I have been a fan of others projects Catherine (cat) Morley has worked on. Some of which include Designers Who Blog, No!SPEC and Creative Latitude. The news that popped into my Google Reader today was definitely some cool stuff. I actually received the news from Neil Tortorella’s blog, Inside the Marketing Mind. Neil is one of Cat’s partners on this new project.

This new project is called Business of Design Online or BoDo for short. As a designer who is trying to work my way into self employment with my own design business, I find this new site to be a very exciting addition to my bookmarks and RSS reader.

According to the BoDo site…

BoDo is
Where to come for practical business advice. Maybe you’ve already made a range of expensive mistakes. Maybe you are trying to avoid the possibilities. No prob, your-mistakes-are-us.

BoDo is grass-roots-get-down-and-dirty-love-yo-mamma. We’ll talk about serious subjects such as “When to bring in a PITA clause,” “How to keep your clients” and “How to fire a client.” As well as lighter fare like “Working in your undies” and “How to tell when your down time is up.”

Honestly I feel this is exactly what I have been looking for and the fact that it is being run by some designers that I admire makes it even better. The information is going to come straight from people who have experienced it first hand and are willing to share those experiences with us. This could help us prevent stumbles or even full out crashes with our own business.

I look forward to what BoDo is going to offer. This is exciting news and I want to wish all the parties involved in this project the best of luck!

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