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The Best Way To Validate Email Addresses

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It seems like it should be easy to validate email addresses. After all, it’s pretty easy to recognize a valid email address on sight. Shouldn’t that make it easy to validate one with a computer? If only we were so lucky. That Dragon, Email Validation For a long time, web designers worked hard to create […]

How to Start a Video Marketing Campaign From Scratch

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It’s no secret that video marketing has exploded in popularity over the course of the past few years. Nearly 5 billion videos on YouTube are watched per day — and that number is steadily rising. As mobile technology grows more prevalent and more proficient, video marketing will grow to become even more important as an […]

4 Alternatives To The MacBook Pro For Designers

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When it comes to design or even photo editing, most people would look at purchasing a MacBook Pro from Apple as we have been lead to believe that they are the best tool for the job. While they are beautiful pieces of design and generally sport great hardware specs, there are some amazing Windows based […]

Why All Web Developers Need To Be Up-to-speed on Security in 2017

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Countless businesses, organizations and even individual professionals rely on web developers in order to create and maintain a quality site. While an attractive, informative and full-featured site is often essential when it comes to online sales revenue, customer and client interaction and digital promotional efforts, businesses that fail to address the potential risks associated with […]

Project Web Applications for Designers & Developers

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Web developers need to learn a voluminous library of information to start crafting websites. Your first projects are usually simple, but not very good. Over time you practice more and begin to learn concepts surrounding good web design. With this foundation you can start implementing tools and webapps to expedite your performance. Such resources may […]

New Curated Projects on the ForeverGeek Kickstarter Store

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The content found on ForeverGeek is massive and certainly unique. Their website has been around since 2004 and the goal is to provide non-mainstream tech news. It’s a great experience and you can find topics ranging from comics, movies, Internet stuff, and tech gadgets. Recently they launched a new online venue called the ForeverGeek Kickstarter […]

Learn to Manage a Successful Web Design Business

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Creative professionals can learn some of the best ideas through another experienced person. Udemy is a popular online web application for studying offbeat topics by well-educated teachers. You are given a series of video courses which you can study, along with external links provided for research. Larger topics are often broken down into sections which […]

Keep Scammers & Bad Clients Out of Your Freelancing Business

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You’ve probably heard about them. Clients who won’t pay. Clients who treat freelancers poorly. Clients who pile on more work than the freelancer agreed to.

You may have even had the misfortune of working for one yourself. It’s not uncommon for freelance designers to wind up working for a scammer or a bad client.

Some freelance designers view this as an inevitable part of freelancing, but I say that you can keep many scammers and bad clients out of your freelancing business if you take the proper precautions.

In this post, I’ll share a checklist to help you identify scammers and bad clients. If you enjoyed this post, you may also like Is That Client Legit or Just a Tire Kicker?