Welcome to BoDo: Business of Design online!

What is BoDo?

BoDo is the place to come when …

• you need practical business advice,
• you’re trying to avoid costly mistakes,
• or you’ve already made a range of mistakes.

BoDo isn’t the place to come if you are looking for …

• deep theoretical conversations on the whys and wherefores of design,
• the how-tos of design software (although we’ll point you in the general direction).

The ins and outs of BoDo

BoDo is the missing owner’s manual for running a design business.

If you’re like most designers, while you were learning the design process you probably didn’t learn much about the business of design. It’s often one of the failings of a designer’s education.

Odds are (if you attended design or art school) you studied layout, design history and how to create picture-perfect pixels with PhotoShop, html and css. Even if you didn’t go the school route, you probably poured over a range of books and websites to hone your skills.

Taking this into account (been there, done that) our goal at BoDo is to provide information to help run a design business in a professional, profitable manner.

On BoDo you’ll find continuously updated resources, including select e-books, business forms and more.

We’ll scour the web for the best articles on running a design business. Such as Mark Boulton’s Going it alone: Putting the pieces in place, Andy Budd’s 7 Habits of a Highly Successful Freelance Web Designer and Kevin Potts’ Starting a Business: Advice from the Trenches.

BoDo will also search out weekly resources to help trim your work flow, manage projects, find and communicate with clients, choose billing software, network, write business plans and proposals, de-stress, and not least, wade through the quagmire of business taxes.

Don’t forget to subscribe to our feed as the BoDo Team and visiting authors will post regularly. If you don’t know how feeds and RSS work, here’s a link to help you understand.

Finally, we encourage you to contact the team to share thoughts on topics you’d like us to cover. Let us know via our contact form and we’ll do our best to help out.

Welcome to Bodo,
The BoDo Team
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