Comments on: Organize and manage your design business

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 20:05:38 +0000

Mark,

I just do it – if they wish to not be emailed at a later time then I don’t.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 12:05:51 +0000

Regarding your comments on saving people’s email addresses for later, which is a great idea, do you ask clients to opt out of you storing these details or do you just do it?

By: Chris Porter

Chris Porter — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:44:58 +0000

Nice article. I had to post this for the newbie freelancers I know. We both have the same working style, or basically if you freelanced for a long time, you just know what to do.

I switched from just a freelance company to a LLC with a business partner, so I have more of a hectic time with fees and taxes.

On the other hand, I use Google Apps for everything. Email, contacts, excel docs, saved contracts and questionnaires, shared calendars with my business partner, etc.

I use Solo (http://thrivesolo.com/) (just started using it) for my project management. My partner and I work lawfirm style (we have our own clients under one brand, collab on some projects together, but rarely since we are two designers…lol), so we use our own accounts. Subernova was good too, but I’m not too thrilled with full flash sites handling my stuff. Solo just implemented invoicing, but I haven’t tried it out yet and don’t know if it ties to Paypal.

Of course, Dropbox is used for my file storage with that backed up to an external.

For to do lists, either my trusty moleskine for on the go note taking and then wunderlist for my actual todos.

By: Alicia St Rose

Alicia St Rose — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:56:12 +0000

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! for introducing me to Remember the Milk. Awesome!
I have subscribed to this blog. You are very inspiring!

By: Rob T.

Rob T. — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:05:39 +0000

Great sharing Brian!
I uses Dropbox for a while now, but never worked directly into it. I’ll give it a try.

These are some of the tools I use:
- Dropbox (filesharing)
- TaDalist (todo lists)
- Zoho invoice (billing)
- Toggl (time management)

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By: Lori

Lori — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 12:02:42 +0000

Thanks for the great post. I am just starting to do serious freelancing and am thinking of giving ApolloHQ a try since it seems to do a lot of what you mentioned. It is all a little overwhelming!

By: Chris R.

Chris R. — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:32:13 +0000

I use freshbook.com to take care for my invoicing and project estimates. Works great with paypal too..

By: Web Design

Web Design — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:14:19 +0000

Great stuff in the world of webdesign its hard to try and maintain our clients and developers but now I just got the new moment and am stoked cause now I can manage everyone that much easier

thanks bro

By: Toby

Toby — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:20:11 +0000

Hey Brian!

Thanks for sharing your great tips about organizing a “one man/women show”!
Especially the tip of using Subernova was a great one, I’d used MacFreelance so far, but Subernova seems to be a better solution.

Regards from Germany,

Toby