Interviews with Freelancers
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- breadlegz
I've been spending the last few months finding some decent freelancers (mostly designers) and asking them questions.
Here's what came out ... http://www.freelanceunleashed.co…
- arthur0
I struggle with the term "freelancer." It sounds wimpy and unassertive. "Self-employed" sounds more motivated, self-assured and professional.
People have stated the differences between the two in the past, but they seem nearly identical. But what do I know.
- Haha. At my agency, freelancers always seem to be called 'external resources'. Fucking hell.Continuity
- I prefer contractor. Sounds more like a badass hitman or something, but not really.IRNlun6
- breadlegz0
arthur - I kind of get what you mean. But I use the term freelancer because we all kind of know what it means.
- nocomply0
Good stuff. Nicely done. Going to come back and check it out in more detail.
- vaxorcist0
I love the content,... the writing is real...
the design looks a bit too generic... I feel the need for more "real personality" or "something organic" or even some sort of tagline like "real freelancers talk to you about what you really want to know"
- Agreed. I'm working on that, but I wanted to get the content out quick.breadlegz
- vaxorcist0
my initial fear when seeing designs like this is that it might be an auto-generated RSS feed site for SEO.... I read more and know it isn't, but I had a millisecond of almost reflexively hitting the back button....
- I'm really trying to create a valuable resource here. Thanks for the feedback.breadlegz
- pr20
You need better heading - NOTHING in "Interview: Jeff Finley" entices me to click and read more.
- stoplying0
Just curious, how did you conduct the interviews? Through email? Face to face?
- breadlegz0
@stoplying - the interviews were created via email after a chat. There's also some podcast interviews on there which were done via skype.
I'd like to do some higher quality face to face video stuff when it grows.
- even some skype-screengrabs would be cool! some thing to get a feeling for WHO this is....vaxorcist
- canoe0
where's your contact info on the site - I have some good content for you
- LOKi0
it would be nice to have a bit of a description of who these people are, links to their studios, etc. before having to go through the content.
- mtgentry0
cool idea man.
- breadlegz0
LOKi - the contact details are at the base of the blog post, do you think they'd be better at the top?
- breadlegz0
@canoe - here's the contact page mate: http://www.freelanceunleashed.co…
- sublocked0
nice 1 dude
- breadlegz0
@sublocked - thanks for the interview http://www.freelanceunleashed.co…
Anyone else wanna take part? I want to make this a really useful resource.
- thumb_screws0
Like it breadlegz. Would be nice to have an intro on the participants at the start of the interview, just a paragraph description. Good work.
- breadlegz0
Updated. Lots more freelancers interviewed: