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Building a Lifestyle Web Design Business

Paul Boag ● May 1st, 2013 ● Business | Tagged lifestyle business, paul boag, productivity, web design, web design business ● 6 comments
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The dream of many web designers is to become their own boss. Unfortunately, this dream all too often turns into a nightmare. How can we take control and return to our initial vision? Many of us picture running our own …Continue reading →

Why “Business Types” Should Learn to Code

Pasan Premaratne ● April 30th, 2013 ● Business ● 5 comments
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Being able to code is pretty cool. It really does feel like a superpower to be able to create something from next to nothing. While it is a great idea for everyone to learn to code, I think it is …Continue reading →

How to Get the Design Job You've Always Wanted, from a CEO's Point of View

Michael Westafer ● March 11th, 2013 ● Business | Tagged design jobs, how to get a job, jobs in the web industry, web development jobs ● 1 comment
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How I Landed My First Design Job I graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in the mid-90s and started a slow crawl into my design career. After about six months of applying to a few jobs here …Continue reading →

Startup Woes: Co-founder or Fly Solo?

Pasan Premaratne ● February 22nd, 2013 ● Business | Tagged co-founder, founder, startup ● 1 comment
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There are many woes when starting a company but one of the most common and earliest is whether you should start the company yourself or bring in a co-founder. It is definitely not an easy question to answer, and there …Continue reading →

7 Things Every Entrepreneur Should Consider When Setting Up Social Media Accounts

Belle Beth Cooper ● February 19th, 2013 ● Business, Marketing | Tagged social media, social media marketing ● 2 comments
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Setting up a new business on social networks takes much more than filling in a form. Lots of the most important aspects are easily overlooked when creating a new business profile or page. Maintaining consistency across the web with your …Continue reading →

Getting Started with Customer Development for Your Startup

Belle Beth Cooper ● February 5th, 2013 ● Business, Marketing | Tagged customer development, customer interviews, ryan carson, steve blanks ● 1 comment
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Treehouse’s own CEO, Ryan Carson, wrote a post on the Treehouse blog recently about an experience he had of “getting out of the building.” It was one of those classic examples that all the best Customer Development books have, of …Continue reading →

Find Your Dream Job in 3 Steps

Nick Pettit ● February 1st, 2013 ● Business, Web Industry | Tagged find a job, job ● 2 comments
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A big part of our mission at Treehouse is to help our members start new careers in the tech industry. Our curriculum focuses on job-ready skills that are applicable to the real-world, and if members are interested, we’ll help them …Continue reading →

9 SEO Leaders Reveal Their Most Significant SEO Wins

Eric Siu ● January 21st, 2013 ● Business, Make a Website, Marketing, SEO, Start a Business ● 26 comments
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SEO isn’t going anywhere. In fact, it’s such an efficient customer acquisition channel that companies such as Amazon and Airbnb have specifically carved out SEO roles to make sure their organic search efforts are going at full speed. However, SEO …Continue reading →

Better Freelance Business Practices

Tim Smith ● January 17th, 2013 ● Business | Tagged Business, design business, freelance, freelance design ● 2 comments
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Freelancing is regarded as the holy grail in our industry. It’s something most people look to as a magical fantasy land where all dreams come true. However, being a freelancer can be very difficult if you don’t know much about …Continue reading →

Watching Your Customers is Brutal

Ryan Carson ● December 27th, 2012 ● Business, Start a Business ● No comments
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I got a haircut recently and my barber asked what I do. I explained that I’m the Founder of Treehouse and that one of our goals is to take someone with no web development skills, get them job-ready, and then …Continue reading →

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