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Sing When You’re Winning: Four Ways to Leap Off the Feast-Famine Rollercoaster

Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by Pete Savage.

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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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Effective Networking for Freelancers [part 2]

Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by Chris Green.

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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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11 Reasons For Becoming A Freelancer

Posted on 19. Feb, 2010 by Chris Green.

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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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You The Brand

Posted on 12. Feb, 2010 by Chris Green.

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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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5 Tips to Increase Your Freelance Productivity

Posted on 08. Feb, 2010 by Chris Green.

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

Posted on 22. Jan, 2010 by Chris Green.

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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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Get more exposure from CSS Galleries

Posted on 22. Dec, 2009 by Chris Green.

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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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Pricing Your Freelance Design Services

Posted on 31. Jul, 2009 by Chris Green.

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There are two ways that a freelance design job can be priced, either a total cost, or an hourly rate. The hourly rate approach is not generally favored as clearly the client wants the job done in the smallest amount of time, naturally to cut costs. Also from the freelancers point of view the total [...]

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Freelancing as a Virtual Assistant

Posted on 26. Jul, 2009 by Chris Green.

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For those that come along to this site quite a bit you’ll know that I major on freelance design and freelance writing.
However, there’s a multitude of skills that will translate well into working freelance and one of those that we will focus on here is the freelance virtual assistant.
If you have some experience in an [...]

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Meeting Your Freelancing Deadlines

Posted on 28. Jun, 2009 by Chris Green.

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Ok, so you’ve been focusing on getting your self promoted online, you’ve had a stack of meetings and now the work is coming in. That’s awesome, BUT … you need to make sure now that you get that work done on time. That means setting yourself some strict deadlines.
When you get a lot of work [...]

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