Guerrilla Freelancing

The ups and downs of launching your first startup

Today’s post is a personal post. It’s about the trials and errors I went through to launch my first start up, Giant Themes. I hope you enjoy the post and it helps anyone who is on the verge of launching their first start up. It’s been a fun ride and definitely one that I am going to love talking about in this article. read more

10 guerrilla marketing tactics for illustrators

This is the second installment of our Guerrilla Marketing tactics series – you can view the 10 guerrilla marketing tactics for designers by clicking here.

Illustrators are some of the most talented people that I know. I’ve admired illustration work for years and I have dabbled in drawing since I was very, very young, but the quality of artwork that some of the top illustrators put out today is simply baffling. So, starting out as an illustrator, what can you do to get yourself noticed and slide into a top spot in the food chain? Today’s article is going to go over ten guerrilla marketing tactics that you as an illustrator can use. read more

Curious to know what the top 25 design blogs make from ad sales?

Any person reading this blog right now that is in the design field has probably wondered this very exact question: What do these design blogs actually make in ad revenue and is it possible for me to make money with my own design blog? Hopefully, by the end of this article you will walk away with answers to that question.

I’ve been pushing around the idea of starting my own design blog for months now and decided to do a bit of research to see what the top design blogs actually make in revenue. Since I know that the blog will be focused on ad revenue and not just pushing my web design business, I wanted to gauge what types of money could be made with the blog and how much traffic I’d have to hit in order to get to certain cash milestones. read more

How to completely back up your freelance life

As a freelancer, you enjoy the freedom of not working for a boss, not having set work hours (unless you set them yourself) and not having to give credit to anyone when things go right. The downside is that you also have to give credit to yourself when things go wrong. And things will go wrong.

I’m sure every freelancer with a year or more under their belt can tell a horror story about how they’ve lost files, contacts or other important documents because they weren’t careful enough to back things up and make sure there was a security system in place for their business – myself included. read more

Top 20 Guerrilla Freelancing articles from 2009

Last year was a great year for Guerrilla Freelancing, even though we didn’t publish hundreds of articles, the quality of the articles were outstanding. I’ve found great pride in the articles I write here and enjoy seeing so many readers find valuable information. Them more I can help others here, the better. So today I am putting together a list of my personal favorite articles from 2009.

The topics covered are of a wide variety (business, marketing, designing, networking, ect) and should be saved for a time you can sit down and read through them. They’ve given a lot of readers some valuable information and I want to bring them back to the forefront today to showcase them for the new readers here (and those of us who may have been here for a while, but have forgotten about them). read more