Your Freelance work can be one of the easiest and hardest things you’ll ever have to do – depending on what day it is, how much energy you have, what kind of mood you’re in, etc. Anyone who has ever made a living as a freelance completely understands how hectic things can get. Sometimes it [...]
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The Following is a guest post by Luke van de Paverd, a freelancer from Victoria, Australia.
When starting out in freelancing, often you’ll hear all sorts of advice. Advice like “price yourself cheaply to start with to get some customers”, or “don’t go full time straight off the bat”, etc. That’s all well and good. But [...]
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It always seems freelancers are very good at telling you why they’re great… why to freelance… and how to freelance. I’m sure you will hear many tips from very professional people, but as I’ve been more the client than the freelancer I thought I’d tell you what ‘we the clients’ want.
Over the last few [...]
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We’ve spent a lot of time in recent blog posts examining many ways of getting people onto your website. This is obviously very important. If no-one knows you exist, you wont get any work.
What I haven’t really covered yet on this blog is getting your portfolio right. When you’ve spent all that time marketing your [...]
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If you’re like me and you end up going to networking events a lot, you may just get some crazy marketing person come up to you and ask you your ‘USP’. Then they’ll stand there with a smug grim on their face while you try and work out what the heck they are on about.
So [...]
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In the current climate, it seems to me that if you are going to keep your prices to a decent level then you need to have some substance that will differentiate you from the people slashing their prices. Otherwise, you’ll lose out.
So where do you start? Well, one of the easiest places to start is [...]
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I know many of you that read this blog obviously want to make money by designing. I also know that there’s a lot that are wanting to start a freelance design business but they aren’t really sure exactly how to get started or where to begin.
That’s where this book comes in. Freelance expert, Mason Hipp, [...]
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Web design and CSS galleries are a great source of inspiration for freelance designers. They can also be an excellent way for you to get thousands of links to your portfolio site and of course, exposure for your work.
Not just any old site will get onto these galleries though. Your site needs to be built [...]
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Now, I am not the best at taking time off. Being a designer, blogger, business owner, husband and dad… life can be pretty hectic. So i’m writing this as much for me as I am for you.
When I first started out freelancing I seemed to be working every hour God sent. That didn’t change for [...]
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Twitter have very recently launched their Lists feature. This is is a new way to organize the people you’re following on Twitter, or find new people.
I suppose in a way that Twitter Lists are Twitter’s long awaited “groups” feature. It’s a way for you to bunch together other users on Twitter into groups so [...]
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