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.
Quote Robot – A Nifty Little App!
Share Quote Robot is an app that I came across recently that seemingly streamlined the tedious task of writing proposals for lots of freelance designer’s out there. Intrigued, I signed up and have been giving the free trial a run for its uhh… money.
How do your organise yourself as a freelance designer? – Part 2
Share Hi all.. Welcome to Part 2 of the first post: How do your organise yourself as a freelance designer? This is more of a search for ideas and methods than an informative article. No matter how often I tidy and plan ahead, my desk after about 2 weeks always seems to revert back to [...]
Freelancing From Home and Staying Productive
Share If you have chosen to work from and not from an office, then you are probably faced with the same problems that I am, most notable is the problem of staying productive! More experienced freelancers have probably long tamed the beasts that tempt us when working from home… how do you stay productive at [...]
Does a successful freelancer have to be a good sales person?
Share When starting out, when your down in the trenches fighting against the colossal agencies and your fellow freelancing kin, do you have to be a good sales person in order to secure projects? Do you feel freelancers need to be sales orientated? Are you a good sales person? The internet has given clients information [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Competing Against The Agency – The Freelancer’s Epic Battle
Share As a ‘noob’ to the freelance design industry in what I would consider a truly professional manner; I was somewhat naive as to how hard it would be to find clients. After the initial shock, I found myself confronted with one monumental competitor that seemed like Goliath; leaving me feeling like David (without his [...]
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 [...]
10 Resources to Help You Decide What To Charge for Design Work
Share As website designers , we know all to well how difficult it can be to competitively price your work; we compiled the following list of resources to help us in our endeavors. 1) Design Talkboard: ‘How much to charge for Graphic Design’ in reality, freelance designers will need to research carefully and develop a [...]
Copyright Your Artwork
As artists and creative minds it is becoming ever more important to make sure you copyright your work! This protects you from infringement, criminal clients and a host of other problems that can arise when you realise someone has stolen your work. We are about to produce a poster for mass sale through various outlets, so we have managed to find out the following on copyright in the UK. If you have anything to add or correct, let us know!!!
Don’t be another washed up freelancer – The Freelance Lifecycle
Share The more I network on sites such as twitter and talk to freelancers around the world; typical life – cycle seems to be the same for freelancers – especially within the first 6 months and a condition that I am now going to call ‘the-slump‘ strikes again!
Feb 21, 2010 | Categories: Commentary, Marketing | Tags: client, Freelancing, Marketing | 1 Comment »