Chapter
Resources		 The Geek's Guide to Internet Business Success by Bob Schmidt. The Definitive Business Blueprint for Internet Developers, Programmers, Consultants, Marketers and Service Providers.

 

 

Chapter 1
Getting Started
as an Internet Professional
Introduction

Chapter 1
Getting Started as an Internet Professional

Chapter 2
Your Role as a Consultant

Chapter 3
Planning Your Business

Chapter 4
Assembling Your Team

Chapter 5
Setting Your Rates

Chapter 6
What the Client Expects from the Internet and You

Chapter 7
Finding Customers

Chapter 8
Planning Your Presentation

Chapter 9
Making the Presentation

Chapter 10
Writing the Proposal and Contract

Chapter 11
Organizing and Managing the Website Development Process

Chapter 12
Billing and Budgeting

Chapter 13
Growing the Business

About these pages

Chapter Overview

The advent of the Internet as a serious business environment, as a place to do business, has also brought about new professions. HTML Writers, web designers, web developers, Internet programmers and Internet marketing consultants were unheard of just a few years ago. Today, there are tens of thousands of such professionals. This chapter provides an overview of this phenomenon, the major tasks to be performed and other aspects of importance to Internet professionals. Updated 06/03/2012

Links to resources relevant to this chapter.

International Webmasters Association
www.iwanet.org

HTML Writers Guild
www.hwg.org

Webgrrls
http://www.webgrrls.com

Network Professional Association
www.npanet.org

Independent Computer Consultants Association
www.icca.org

American Association of Webmasters
www.aawebmasters.com

UK Web Design Association
www.ukwda.org

Other Organizations

American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)

American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)

Association for the Advancement of Computers in Education (AACE)

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

British Human Computer Interface Group

Girl's Guide to Web Design

Graphic Artist Guild (GAG)

Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS)

The Information Architecture Institute

InformationDesign.org

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society (IEEE)

Internet Professional Publishers Association

Interaction Design Association (IxDA)

Internet Society (ISOC)

PHP Women

Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI)

Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia and the Web (SIGWEB)

Systems, Applications, and Products (SAP) Design Guild

Usability Professionals Association (UPA)

Usability Special Interest Group

Web Design and Developers Association

Web Industry Professionals Association Incorporated (WIPA) of Australia

Web Standards Group (WSG)

Web Standards Project (WasP)

Wise Women

World Organization of Webmasters (WOW)

World Wide Web Artists' Consortium (WWWAC)

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

 

The Geek's Guide to Internet Business Success
The Definitive Business Blueprint for Internet Developers, Programmers, Consultants, Marketers and Service Providers

Author: Bob Schmidt
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 0471288381
06/03/2012