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Placing something so valuable as your custom website design, business cards, brochures, and other company marketing materials in the hands of a someone else can be very scary. After all, this person will be creating what your customers see, their work will be the deciding factor if a customer looks at you and your company and determine if they want to buy from you.

In the past companies hired a design agency knowing they had the knowledge and expertise needed to make any project a success. However, with a more competitive marketplace and smaller budgets companies are looking for ways to save money but still receive the quality services they need.

Many professionals email us daily wondering what it takes to be approved as a freelancer on Expertz on Demand.com and Nick Dominguez is a perfect example of the high caliber talent that both companies and competing professionals can expect as the standard grade quality you will find within our network.

 

Nick is a great interface designer that fuses form and function in the perfect balance that is expected from the best freelancers (*hint). Reviewing the websites that Nick has created showed that he knew exactly how to design a website that changes a visitor into a customer, with great call to actions, balanced colors for design and bold colors to highlight the most important parts of the website that customers should be aware of. The implementation of great call to action proved to us that Nick could produce websites for our clients that converted website visitors in actual customers and made their browsing experience more enjoyable.

I'm sure everyone by now have heard the success stories of Mike Bloomberg, Tom Anderson, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and many other entrepreneurs that made billions by starting their own companies and in some ways you feel you can do the same. However, before you make the big jump or if you already have here are some tips and mistakes you should avoid.

1) Never Work from Home

Yes Microsoft started in a garage, Myspace and Dell from dorm rooms however, it is a known fact that your productivity levels increase as much as 70% when you are in a working environment, especially one that is fast paced and the people you are working with or around are smart and talented.

They are other cheap alternatives to spending thousands of dollars on office space if you don't have the cash. Programs such as business incubators, coworking, sharing office space or bartering (trading services) for office space can be a great way to start.

These alternatives are usually great to start off with and can easily be found doing a Google/Bing search. For business incubators visit NBIA.org or check out the popular Y-Combinator.