There's 24 hours in a day and 7 days a week, so how can you make the most of your time? It's simple: be everywhere. If you're a freelance designer and you don't have an up to date portfolio of work on various sites, you're missing out on opportunities to gain more clients. You've got your portfolio on your own domain, but where else could you put your work up? What about Deviant Art, Dribbble, Flickr or the ...
What else can we learn from the Fresh Prince of Bel Aire? What can that guy in the funny outfits on Nick at Night teach us about life and freelancing? Apparently, a lot. Will Smith has been a source of inspiration for me from as far back as I can remember and today we're going to give you two more reasons why he's full of sound advice that as a freelancer you should be taking full advantage of. This isn't the ...
There i was, standing in front of a kickboxing bag that i had been looking for, for months. As i walked closer to it, the guy running the yard sale walked over to me and asked if i found anything i was interested in. Of course i told him i was just looking, even though I wanted this bag really bad. Right before I bought the bag, I looked at the bag as if to appear I was really thinking it ...
If you've heard these four words before, you'll know the feeling it gives you - your throat drops into your stomach, you can't breathe and you feel like someone just sucker punched you in your face with brass knuckles. If you haven't heard these four words yet, consider yourself one of the lucky few. No matter how good of a job you do for your clients, you're almost always guaranteed to find one who spits these words out. This post is ...
Editors note: This is a guest post from Matt Krautstrunk. I'm normally not interested in guest posts, as I like the idea of running this site myself, but when Matt wrote me with his idea for the post, there was no way I could turn it down! Freelancing is a lot like dancing alone. At first it feels awkward, but after you realize that you aren’t sticking out like a sore thumb, it’s actually kind of fun. We all remember how ...
In recent history, who's been more of a marketing machine than Lady Gaga? I doubt you can pick a name out of a hat because she's been killing it with everything she's done - from her music, music videos, award show appearances, etc. So today, we're going to uncover some of the marketing tips we can learn from Lady Gaga, who just so happens to be the first female in our Marketing Tips From... series! Be memorable I doubt that there's ...
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