A living with Dreamweaver; where's the beef?

Circumstances have put me in a situation where I have to put my design skills, Internet development to work as a self-employed worker. My previous experience has always been within the cab company. For those of you who are successfully self-employed, where are some good places to look for information about making the right decisions and avoiding mistakes? I found some highly recommended books for sale on Amazon, but noticed that they are written for the types of brick and mortar contractor, not nerds with a service to offer. Advice?

Murray offered some good suggestions. Here's some more:

Register a domain name and create a website for your company. Make it as good as you can do. Get business cards printed and spend some time either get a logo (with a great design designer) or by doing it yourself. You can find a very good hosting company that meets its technical support phone 24/7 and are preparing to set up a VPS with this company. VPS tend to run $400 - $500 per year, but you can put some loads of Web sites on them and charge the annual rate of flow for a Web site hosted for each of them, pocketing the profits.

Join your local Chamber of Commerce. Go to room meetups and especially the multiple rooms events. Hand out your business cards and follow up. Learn to do a second 30 commercial about yourself and your business and tell people at these meetings exactly what you are looking for (for example: "this week, I am looking for restaurants who need to put their full menu online so they can attract more reserve").

If you don't have a copy of Dreamweaver, get a. A copy of Photoshop. Experiment with your own Web site. Learn how to do things faster. I have literally live in these two applications and make Web sites for small businesses.

I'll try to learn a language on the server (which is supported by your hosting company) side or a language client (which ususally means Javascript) side the year next with HTML and CSS. Be disciplined to learn new things.

Keep good books. I realize that you will find that your earnings are depressing at first and you'll want to not even balance your checkbook. Don't give in to the temptation. Each purchase you make for your business is a tax deduction. Every mile you drive to see a customer's too. Save everything and keep everything together. Consult a CPA this fall to set yourself to save money come the time of taxes in April. You can consider using sure Quicken or Quickbooks Pro - but you should get a list of categories of a CPA, you will use next year so that he or she will be prepared for this kind of things you are spending money.

Do not make a website based on a template, and then do the same Web site for each customer that you'll come across. Make sure that you can be adapted to any kind of look you want.

Realize that Dreamweaver 'plugins' will make you save a lot of time, but never directly load a client for one. Any plugin that buy you needs to work for several clients and a client should not pay for the purchase, which is supposed to make you faster.

Realize that any technique in any plugin lives there too on the Internet. This includes the jQuery effects, drop-down menus, accordions, Rotator image and so on. The advantage of a plugin is to save you time so if you're pressed for time, buy what fits your needs and try to pay back you with the next several customers.

Keep track of your hours spent on each client, so that you know how long it takes to make a website. Make sure that you do more than the minimum wage when you quote one.

Do not have any Web site without a contract. A good lawyer and set up your business and develop a standard contract that you all will have to sign before starting work. Always demand a deposit for your work. Always insist on full payment before launching a website. I love my job, but I love my job for free at all. My company is a limited liability company and that any which prevents to go after all that I have, as my house, my car and so on. I have to pay an annual tax of Business entity in my State, but it's insurance that's worth more worth.

Now, I am sure that my suggestions have all loan in bankruptcy you purchases and expenses. But I have less headaches, because I put things up before I really knew what I was doing.

Now that I know a little more, I'm very happy to show a little.

-Mark

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