March 8th, 2008

So, I finally took the plunge, came up with a name, bought a domain, ordered busi­ness cards, and did all of the paper­work nec­es­sary to get the ball rolling on my very own shiny new (side) busi­ness. I’m really excited to have more con­trol over express­ing my cre­ative side, along with making some extra money to boot. The ulti­mate plan is to grow my own busi­ness and run that full-​time within the next 2-3 years, but for now it will be a side project that I work on along side my cur­rent job. So, with­out fur­ther adieu, I present to you Square­One Web Design.

I antic­i­pate my work­load increas­ing steadily over the next year or two, to the point where I can then quit my job and do this full time. The nice thing about my cur­rent full time gig is the fact that I get one week­day off in the middle of the week. This gives me ample time to focus on other things, and will allow me to ramp up to a second full time job. How­ever, for now at least, it’s all about build­ing con­tacts, build­ing a port­fo­lio, and get­ting a work­flow of my own so that when the time comes, it will be a seam­less tran­si­tion into my own gig.

Why am I doing this? While some it goes back to frus­tra­tion at my cur­rent place of employ­ment, it has been my plan to own my own busi­ness by the time I was in my 30s for quite some time. So really, this is a nat­ural pro­gres­sion for me on the way to that goal. I feel like I have the talent to com­pete just fine with other small design firms around here, and should be quite suc­cess­ful once I get in the swing of things. I’m really excited about the prospects of work­ing from home full time at some point in the future, which is some­thing that’s def­i­nitely real­is­tic in the line of work I am pur­su­ing. On top of that, I kind of love web design. So, if I can do this full time, on my terms, I’m going to be a happy camper.

So, please check out the site and let me know what you think! It’s going to be kind of bare until Michelle and I work on the text, I finish all of the minor changes I want to make to the site, and I get through with my first round of clients … but I figure why not launch now and get the word out. If you’re in Atlanta or the South­east and need web design work done, don’t hes­i­tate to look me up. I’m giving 10% refer­ral fees to friends and folks in the early goings (maybe until the end of August or so), so if you know anyone who needs web work done, send them my way as well & and there’s some money in it for you.

I’ll be chron­i­cling my suc­cesses and fail­ures here as well, but I am also plan­ning to start focus­ing more on web design arti­cles over at the Square­One web site, and more gen­eral stuff here. So maybe you guys will luck out and not have to read as much html-​related stuff anymore.

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One Response to “SquareOne.”

1. SquareOne Redesign | Assorted Nerdery by Daniel Andrews says:
   June 29th, 2008 at 6:37 pm

   [...] know, I know – it has only been a few months since I launched the Square­One Web Design web­site, but as is my custom, I get bored and feel the need to redesign. [...]