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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Do You Organise Yourself As A Freelance Designer?
Share 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 the same crazy chaotic mess that it does. Trying to give everything that I have to do/ handle organised [...]
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 [...]
Feb 03, 2010 | Categories: Resources | Tags: Commentary, Freelancing, organise | 2 Comments »