Freelance For Money

Interview: Pete Harrison

Posted on 08. Apr, 2010 by Chris Green.

1. How did you get started in Freelancing? How did you land your first customer?

Once I had started to create digital art, I posted it on forums and communities etc..my first customer saw some of my earlier works, and thought I could create something for one of their websites, so they [...]

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Effective Networking for Freelancers [part 2]

Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by Chris Green.

(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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Effective Networking for Freelancers [part 1]

Posted on 05. Mar, 2010 by Chris Green.

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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11 Reasons For Becoming A Freelancer

Posted on 19. Feb, 2010 by Chris Green.

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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You The Brand

Posted on 12. Feb, 2010 by Chris Green.

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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5 Tips to Increase Your Freelance Productivity

Posted on 08. Feb, 2010 by Chris Green.

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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Market yourself for the long term

Posted on 27. Jan, 2010 by Chris Green.

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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‘We the People’ (and for ‘people’ read ‘client’)

Posted on 22. Jan, 2010 by Chris Green.

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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Graphic Design Portfolios

Posted on 17. Jan, 2010 by Chris Green.

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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USPs for Freelancers

Posted on 13. Jan, 2010 by Chris Green.

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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