On Mediabistro: What To Charge For Blog & Social Media Design

The print and online publishing industries may be suffering these days, but the explosion of social networking sites, micro-blogs such as Twitter and traditional blogs are presenting web designers with more potential opportunities than ever.

Whether it’s Twitter avatars, blog design or YouTube channel backgrounds, there’s a ton of demand out there for graphics professionals. But what to charge for your services? Mediabistro offers some advice in this appropriately titled article, “What To Charge: Blog & Social Media Design.” The article by Samantha Melamed is available to AvantGuild members. (If you’re not an AG member, here’s a link to sign up.)

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.