Rolling around with clients and more

We are now at the end of the fourth week of BoDo. After struggling to get the site going (there’s still more struggles, but, hey), I finally feel that I’m getting into a stride with posting.

In Sunday Stressbusters we played around with Careerbuilder.com’s Age-o-matic.

On Monday we welcomed those new to BoDo and showed them around. If you’re also new, welcome!

Monday also brought an introduction to the 10 Top Marketing Missteps Series. On Tuesday, Neil came out with Misstep Number One, Not doing anything. Thursday came along with Misstep Number Two, Not having a plan.

Monday was a day for introductions as the Designers Working With Series also made an entrance. Wednesday brought in the subject of clients, followed by A Client’s Guide to Professional Conduct in the Design Industry. And what designer can talk about clients without getting into problem areas?

Our new author, Josh Jeffryes (hosting Cube 2.0), came in with Running Your Own Design Business. Expect great reads from Josh. He’s been there. Done that. And lives happily to tell his tales.

Soon after, humorous Tom Dyer of Dyer Straits joined the client conversation with Clients, the Crisis.

Ask jay shared four steps to a client contact policy. Last weeks (seven ways to get organised) was so good, someone ripped it off (silly, as it’s easy to find copied posts these days).

On Resourceful Friday I kept with the theme of the week, only focusing on getting clients.

Also on Friday, Brian Sooy generously sent in a Client Management article.

This weeks Podcast Humpday was actually supposed to go last week, but was bumped due to Neil’s interview at 49Sparks. Although it’s not centred on clients, Media Artist Secrets certainly throws out a well-meated bone. I listened twice to write the review, and still have a time believing Quitting Your Day Job was only 12 minutes. In the past I’ve lasted through more and received less.

A special thanks goes to those sharing expertise in the Designers Working With Series:

Adrian E. Hanft | Art Director | Photographer
Be A Design Group | Found Photography | Adrian3

Andy Budd | Managing Director | Web Designer | Author
Andy Budd::Blogography | CSS Mastery

Anna Corpron & Sean Auyeung | Interdisciplinary Design Practice
Sub-Studio | sub-studio design blog

Brian Sooy | Design Consultant
Brian Sooy & Co | Altered Ego Fonts

Chris Tomlinson | Communication Designer | Printer
Gonink | Gonink blog

Daniel Will-Harris | Communication Designer
Will-Harris House | Schmoozeletter

Danita Reynolds | Communication Designer
Creative Expertise | Creative Expertise blog

Dan Sturdivant | Communication Designer | Editor
TexasDesign.com

Dawn Burgess | Communication Designer
abdfla.com

Metin Seven | Communication Designer
Seven’s Heaven - design and illustration

Neil (nt) Tortorella | Marketing Manager
Tortorella Design | The Marketing Mind | Creative Latitude | BoDo Team | Marketing Minute

Nigel Gordijk | Web Designer | Consultant
Common Sense Design | Common Sense Small Business Toolkit | Creative Latitude

Roger C Parker | Designer | Writer | Marketing Consultant
Design To Sell Online | Roger C. Parker Design to Sell Blog | Design to Sell

Scott Boms | Communication Designer
Wishingline DS

Stefan Bean | President/Creative Director
Pulse Creative Partners, Inc. | BoDo Author | Bean’s Biz

Tamar Wallace | Communication Designer
Tamar Graphics | Tamar Graphics blog

Von R. Glitschka | Illustrator
Glitschka Studios | IllustrationClass.com | Art Backwash | Three Thumbs Up Award

If you’d also like to contribute expertise, please contact cat

Disclaimer: Did you read up at the top of this post where I said I feel like I’m finally getting into my stride on BoDo? Well, that was written awhile ago, before I had to rush off to the UK. Today I find that one of the most popular posts, the results of the Niblets Poll, managed to go live without the results. With egg on my face, I give you the results of the poll.

Until the next
Weekly Recap,
cat