{"id":138,"date":"2013-01-08T20:47:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T20:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jacksowden.co.uk\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2013-01-12T09:50:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T09:50:14","slug":"2012-review-a-busy-year-but-looking-forwards-to-an-even-busier-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jacksowden.co.uk\/blog\/2012-review-a-busy-year-but-looking-forwards-to-an-even-busier-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Review, a busy year but looking forwards to an even busier 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2012 has been a good year for me keeping busy throughout. I have continued working with many long-term clients on a freelance basis. I have also made some exciting new clients who I will be carrying on working with in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>I have been receiving a lot of referrals from past clients and also a steady stream of enquiries coming through LinkedIn and this website. I have also been referred some smaller jobs from local website design companies as they cannot cater for low budget websites.<\/p>\n<p>At points throughout 2012 I had to turn work down as it seems many website owners &amp; agencies were struggling to find reliable web developers &amp; designers at reasonable rates.<\/p>\n<p>It is obvious to me now that there is so much website related work out there. I am really glad I made the jump into this industry.<\/p>\n<p>I hate turning work down as it really did seem there were a lot of the people who couldn\u2019t find someone to help them. For this reason I have now sourced some other reliable developers and designers to help take on the extra jobs when my workflow is high. I will still deal directly with clients rather than passing the work on, as I want to keep a close eye on the quality of the work that is been produced under my name.<\/p>\n<p>Having these extra developers &amp; designers on board will also allow me to take on larger projects preventing me being tied up for months on end. I am aiming to get a network of freelancers who I am confident working with and then really starting to market our services. If you may be interested in working with me please get in-touch.<\/p>\n<p>During 2012 a few larger clients used my services rather than website design agencies as they wanted a service on a more personal level. In a few of these cases it seemed the larger web companies could not offer website updating and maintenance services. For this reason I am now offering these services via my new website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lovewebsitehosting.com\">www.lovewebsitehosting.com<\/a> which will be live shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Over the coming year I am going to update this website with any new projects in which \u00a0I am involved with which can be displayed. I am hoping to revamp the way in which I display the project on this website and also create another site as mentioned above which will be aimed at clients who are interested budget website packages and managed website hosting.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the projects I work on cannot be displayed on this site as I work alongside other companies or they are behind a private logins. During 2012 I worked on some really exciting projects learning much from them. Below are some of the highlights from 2012<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Created an Object Orientated Content Management System aimed at school websites.<\/li>\n<li>Worked with both iTagg &amp; TxtNation API\u2019s to send text via a website.<\/li>\n<li>Created 70 website from scratch for a whole range of clients.<\/li>\n<li>Worked with a teams of developers in the USA &amp; Australia on some large projects.<\/li>\n<li>Was trusted by a number of agencies to help run their digital side of their business.<\/li>\n<li>I am sure they are some more&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank you for reading and I hope everyone has a successful 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2012 has been a good year for me keeping busy throughout. I have continued working with many long-term clients on a freelance basis. I have also made some exciting new clients who I will be carrying on working with in 2013. 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