#1 Rule in Freelancing!
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- pango0
lot of you posted my 1 rule already. so i'll just post an advice.
"stay healthy and keep your energy up."
when i'm tired as shit and brain dead. it seriously reflects it on my work.
- 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".
- 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
- MHDC0
- meffid0
Learn how to say no. In all respects.
- 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.
- nocomply0
It's better to not do the work and not get paid, than to do the work and not get paid.
- 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
- dMullins0
Your contract should be better than the work you do.
- 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
- 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.
- omg0
Rule #1
You don't work for them, they work for you.
- chossy0
Always do good work, you are only ever as good as your last job so make sure you produced something good.
- Al_dizzle0
Get that contract bulletproof and get that shit signed first.
- bainbridge0
Don't get over your head when you don't care about the client's business.
- ohhhhhsnap0
make sure your kill fee clause is motherfucking tight.
- pressplay0
don’t work for friends or family