Freelance Designers on Twitter

Posted on 27. Jul, 2009 by Chris Green.

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Many freelance designers are getting work through twitter. In fact I just read an article about a guy i’ve been following called Jacob Cass. Jacob has an awesome blog called Just Creative Design and he really embraces social media, especially Twitter.
Just last week he finalised his new move to a brand new job, meaning [...]

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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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5 Ways to Market Your Freelance Skills on Facebook

Posted on 12. Jul, 2009 by Chris Green.

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Web 2.0 (whatever that really means) sites are revolutionising how a Freelance Designer can market on the Internet. With over 178 million users (just finished counting), Facebook is possibly the largest social networking site and I beleive it gives you a great opportunity to promote yourself to a huge audience.
As with many other ‘Web 2.0 [...]

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Free Twitter Icon for You

Posted on 10. Jul, 2009 by Chris Green.

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Being a nosy person, i’ve been checking out a load of other designer blogs and it seems the current trend is to create Twitter Icons for other people to use, download and redesign.
So I thought it was only appropriate to have a go myself. Please put your hands together for my first freebie logo, available [...]

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How To Start Using Elance To Find Freelance Business

Posted on 05. Jul, 2009 by Chris Green.

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Finding work is one of the biggest challenges facing a newbie freelancer. There are plenty of sites out there with job listings, but they all seem to be overrun by people with years of experience and job postings that demand numerous ‘clips’ (that’s published journalistic articles) or a résumé as long as the beards those [...]

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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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Promote yourself with great ideas not great expense

Posted on 24. Jun, 2009 by Chris Green.

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This week I have invited guest blogger Steve Campbell from Debut to tell us about his strategic idea to get more work. Freelancers can learn a lot from these principles of thinking differently to get the attention of your potential clients.
“As a relatively small Design Agency, we are aware of the costs involved in self [...]

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3 Cures for Twitter Addiction

Posted on 22. Jun, 2009 by Chris Green.

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Twitter is revolutionizing the way freelancers can market their skills on the Internet. It has proven to be a phenomenal tool for getting your message in front of the right people.
If you’ve spent any amount of time on Twitter, you’ll know that people Tweet about almost anything! Some twit about new blog posts [...]

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Choosing the right freelance Business

Posted on 22. Jun, 2009 by Chris Green.

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When you are considering going freelance, there is a set of decisions that must be made. First, you must decide whether or not working at home is right for you. Next, you need to consider what type of work at home job you will be doing. There are many opportunities for freelances out there, both [...]

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