For many freelance professionals, the ebb and flow of projects is one of the most frustrating and nail-biting aspects of this line of work.
One day you have more work than you can handle. You’re grilling steaks and sipping top-notch California Cabernet.
The next day you’re questioning your worth as a freelance pro, wondering if anyone will [...]
Hey everyone, I’d like to welcome a new advertiser to the Freelance Folder family: Small Fuel Marketing.
This site is run by Mason Hipp and Natalie Miller. I’ve actually met (online) Mason some time ago, and I’ve been an avid reader of the Small Fuel blog since. (a blog I urge you to check out!)
Hi everyone, I would like to welcome PSDSlicing to our growing family of advertisers here on FreelanceFolder.
With a name like ‘PSD Slicing‘ there’s no guessing what they do! Simply send them your design file in PSD, AI, PDF, PNG or JPG format, $119 (%50 discount from the 2nd page) and they’ll send it back to [...]
As a freelancer it is a daunting prospect to reinvest my hard earned cash back into my business. However, it is also vital to my success. Reinvesting profits is an aggressive and intimidating form of marketing, yet it is highly effective.
I will illustrate this point using my analogy of two freelance web designers: Sally [...]
Hey folks, I’d like to welcome XHTMLit to our growing family of advertisers and partners on Freelance Folder. You’ll see the new banner in the sidebar on the right. Big thanks to Artur from XHTMLiT/InterDevil.
Basically what they do is take your design file(s), PSD, PNG, AI, etc… and they convert them into valid XHTML and [...]
Hello everyone, I’d like to welcome our new advertiser/partner, Nick Cernis of Put Things Off (welcome Nick!).
Put Things Off (PTO) is a fairly new blog that looks very promising and I’m sure many of you folks will love it. Even though there is not a lot of content (hey it’s new!), what’s on there already [...]
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Hate Writing Query Letters? Try LOIs
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