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Give Your Clients Good Enough Reasons To Do Business With You Again

Posted August 4, 2007 in Business, Marketing

We all want repeated business, but sometimes it happens you deliver a project, and you never hear from that person ever again, although you know you worked hard, and your work is quality. Repeated business is critical to your success as a freelancer.

If you’re serious about making a living from your freelancing activities maybe you should try to get your customers to think of you when they want to get things done. As it’s a lot more work trying to find new clients, than keeping the ones your already have.

How can you do this?

• Be a great conversationalist
• Make yourself available to your clients
• Meet or beat your deadline
• Provide your clients with more than just the basics
• Work with people in other fields
• Expand your contact list

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The Next Generation of Job Descriptions

Posted August 3, 2007 in Business

I’m a firm believer that the web is setting some serious standards for the way business operates and the way it is going to progress in the coming years.

As I’m experiencing the management and ownership of my own business (Aspiring Indie), I can’t help but wonder about what the next generation’s work environment is going to be like.

For one thing, I don’t believe we’re going to have many high ranking employees staffing many more businesses in the coming generation. We’re going to be seeing fewer and fewer “Directors of Marketing” and “Sales Managers” and “Head of Accountings“. We won’t see as many convoluted job titles and caveats within their descriptions. We will have a team where each job description is the same:

Problem solver. [Click Here to Read More...]

Blogging Opportunity For Bling Princess

Posted July 31, 2007 in Business

Here’s a freelance work opportunity for work-at-home bloggers:

SEO Service Provider offers blogging services for commercial clients and is seeking a blogger for a long-term assignment. Pay is $100/month. Present the proper qualifications and start immediately.

The ideal candidate should

• Be female, 18-30 years old, or able to relate to this target market
• Love bling bling
• Enjoy keeping up with the latest celebrity gossip
• Be creative

You’ll be writing a character blog for a jewelry company. See the blog here. Pays monthly by PayPal. More work possible in the future if you prove right for this opportunity. [Click Here to Read More...]

Find Work, Avoid Scams, and Get Paid (on time is even better)

Posted July 31, 2007 in Business, How-To, Tools/Resources

Paisley from Why Paisley sent me an e-mail yesterday, and asked me a couple of questions regarding freelancing and working from home, and I thought it would be a good idea to answer on here, as I think it’ll be interesting and useful to you freelancers. :)

Being a freelancer and working from home is cool, and you can definitely make a (more than decent) living freelancing. Of course, you want to do business with ethical and trustworthy people. Unfortunately, sometimes you end up working for a scammer. It happens, and it’s really ok, you can learn a lot from those experiences.

Paisley, and certainly many of you reading this, who are maybe just getting started, have the same apprehensions and concerns regarding the work-at-home industry, and you wanna make sure you don’t get screwed: [Click Here to Read More...]

Get Ready for Your Next Interview

Posted July 29, 2007 in Business, Lifestyle

Sometimes getting a job can be harder than doing the actual job itself. How many times have you said, “I’d be perfect for that position” only to miss the opportunity? There are a lot of keys to getting the job you want – networking, a strong resume and cover letter, etc. The final step and the one you have the most control over is the interview. Interviewing is a skill unto itself and being good at it can be the difference between getting the money you deserve and spending your time looking for the next opportunity.

I recently had an interview for a position I was very interested in. I hadn’t interviewed in a few years and although I consider myself a strong interviewer, I was woefully out of practice. The interview was a phone interview. With a phone interview you can’t get by on charm or appearance; furthermore, you can’t read the interviewers body language and tailor your responses accordingly.

In a phone interview your answers are all that matters… period. I didn’t get the job and at the end of the day I had no one to blame but myself. The following are some tips to make sure you don’t make the same mistakes I did. [Click Here to Read More...]

A Recipe For Quitting The Day Job And Working At Home

Posted July 25, 2007 in Business, How-To

Work at home doesn’t mean what it used to. Back in the olden days (yep, even older than me) there was this thing called the cottage industry. I won’t bore you with definitions, but suffice it to say that it has nothing to do with cottage cheese – unless, of course, you be making the cottage cheese in your back yard.

The Cottage Industry

You see, the cottage industry has a long and rich history. It’s all about working at home. In the olden days (the really olden days), that meant shearing the sheep and making your coat of wool. The textile industry is one industry where people did a lot of work at home. In fact, even during the mass movement toward industrialization, there were large factories that outsourced work to people in their homes. Those home workers comprised a large part of the overall workforce and came to be called the cottage industry. [Click Here to Read More...]