I had been reading about a guy who has been creating about 3-4 sites a week based on celebrities. Each site was only a couple pages with very basic info- biography, pictures, links. Yet he loaded them up with AdSense and is making $2.00+ from each site per day. Hes now up to a collection [...]
So, I have finished up a new website for a client and it has taken a lot longer than was anticipated. The reason? Getting content from my client took a very long time (2+ months). The original timeline for the project was about 6-7 weeks. I was on schedule and ready to go, however, it took a very long time and many many emails to get the content I needed from my client to finish up the website. The project started in August, and now it finally launched just a few days ago and here it is almost a new year.
I know many of you out there that read Dorm Room Biz are web designers in some sort of fashion and deal with clients on a daily basis just like I do. So I wanted to share a few different ways in which I think may be helpful to keep your projects on schedule and have a successful on time launch – focusing on getting the content from the client.
1. Set a schedule – It is important when you start a new project to clearly lay out with the client a schedule of when things will be completed on your side and when they are expected to be completed by your client. Once agreeing to something pleasing to both of you, agree to it and move forward. It is very important that you try your hardest to keep to the schedule and stress the importance of it to your client. However, while setting a schedule, build in time for delays in the project – such as waiting for responses or content from the client. If you think a project will take you 5 weeks, add an extra week or even two if you have the time to do so and it won’t cause any problems (with other projects or financially).
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I have been working for the past few months on the new website for Health Analytics and it has finally been launched. I started this project back in August and it was supposed to be quick and finished within a month and a half. Well, as many of you know, it is a pain to [...]
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Good news everyone! I finally took the leap in registering Radford Auctions as an official company, a general partnership, and will hopefully be receiving notification in a couple weeks letting us know that everything is complete and we are a fully registered company. I have already filled out the Tax ID Number form at the [...]
I just wanted to give everyone a quick update on what is going on and appologize for the lack of posting! School work has been kicking my butt recently and then on top of that the different organizations that I am involved in have been taking up a lot of time. So once I do [...]
Theres just not enough time in the day to accomplish everything I want to. I must need to sleep less or something to be able to fit everything in! I appologize for not being able to blog much lately. I had a marketing exam this week and then have a political science exam on Tuesday, [...]
