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- breadlegz
Hi guys.
I've been working on a blog to help freelancers get more business. I know that many of you guys are too supercool to take advice from me, but I created a kind of video explaining a free ebook.
Some newbie freelancers have found it useful, but I wanted some feedback from you more experienced people.
http://www.freelanceformoney.com…
P.S ... i'm not trying to flog a load of crap. I am genuinely trying to create some useful resources so us freelancers can stop cutting each others throats for the same work and also educate clients as well to respect creative design...
- trooperbill0
ebooks are so 2007 dude
- breadlegz0
trooperbill -- should it be video instead?
- nosaj0
aesthetically, think about the lighting a little more.
- twokids0
when somebody says the are not trying to flog a load of crap, they are usually trying to flog a load of crap
- Frosty_spl0
I do not trust that site.
- mrghost0
i'd rather CUT THROATS
- breadlegz0
@Frosty_spl is that cos it looks a bit 'formal' ?
- exador10
hey bread...
personally, i think it's a good idea...there's a large chunk of the audience here that could probably use a few pointers about freelancing in general...hence the ever popular questions here like 'how do i this, and how do i that" etc.....
now, you're also going to get a lot of folks here that have been in the business for years, and probably don't a) need a service like this or b) want to take the piss a bit ;) but that's all good .....
kind of what this site is all about in a way...helping each other out with design related questions, and poking fun at each other....either way, i think it's a good idea, and i support ya....
- actually working on a similar book with a developer friend of mine..exador1
- breadlegz0
exador1 - cheers mate.
I never know how to talk about things like this in the QBN forum. I know there's a lot of guys that take the P and that's cool. But I reckon there's also a load of freelancers that need some solid advice and help.
- breadlegz0
@exador1 - what do you see as the biggest challenges as a freelancer
- AngrySpic0
I'd be much more interested if you named your website FreelanceForPussy.com, just sayin'.
- pillhead0
I think it's a great idea and welcome the advice, but it would be really good to have some Basic advice for people starting out as a freelancer like dealing with finance for the first time, what to I charge the client, should I pay per Hour or budget for the complete contract.
- exador10
I freelanced for a year...it was a very successful run, and I'm glad I did it...some of the things i learned and that might help others would be (and this is the short version, mind you lol)
a) learn to say NO
- in your quest for money / security / etc, you'll start saying yes to just about any project, even when you clearly don't have the time...only to realize one day that you're working 14 hours a day, 7 days a week....i did this to myself, and had to learn that saying 'no' is okb) put aside about 30%....do not touch this ....
- when the cash started rolling in from my fulltime freelancing, i was over the moon with joy....more money than i'd ever seen before was piling up..it was like a crack high....suddenly i saw visions of large flat screen tv's in every room....a new BMW in the garage and armani suits...lol
needless to say my wife cured me of these ideas incredibly quick....and insisted that i put ATLEAST 30% of all my new found wealth aside...for the tax man....
and boy, am i glad she did.....i was all for spending that shit as fast as i could make it....
at the end of the year, when it was time to ante up and pay the piper/tax man..i'm glad i played it safe...i had a good acct, and he found ways to save me a ton...but you can't avoid everything, and i did have to pay..and luckily i had the cash to do so...c) folks always go on and on about time management, and i won't bore you with much talk of that, other than to say, just because you're home, don't get into the habit of walking around in your pajamas and becoming a slob....take the time to get ready in the morning as if you were going to the office...schedule meetings with clients and get out of the house...it's the whole 'dress the part, be the part' kind of thing...if you lay around a dark living room with your laptop on and not much else, and you haven't shaved yet, and you kinda just feel lazy and not productive, you are on the fast track to just being a dude without a job....dress the part, be the part...get up, shave, dress nicely, and crank out the quality work...get outside and meet up with people....be active....
d) spend a little less time networking and such with other designers, and a bit more time getting outside your comfort zone and meeting different people....i used to spend a lot of time going to design seminars, and design this and design that, and blah blah blah...you kind of get in a echo chamber, ya dig?....but hang out with engineers, musicians, doctors, professors....you learn different ways of looking at things....it's refreshing, it's good for your brain, it's good to learn to see things in a new light...and it shakes you up a bit to learn that you don't know everything...and most important...you're NOT going to get leads and prospects in a room full of other designers lol....you WILL however find leads and prospects by this route....
there's a lot more, but i'm hungry, and im gonna go eat :)
cheers folks!
ex
- e-wo0
Signing up for the newsletter / download takes us to a 404 page.
- breadlegz0
"spend a little less time networking and such with other designers"
That's so true. It's too much of a temptation to think 'sod this i'm going to spend the next hour moaning about how the client asked me to make the logo twice as big!!'
- meffid0
• If they were any good at it, they'd be making money instead of writing a book about how good they are at it (trying to make money)
• There's a lot of competition:
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• I read how to be a rockstar freelancer – some good tips but nothing I couldn't have figured out. (I stole it, and if I thought your book was any good... I'd steal that too)
• The design is fucking awful and not suited to your product/service.
- SoulFly0
pretty cool
a wise man once said, "the best way to make money, is by teaching others how to make money"