Sing When You’re Winning: Four Ways to Leap Off the Feast-Famine Rollercoaster
Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by Pete Savage.
When Chris Green invited me to write a guest article for this blog, at first, I was happy.
But then I realized that a large portion of Chris’s audience is made up of freelance designers, and since I’m a freelance copywriter, this would mean I’d be talking to a lot of people who dress cooler than [...]
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(Click here for Part 1 of Effective Networking for Freelancers)
With the importance role that networking plays for freelancers, the question then becomes where do we network? As far as events and organizations go, networking can be done in two ways. One approach is to register and attend events organized by industry associations for the industry [...]
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Freelancers have a variety of networking options available to them. It is all a matter of identifying which networking options are most appropriate for your business and then making the best of them. The end goal is to make sure that the methods used will maximize your prospective client base. In this article, we’re [...]
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If you have been thinking about starting your own freelancing career and are hoping for just one good reason why you should become a freelancer here are eleven of them.
1. Job Opportunity.
With today’s economy there are many people who simply can’t find work or who are working less hours than they need to make ends [...]
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In the past, Freelancing has often been seen as an ‘in between’ job. People assume that you aren’t really a business, you’re just getting by doing work for other people. Unfortunately, this can very easily be the case and you can become enslaved to your client’s demands.
But be encouraged, there are also some very successful [...]
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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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Nicholas Nelson: The schedule has got to be one of the most importa...
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Ryan Konko: Great article Chris! I sometimes have a tough time...
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Luke: Great post Chris. I agree that a portfolio is impo...
