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CreativePro: Improving Your Bottom Line
Posted by: Catherine Morley
Category: Business Briefs
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Catherine (cat) Morley

Terri Stone (Editor in Chief of CreativePro) is doing a great job of making sure you’re covered when it comes to Improving Your Bottom Line.

If you owed the government a lot of money on April 15, the past week had you either burying your head in the sand of denial, or determined to put your business in order. And if you didn’t owe money, I’ll bet you wouldn’t turn down ways to make a bigger profit in 2008. No matter where you fall in this continuum, we’ve collected a boat-load of resources to help you overcome business-related challenges.

And a boatload it is.

  • Creating Your Future, One Month at a Time
  • Avoiding the Heartbreak of Collections
  • Negotiating with Vendors For Fun and Profit
  • Six Ways to Drum Up Business, in Good Times or Bad
  • Negotiating in a Soft Market
  • Winning Back Lost Clients
  • Don’t Get Creamed Before the Recovery
  • Nine Simple Rules for Sustaining Success
  • Pump Up The Volume of Your Proposals
  • What to Do When a Prospective Client Doesn’t Respond to Your Proposal
  • Low-Budget Self-Promotion
  • Online Marketing Tools for Creative Pros
  • Marketing Smart
  • Why Cold Calling is Not So Bad (Really)
  • Getting Pricing Right
  • Negotiating Fees
  • Setting Your Rates
  • Setting Rates for Your Small Design Firm
  • Seven Strategies for Better Customer Service
  • A Little Help from Your Friends

Need more? Then slide over to CreativePro and put your suggestions and questions to Terri. And while you are there, be sure to check out their new design. Nice.


Catherine (cat) Morley | Project Manager
Creative Latitude | NO!SPEC | BoDo team

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