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How to Start a Home-Based Web Design Business, 3rd (Home-Based Business Series)
by Jim Smith
from Globe Pequot

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• Bargain Price

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Sample Contract is Worth the Price of the Book
  This is a good book for someone who may know more about web design than they know about business. Like others have said, the example web designs aren't very good and look dated. This book is definetly a business book, and a wordy one at that. I found myself skimming some of the paragraphs for just the major points.
  The author relates some of his best practices in his approach to running the business. The sample contract alone is worth the cost of the book and is the reason I gave it 4 stars. The... more info

• Easy to read, good hard facts
  The first time I even casually flipped through the book I was pulled in by good hard practical business advice. I was fascinated because it broke my delusion about what having a business would be like and presented me with real world issues I would face. Given today's competition of automated web building tools and the power of blogs and social sites for the little guys, I don't see web design as making anyone rich, but if you're ok with that, this book might point a business in a more realistic direction.... more info

• Great for ideas to get started with - business minds!
  This is an excellent book. I borrowed v2 from the Library and thought it was well written, an easy read, and packed with great ideas. In fact, so much that I purchased v3 from Amazon the day I finished reading it. There were many places I wanted to highlight and obviously could not with the Library's book! NOTE - This is not a book to learn how to build great sites for people!!! It is to give you good business ideas and for me it definitely has. In fact, I was a little weary about starting a web design... more info

• Some good business advice, Terrible examples of good web design
  Of the thousands of people who design websites and run their own business doing it, I simply do not understand why this author, Jim Smith, was asked to write this book.
  There is some good business advice here, but most of it can be gotten elsewhere and more completely. I suppose most readers will appreciate his sample contract the most.
  But the biggest problem I have with this book is that its subject is Web Design, yet the author is FAR from being the expert. The author's own website is amateur... more info

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