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    What did you want to do?

    When I was pre-10, I wanted to be a Marine Biologist because I liked dolphins... 11-17, I wanted to be a Graphic Designer. But I was dissuaded mainly because of how awfully it was taught at college. To make me go from completely enthusiastic to completely dissatisfied is a real feat, but I...
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    Does anyone have a good word to say about YODEL?

    Thought I'd come in here with more naysaying about YODEL. A few months ago, I ordered a terrarium for one of my geckos from a website that uses YODEL for deliveries. A terrarium is made almost entirely of glass, so it is very fragile, and the box arrived with fragile stickers on every side. Of...
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    AdWords Account Consultation

    The biggest alarm bell for me is the fact that they are from India, when the UK call centre is in Ireland, and that the number is not accounted for. I checked the number for the Indian adwords help centre and it's not the same. I've sent a screenshot to google adwords reporting on phishing...
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    AdWords Account Consultation

    I keep getting calls and emails about my google adwords account. Apparently they are from google, but the fact that they are continually trying to pester me and (to be honest) are obviously calling from an indian call centre/branch, I'm wondering whether or not they are legitimate. The email...
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    Phone call - SEO £30pm or £250pa. First page of Google.

    My last full-time in-house job was working with a job website, which I redesigned. Now, this employer was... not very generous (illegally less than minimum wage pay, for instance), and they went for an SEO company in India for cheap SEO. Dear lord, that was a disaster. All of the people...
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    Are business cards a thing of the past?

    When I just started out and I didn't know much about designing for print, I got some business cards printed and while the design was good, the print quality was awful (although I think that has a LOT to do with the print company I went with). So all 200 of them ended up not being used at all. I...
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    Can a freelancer in Spain make a claim against a UK company in the Spanish Courts?

    While I can't tell you the answer to your main question - whether or not you may need to deal with the Spanish courts - I can perhaps offer some insight on some of the rest of your experience. Honestly, I really detest freelancers who do this - get paid per hour and then take advantage of it...
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    Suppliers

    Honestly, to me it's unsurprising that people won't allow you to stock their goods when you don't have a premise to sell them from. Where are you going to sell your products? If you have an online store though, that might be different - but you'd still need to convince a few of them to take the...
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    'Live chat' on business websites

    I find them incredibly annoying. Especially if it just bleeps up from nowhere while you're trying to do something on their website... sigh. The only instance I'd suggest for a live chat is to have it in the customer service section. If a customer goes looking for help, it might be good to have...
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    How do small businesses use marketing?

    Interested in learning people's opinions on this too! So a PM or a comment on the thread will do good!
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    Logo and costs

    ^ This probably is the best solution. My suggestion with referrals, to be honest, would not be worth £100 - yet alone more than that - for the designer. If you can't pay now, it might be better to pay over time like Paul suggested.
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    Logo and costs

    The best thing it sounds like you could do is to provide lots of quality referrals. If you know other business owners, and especially if they are looking for a designer, then it might be valuable to the designer in question to know their details -- although you'd have to pretty much be able to...
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    Looking for new clients?

    I normally avoid such websites. There is a lot of potential for exploitation, but I do only search for jobs that are realistic rather than desperately applying to anything. I posted a few hourlies on PPH actually, but with some realistic prices (in comparison, for example, for people offering...
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    Resizing a logo

    Do you have the logo in any other file formats? If you resize a .png, there's a potential for it to lose some of its clarity. Either way, if you want it done well then send it to someone who has photoshop and they'll resize it for you to the dimensions (usually in pixels) that you'd like...
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    what is the pros and cons of working from home?

    I've been working at home for almost two months now. Here's how I've found it so far: Overall, I feel like working from home actually helps me. It might be because I had a bad experience with a bad company prior, but I am actually more productive at home than I was working for that company. I...
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