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Five Freelance Branding Tips You Can Use Right Now

Posted November 25, 2009 in How-To, Marketing 30 Rockin' Comments »

Can you control what others think of your freelancing business? Do you know how to motivate potential buyers? Have you built customer loyalty?

While these tasks may seem daunting or even impossible, by properly branding your freelance business you can accomplish all of the objectives listed above and more. Good branding effectively communicates what your business is about, motivates buyers, and builds customer loyalty.

In this post, we will introduce you to the concept of branding. We will also identify five quick methods that you can apply right away to improve your brand. Finally, we’ll share some thoughts about branding that you might not have realized before.

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Know Your Clients: How To Build Loyalty With Customer Surveys

Posted November 20, 2009 in Managing Clients, Marketing 28 Rockin' Comments »

Do you know what do your clients think about you?

Many clients won’t even tell you if they are unhappy, instead they’ll simply stop using your services. You may never find out that anything was wrong.

Loyal customers are important to your success as a freelancer. Even if a particular client no longer needs your services, you want him or her to to speak favorably about your business.

One way to keep your clients loyal is to keep them happy — but how do you find out whether your clients are happy? The only real way to find out what a customer is thinking is to ask. That’s why customer surveys can be so important.

In this post we’ll show you how customer surveys can help build loyalty, and we’ll offer a sample.

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Four Guaranteed Ways To Keep Freelance Work Coming

Posted November 9, 2009 in Inspiration, Marketing 51 Rockin' Comments »

If you want to succeed as a freelancer, you must get your name out there.

You can be the best in what you do but if no one knows about you, your freelancing career is as good as dead (sorry to be so harsh, but it’s true). While many freelancers are obsessed with being web celebrities, there are ways to stay under the radar and still have a successful freelance business.

In this post, we share four methods that I can guarantee will yield results if you follow them and put them into action. I have also shared my personal story in order to give you an idea of why these four ways are key to becoming a successful freelancer or to creating any successful business.

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Five Ways To Find Revenue Sharing Opportunities

Posted November 6, 2009 in Business, Marketing 13 Rockin' Comments »

A few weeks ago, we posted an article about how to maximize freelance income. In that post, I got an excellent question from one of our FreelanceFolder readers in the comments — they wanted to learn more about earning income through revenue sharing.

You may be asking yourself the same question.

In this post, we’ll explain all about revenue sharing and show you five methods that you can use to find and initiate revenue sharing opportunities. We’ll also help you recognize and avoid some possible revenue sharing traps.

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3 Fail-Proof Rules for Creating a Viral Post

Posted November 4, 2009 in How-To, Marketing 23 Rockin' Comments »

If you want to be successful on the web, you need an audience. This is true whether you are a designer, writer, developer or a freelancer in any other field. Without an audience, success is hard to come by.

Most freelancers maintain a blog that they use for promotional purposes. A writer writes articles consistently to showcase his/her writing skills, a designer showcases his designs, and so on and so forth.

In this article, we will explore three practical ways that you can create content and titles that are bound to take off. If you can make your blog more popular, more freelance work is right around the corner. Let’s begin.

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Are You Missing the Job Opportunities on Social Media?

Posted October 28, 2009 in Marketing, Social Media 22 Rockin' Comments »

If you’re not active on social media, then you could be missing out on the job opportunities that can be found there.

Today’s freelancers aren’t just telemarketers or multi-level marketers. Web 2.0 and social media have created many new freelancing job opportunities. Some of the jobs people enjoy doing from the comfort of their home include: blogging, writing, creating graphic art, designing web sites, and consulting.

Although many of you already understand the concept of freelance work and know how to get clients through social media, some of you may be missing out on the opportunity to use social media to build your freelance business.

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5 Steps to Winning Any Client Project

Posted October 26, 2009 in Business, Marketing 22 Rockin' Comments »

The ability to win new client projects is an essential skill to any freelancer. It’s something we freelancers practice from the day we get started, and it’s usually a skill that builds over time.

Aside from just practice, there are actually a lot of things you can do to become better at winning new client projects. Winning projects is not a confusing process, and it can actually be broken down very methodically.

In this article we’ve done just that, and divided the project-winning process into five steps. Read on for an explanation of each step, and a few tips for what you need to do to win at each stage of the game.

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How To Maximize Your Freelance Income

Posted October 20, 2009 in Business, Marketing 41 Rockin' Comments »

Freelancing income often seems as though it is a limited commodity. It seems limited by time, limited by ability, and limited by the number of opportunities available. Many freelancers behave as though there is a specific number of freelancing jobs out there, and that once those jobs are gone there are no more jobs to go around.

That’s not necessarily how it works, though. First, there are new freelancing opportunities daily. Second, it’s possible to influence your freelancing income by making your own income opportunities.

In this post we’ll teach you how to maximize your income by both finding and winning opportunities that are already out there, and then by creating your own new income opportunities.

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Get More Subscribers With An Email Subscription Box

Posted October 19, 2009 in How-To, Marketing 31 Rockin' Comments »

Many of us freelancers run blogs, and with good reason. Creating a blog is one of the best ways to prove your expertise, build a strong following, and get more clients. Making it easy for your readers to subscribe is a key factor in building this following and growing your blog, and it is a fact — not all of your readers know how to use RSS.

So are you missing out on potential subscribers without an email subscription box? Most definitely so.

If you are unsure what I mean by ‘email subscription box’, see the “Enter your email” field to the right? This allows users to enter their email and subscribe to your blog from every page of your website. They don’t have to click through to another page to subscribe, making it much easier for readers to subscribe.

You will find my subscribe box prominently on the top right of my site Just Creative Design (see screenshot above) and at the top of many other blogs. In this article, I will guide you through how to get an email subscription box for your own blog.

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