly. I’ve read this book few months ago and I’ve developed a business website at http://www.procreative.ca. I suggest you make this your first step towards starting a web design business. The next step is obviously picking out a good development language for database driven websites. ColdFusion is easy to learn, but it costs money. On the other hand PHP is a little bit more difficult – but its free.
Rating: 2 / 5
This book was a excellent resource on starting a small business. However, the book lacked much needed technical information concerning web design. The web design chapters needed to be more specific and detailed.
Rating: 2 / 5
The 2nd edition of this book is terrible. Look it up and see what other people have said about it. Be sure you can flip through this edition before buying it. Also, look at the author’s website and prepare for the shock of your life (he writes a book about a subject he knows next to nothing about).
Rating: 1 / 5
I was pleased with the book. I haven’t finished it yet but what I’ve read so far is beyond what I expected. So much more is covered. I am very pleased with this purchase.
Rating: 4 / 5
I have recently purchased this book from Amazon (by the way, Amazon.com is awesome! I received my order in less time than the company estimated and at a substantial savings over any other bookstore. I actually work for a bookstore and our cost was higher than the price I paid from Amazon!) Upon receiving the book, I sat right down and read the thing cover to cover. I have been designing Web sites for various departments at NC State University and several people have told me that I should be in business. Well, I have taken that advice and am now pursuing the idea. I thought that this book would be a great place to start. Unfortunately, for someone that already knows a thing or two about Web design, the book lacked substance and was very elementary. Look at the author’s home page (do a search for Blarneystone, LLC) and you will see that most of his sites are so simple that they appear to have been created a decade ago. The one good thing that I gathered from his book is the worksheets and schedules that will help in bidding for jobs and writing contracts. My advice, if you are already comfortable creating Web sites, just get a trustworthy book on starting a home-based business. This book is not very expensive, so if money is not a factor, go ahead and buy it. It does offer a little advice, just don’t expect it to answer many of your questions. This is actually the second home-based business that I have started. My first, a commercial office cleaning business is running very successfully and I owe most of the success to Don Asslett and the book “Cleaning Up For a Living”
Rating: 2 / 5