Freelancing
10 Advices When Meeting a Potential Client
When you first begin your freelancing career you might underestimate the aspects of the job. Going from employee to working for yourself will force you to restructure your focus. When you become a freelancer, you become an identify of yourself as well as a brand. Showing clients your creativity/managerial... continue reading
The Case for Blogging: Getting Started as a Freelancer
Believe it or not, not everyone is a fan of blogging. In fact, some people actually think that blogging can be a detriment to your credibility, or a blemish on an otherwise impressive record. Needless to say, these people wouldn’t be excited to look at your blog as a... continue reading
5 Things to Do When You are Out of Work
As a freelancer there are times when you will have no work at hand….and your first reaction…….YOU PANIC!!! If you are reading this from America or Europe, we all know that things have been kind of rough in the last few years. A large amount of people don’t have... continue reading
Deadlines and that Designers’ Block
Writers have been known to hit a wall when nothing seems to work. Ideas don’t flow through and when something does come in, it doesn’t translate well onto paper. The same phenomenon has been known to strike graphic designers as well. In fact, for graphic designers, this might be... continue reading
Freelacing vs Agency Life
Few professions lend themselves to the activity of freelancing such as design and illustration. For many people the choice is determined by their behavior. For those who do not like risk, will less likely be attracted by the freelancing lifestyle. However, the irrepressible creative will find working in an agency limiting... continue reading
How to Battle Difficult Clients as a Freelancer
We’ve all been here: after receiving an assignment from a client, you complete the work to the best of your abilities, as advertised, only to find that the client had something drastically different in mind. He refuses to pay until you make some revisions, at which point he’s still... continue reading
5 Ways to Write Web Content that Entices the Brain
It’s getting more difficult to get and keep users on your Web site long enough for them to absorb the information you’ve worked so hard to provide. Most of us are so busy multitasking that our attention spans are pretty much non-existence. The fact is, if you don’t hook... continue reading
Freelance like a King or Queen
Often times we hear about how great it is working for ourselves, how much happier we’ll be, how much more time we’ll have to spend with friends and family or just how awesome it is not having to wake up early and spend all day having to answer to... continue reading
