THE BUSINESS DEPARTMENT focuses on business management for graphic designers and creatives, including: management, marketing, promotion, accounting, bidding, legal issues, copyright and operating your creative business for maximum profitability. 
The competitive crunch and convergence in communications marketplace is fueling increased customer churn, testing loyalty. This study by the COM Council and the Customer Experience Board highlights critical need for improved customer retention and handling. November 20, 2009
In a few days the forums at www.dtg-forums.com will disappear and new forums will open at www.graphic-design.com. Forums at graphic design are moving. November 2, 2009
Who has the most problem keeping up with time tracking, invoicing, billing, and profitability? Creatives? Desktop Publishers? Graphic artists? You bet. Fanurio time tracking and billing software may be your solution October 29, 2009
Palm Pre: The Missing Manual - This beautiful, full-color book from USA Today personal-technology columnist Ed Baig will help you go from newcomer to expert in no time. October 25, 2009
Album DS now supports photographic and press printed books from American Color Imaging. This includes pre-defined product selections for many of ACI's products. Customers can easily begin new projects for ACI and even resize existing album or design projects to fit ACI's specifications automatically. October 19, 2009
Intego posted an article about Apple's new anti-malware function in Snow Leopard. This article provided a comparison of Apple's anti-malware function and VirusBarrier X5, and outlines some of the features that are present, or missing, in Apple's function. October 18, 2009
With the size of drives growing in leaps and bounds these days, a good backup solution is a necessity. If you use CDs or DVDs, this creates another problem. We have over 100 CDs of back client work. What do you do? October 14, 2009
Glue is best known for its ability to push information to multiple social network profiles at once. For now, you can run the beta version, but early next year they plan a paid version which will push to over 15 social profiles October 12, 2009
Creatives always find it difficult to stay on top of estimating, time tracking and billing. iBiz now offers Mac users for time-tracking, billing and project management designed to help free-lancers and small business owners stay on top of their billing September 25, 2009
Noted author Susan Kirkland looks at web site piracy, and shares some insight into sites that have been ripped off, and how to protect yourself with some simple common law and copyright resources. August 18, 2009