Our goal for the rest of the year is to cover our costs by working exclusively on United Pixelworkers and Cotton Bureau. If we haven't quite bridged the gap, we might take on brief, time-blocked consulting work after the holidays. This would be a big, big change from how we've operated for the past four years. All the previous work we did was flat-fee, project. We'd work with a client from strategy to launch. The consulting we were referring to in this would be a 20 or 30 hour, one week engagement and it might not result in us writing a single line of code or opening Photoshop/Illustrator.

We have a couple options for staying in business if United Pixelworkers and Cotton Bureau don't grow fast enough to sustain us. We'd prefer not to need to explore those options, but I hope you can understand why we need to leave that door open. We'd be very sad if we had to stop doing what we enjoy because we ran out of money, and a lot of other people would be too.

Yeah, it's kind of a press release for United Pixelworkers and Cotton Bureau, but that's only for people who don't know who we are. Within the web design industry, we have lots of friends who would be interested to know why we're done working with clients. We tried to write something that works for everyone. We'll be writing a lot next week on United Pixelworkers and Cotton Bureau to speak directly to those audiences.