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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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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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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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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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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Greater Client Service, Greater Clients

Posted on 10. Jan, 2010 by Chris Green.

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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Twitter Lists

Posted on 04. Dec, 2009 by Chris Green.

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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6 Mistakes Freelancers Make When They Blog

Posted on 27. Nov, 2009 by Chris Green.

Now i’ve been telling you freelancers that if you want to be successful and attract loads more clients like a magnet you need marketing tools in your belt. I was going to say tool belt, but enough with the analogies.
In my opinion, one of your tools has to be a blog. I’ll cover why another [...]

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