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1. Learn to persevere.
2. Start making contacts with suppliers:
a) Printers in your area get them to give you a meeting find out what they do and get a contact there
b) Small agencies in your area that may be able to push work your way when they are too busy
c) Anyone else that may be necessary down the road such as back-end developers for web projects and the like3. Always get money and an inked contracted as soon as possible from new clients. That will easily seperate the time wasters from the serious ones.
4. Always charge something for what you do no matter what, especially clients who say it'll be good for your portfolio.
5. Be firm it is better to state what you want/deserve and not get it then to get screwed.
6. Friends will inevitably have projects for you, accept them based on your best judgement but treat it as any other business and make sure to charge.
7. Realise that a large part of your time will now be taken up by business adminstration, responding to requests, putting out fires, and chasing invoices.
8. Know that you will inevitably get screwed over at some point and learn to move on.
9. The more boring the work, the better the pay. Inevitably 80 percent of what you do will be crap work initially. With luck and experience that ratio will change.
10. Know that you will make mistakes, try learn from them.
11. Spend as little as possible on equipment until it becomes absolutely necessary to have it and then look for ways to make it pay for itself.
Good luck.