Author name: nik pick

My renewal notice arrived, and my jaw hit the desk. My premium jumped from $600 to $950—a 58% increase. I

I tried to save money by only buying “Business Insurance” (General Liability). Then a client sued me because my website

I switched insurance providers in January to save $20 a month. In March, a client sued me for a logo

I’m based in Chicago, but I landed a big branding project for a London-based fashion house. When the project went

I had the email. “Approved for print!” the client wrote. I sent the files. 10,000 brochures arrived with a critical

I was tight on cash and used a “cracked” version of the Creative Suite for a few months. A metadata

I used a gripping photo of a crowd for a client’s bank advertisement. I bought the license on a major

I copy-pasted the ingredients list from the client’s old Word doc, missing the “Contains: Peanuts” line for the new chocolate