The Designer's Guide To Marketing And Pricing

I love the just plain common sense approach used in this book. It covers all the subject matter needed to help you win customers (the marketing) and then determine what to charge them, and how to have the dreaded money conversations. I have actually read the book once through, and am now working through the material. Ilise and Peleg did a great job. Well worth the price.

I like the way it's written...it's clear and concise. The success stories focus a bit more on the benefits and not as much on the anxities...but still great encouragement that takes the sting out of marketing yourself and your work.

This book is one of the most practice-oriented I've ever read. It's structured in a "question-answer" way to give useful advices and tools for starting and managing creative business in design. To help readers following authors advices they included fill-in blank forms which makes reading this book an interactive and involving process. I would strongly recommend Marketing and Pricing for starting enterpreneurs as well as mature ones to review thier existing practice and to get broader view on managing creativity and design.

I have several times ordered books or tapes that I thought would help me with making decisions about how to move my company forward, how to price, how to market, etc. They have all fallen short with too-general advice or off-subject musings. This one is actually doing what it says it will do...I'm finding it's almost like a road map, helping me to pick my direction, pushing me to think differently, and clarifying things that used to confuse me. Bravo!

If your a freelancer of any sort, not just a designer, and you need help with your marketing then this is a book you should read. The information supplied could readily apply to almost any entrepreneur regardless of the profession. One thing about this book, it really forces you to think about what your doing and what you want to become. There are many many fill in the blanks throughout the book causing some deep introspection for the reader. The pricing section has some good points as well that you should read. But, I think the heart and soul of this book and the one that will have the biggest impact will be the marketing section.