Expert Tips for Effective Client Management
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Choosing to go freelance is a significant decision. Yet, for those who embark on this journey, it can be immensely rewarding. No matter the type of creative freelance work you pursue, there are common challenges and benefits you'll encounter. Dealing with clients and meeting deadlines are just a few examples.
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How to Handle Your Clients like a Pro
The freelancer-to-client relationship is a tricky thing to deal with. Your ability to work with the various types of clients can make or break your fr…
8 Must-have Contract Clauses for Freelancers
Do you have a contract when you begin a freelance project? If not, then you should. Working without a contract is an invitation to be taken advantage …
20 Things to Replenish Your Idea Vault (When You Run Out Of Ideas)
This post is a reflection of my state of mind. As I am writing this, my mind has just suffered through a writer’s block, a lockdown of countless hou…
5 Tips to Getting More Design Jobs For Freelancers
There are many web design businesses and deals that are set up and shut down just as quickly because they are unable to keep the business afloat. The …
Mastering Creative Briefs: Tips for Freelancers
I had ordered a special cake for a friend’s birthday and had given the receptionist all the specifications for the cake. When I went back to pick up…
Guide to Calculating Breakeven Point for Freelancers
Learn how to calculate your business's breakeven point with our step-by-step guide. Maximize profits and minimize losses.
10 Signs You Have Gone Too Far Into Freelance Design
Freelance design is great, but nobody I know so far has remained as he or she was before after years of running a (often traumatic) freelance experien…
Getting New Clients to Pursue You
When I first began my career as a web pro, I thought that all I had to do was to create amazing websites, and then the phone would start ringing off t…
How to Harness Your Inner Creativity
"I’d love to do creative work! But how do you think of all these crazy things?" It seems that creativity is magic, a mystical process, the secrets t…
5 Ways to Keep Yourself Focused at Work
Keeping yourself focused at work can be hard sometimes. You start your day by telling yourself that you will get a good number of tasks done today. As…
5 Reasons Why You Should Try Freelancing
For me, when I started freelancing full-time, it was (somewhat) the case of following others, more than anything else. What struck me most was the eas…