14 Great Design, Marketing and Freelancing Blogs
Share Hi all, I thought I would post up 14 blogs that have sat in my subscribe list on Google reader since the dawn of the time. Why do i think these blogs are so special? They actually provoke thought.
Maintaining Business Standards As A Freelancer
Share Freelancing is very different to the majority of other businesses due to its innately personal involvement and attachment to every aspect of the business. Maintaining objectivity and a decisive decision process can be hard as your personal feelings begin to creep into the equation.
How to Avoid Over Working Yourself As A Freelancer
Share When running your own business it is very easy to run yourself into the ground as it feels like there is always something that needs to be done…
A Monitor for Every Budget – What Monitor for Photography and Design?
Share Once again, I found an excuse to upgrade my monitor and so went on the hunt for the best design appropriate monitors. A while back I did another search and came up with the list of monitors for design. I went for the HP w2558hc in the end. Great monitor and I can’t recommend [...]
General Rules For Doing Free Freelance Work
Share Every now and then, hopefully not too often something may come along whether it is for family / friends / a charitable cause / a non-profit organisation etc where you make the decision to waive your normal fee for your services. I have been in a few of these situations and I have learnt [...]
Interview With Will Kay of OddKingdom – Becoming Your Brand
Share When first starting out in any of the creative arts as a freelancer or sole designer; marketing is one of the biggest concerns. Getting clients, letting people know that you exist. Many of us started out and drudged through the first year or so through referrals, family and friends and exhausting every contact we [...]
Factors To Consider When Pricing For A Project
Share One of the things I suffered from in the beginning when pricing clients is often forgetting to bill for all aspects of a project and thus half way through I was feeling cheated or clients were commenting on how remarkably low my prices where in comparison to other quotes they had received. We all [...]
Should You Find a Niche To Stand Out From The Pack?
Share This is a question that often comes up in my head, in my daily attempts at plotting on how to take over the design universe.. that surely it must be easy to top google and take over all the clients in the world if I find a niche. However, starting out, one might not [...]
Long Term Freelancing Success – Part 1 – Dedication
Share Hi all, welcome to what I hope to be a series about some factors I think will be key to long term success..The first is to address your working discipline. Read many interviews of freelancers and a common answer to ‘what do you love about being a freelancer?’ – one of the expected answers [...]
10 Ways To Score and Evaluate A Client
Share My past two posts have covered how to deal with non-paying clients and clients who want to become the designer. Good clients do exists and for the most part form the majority of your clientele; in a book I read through the idea of evaluating your clients. Times are hard, sending christmas cards to [...]
How To Deal with Non-Paying Clients
Share At some point you will come face to face with the worst type of client. The client who despite numerous attempts on your behalf, is refusing to pay outstanding fees on a project. As a business you will at some point have to go after a non-paying client, and as such should be prepared [...]
When Your Client Wants To Become The Designer
Share Every now and then you receive a client who gets involved in your end of the deal, and is questioning / making firm suggestions about directions to take. This could be due to their eagerness, misunderstanding of professional boundaries or personality; but it needs to be addressed when they begin to intrude too much [...]
11 Articles To Stop You Making Designer Mistakes
Share 1) Just Creative Design – Bad Graphic Design Yes, this is a controversial topic, however I hope to raise awareness of some mistakes you may be making in your graphic design pieces that are making you look amateurish, but please keep in mind that none of these are hard and fast rules, this is [...]
Creative Block – Beating It – Fresh ideas and inspiration
Share So your self-promotion has worked and you have that all important new client. The project itself has scope for you to add some personal style or artistic flair to it as well. After the initial brainstorming, research and sketches you are nowhere – with nothing visual to guide yourself. Creative block! We have various [...]
Referrals – Freelancing Dreams
Share We were just having through our client list generated during 2009. Kind of surprised but encouraged to see that a substantial amount of our work came through referrals. Referrals – Need ‘Em, Get ‘Em, Love ‘Em. Referrals are great as clients who have used your services and are happy bar the standard of your [...]
Jan 04, 2010 | Categories: Commentary, Marketing | Tags: Advice, client, referrals | 3 Comments »