{"id":2164,"date":"2013-03-16T17:31:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T17:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2013.atlanta.wordcamp.org\/?p=2164"},"modified":"2013-03-18T17:56:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T17:56:08","slug":"how-to-make-six-figures-in-web-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2013\/how-to-make-six-figures-in-web-design\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Make Six Figures In Web Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> James Dalman<br \/>\n<strong>Twitter:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/jamesdalman\" target=\"_blank\">@jamesdalman<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Presenter Slides:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdalman.com\/wordcampatl\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/jamesdalman.com\/wordcampatl\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Focus on strengths<\/strong> &#8211; It\u2019s very rare that you can be good at design and development.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t try to become the jack of all trades.<br \/>\n<strong>Build your confidence<\/strong> &#8211; If you don\u2019t have confidence in yourself, how do you expect your clients to be confident in you? Sometimes people will sign-up because you believe in yourself.<br \/>\n<strong>Invest in relationships<\/strong> &#8211; Invest in your clients, if you truly care then you\u2019ll do great work.<br \/>\nInvest in other designers\/developers, it&#8217;s important to give back to the next generation.<br \/>\n<strong>Find great clients<\/strong> &#8211; Respond to your emails, respond to your phone calls.<br \/>\n<strong>Sell true value<\/strong> &#8211; Don\u2019t charge hourly, charge per project. Give them great value and they won\u2019t care about the price.<br \/>\n<strong>Price for profit<\/strong> &#8211; Make money on your services.<br \/>\n<strong>Do Awesome work<\/strong> &#8211; Just because you aren\u2019t the greatest designer\/developer doesn\u2019t mean you shouldn\u2019t try your hardest. Always thrive to do better.<br \/>\n<strong>Final thoughts<\/strong> &#8211; Act on your ideas or they\u2019ll never get done. Strive to be successful, but keep in mind that money isn\u2019t the most important thing. Just get out there and do it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: James Dalman Twitter: @jamesdalman Presenter Slides: http:\/\/jamesdalman.com\/wordcampatl\/ Focus on strengths &#8211; It\u2019s very rare that you can be good at design and development. Don\u2019t try to become the jack of all trades. Build your confidence &#8211; If you don\u2019t have confidence in yourself, how do you expect your clients to be confident in you? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8480538,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YmVp-yU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8480538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2199,"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions\/2199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}