#1 Rule in Freelancing!
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- moldero
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- moldero0
Mine is NEVER share who your clients are unless your 100% sure you will never work for them again. Not even on your portfolio.
- Secrets?newuser
- Why?Frosty_spl
- interesting. say moar!ohhhhhsnap
- Im turning a buddy onto freelancing for audio, I told him other freelancers were client snatching whoresmoldero
- I had clients tell me "all of a sudden, people are sending me their resumes, without an ad out"moldero
- I put 2 and 2 together then asked "can I see their work?" they turned out to be colleagues from FBmoldero
- I was like "mutha fuckas!"moldero
- Maybe its just a Mexico designer thing, hard up mother fuckers.moldero
- damn... that actually makes sense.ohhhhhsnap
- newuser0
Don't work for idiots.
- pressplay0
don’t work for friends or family
- utopian0
1. Get all of the money up front.
2. Don't blow all of your money in strip clubs.
3. And for the love of Allah, don't tell anyone that you know this guy!
- ohhhhhsnap0
make sure your kill fee clause is motherfucking tight.
- bainbridge0
Don't get over your head when you don't care about the client's business.
- Al_dizzle0
Get that contract bulletproof and get that shit signed first.
- chossy0
Always do good work, you are only ever as good as your last job so make sure you produced something good.
- omg0
Rule #1
You don't work for them, they work for you.
- MrT0
Don't work every waking hour just because you think there's nothing coming up. That shit applies on a salary too. Have a life outside it.
- doesnotexist0
Weekends are not for working.
- beeeeeeeeep. wrong answer.robotron3k
- < no it's notMrT
- <it is thoughAl_dizzle
- Its not. A sizable pair and time management say so.cannonball1978
- I prefer giving myself weekdays off. It's way faster to run errands on a wednesday than on a saturday.zarkonite
- dMullins0
Your contract should be better than the work you do.
- robotron3k0
incorporate, then do your taxes right.
- Unlike Wall Street, if you don't pay Uncle Sam your $500- in taxes you will go to jail!utopian
- falsedoesnotexist
- no true!utopian
- nocomply0
It's better to not do the work and not get paid, than to do the work and not get paid.
- doesnotexist0
contracts are tricky, imo. can push people away and make it overly complicated. but having one is important and knowing when to use it is also important.
- antimotion0
Never talk about freelancing:
- meffid0
Learn how to say no. In all respects.
- MHDC0
- identity0
Build relationships.
Be as interested, or more, about growing your client's bottom line.
Build value (profit, intellectual, leadership)
They know THEIR business better than you - listen to them.
Sometimes making the logo bigger, while argued against, is what's going to let them sleep at night. Build the work beyond a single assignment and you'll gain their trust to do it right the first time in the future.
Be empathetic.
Have a larger goal (freelance is great, running your own small shop is better).
Live beyond the critique, last minute changes and money haggling.
- Spot on. Apart from the bit about the Small Shop. This doesn't always suit everyone.breadlegz
- breadlegz0
LEARN TO SELL!!!!
I know you love your creativity, your design skillz and your Photoshop mastery... but 99% of clients want results.
If you want to make decent money and survive, don't position yourself as "just another designer".