Want to issue a limited edition print of your artwork? Here are the essential tips for making it beautiful and collectible.

How would your business be affected if your clients thought about you in the same way as millions of fans do about Eric Clapton? Would it increase the number of clients you have? Would you get more referrals? Would you be able to increase your fees and your profits? Then you have to convert the people who hire you from clients to fans. How do you do that? It's not as difficult as you may think.

There's probably no marketing tool as impressive as a book. Imagine how confident you'll feel as you hand a copy of a book about you and your work to a prospective client! And imagine how much more you'll stand out in that prospect's mind when he or she compares your book to brochures left behind by other designers or artists.

Finding a small bit of time each day to feed your creativity will not only reward you with increased creativity, but also an expanded sense of appreciation and gratitude for the creative process.

Buyers pay a lot less attention to price than you think they do. It's a proven fact that less than 10% of buyers buy ONLY on price. The fact is, most buyers are more than willing to pay premium prices when you have taken the time to educate them about the value they will receive in return.

If you're charging what you're worth then you're going to be cutting loose the bottom 10-15 percent of your clients each year. But nobody likes to be "the bad guy" so when the time comes to move on what do you do? The answer isn't to just pack their bag and say, "See you later Charlie!". Nor is it to hang on to the guilt--and the clients--"because you don't want to hurt their feelings."

You suddenly find yourself at leisure when a job or assignment ends. What to do next? Don't panic! Here are ten tips, plus a bonus, about what to do right now.

The number and variety of printers offering online services has exploded, bringing high-quality, low cost services to designers worldwide. Here's a review of some of the best services we've found.

Many courses and workshops advertising 'digital photography' have little or nothing to do with actual photography.  What you get instead is a workshop in photo-editing. How to fix up your bad photos, how to superimpose rainbows and birds into your landscapes and how to remove freckles and pimples from your portraits. The result could be a generation of 'photographers' who know more about fixing up their mistakes on a computer than about taking good photos in the first place.