As a second year graphic design student myself and an active freelancer, I want to share some tips on how to get paid freelance work while you are still a graphic design student.
For most 1st, 2nd or 3rd year students, finding a part time or even casual job in the design industry is quite frustrating [...]
If you’re anything like me, you’ve been procrastinating on coming up with a great elevator pitch. Squeezing a tempting description of how you can help people through your products and services into just a few words is challenging at best.
Your elevator pitch is your 30-second marketing strategy. You need it to tell people on the [...]
No matter how small, your business should receive the same attention and treatment a large business would. The main objective of starting any business is usually to grow effectively and eventually step into a wider (and often more demanding) market. Whether you run a small business and have employees or you do it on the [...]
Have you ever lost a prospective client before?
If you answered “yes”, then there’s a good chance you’ve experienced the feeling of a lost opportunity. Ignoring the fact that it may be a blessing in disguise sometimes, you don’t want to be in the habit of missing out on potential business.
What if I was to [...]
A reader of FreelanceFolder who shall remain unnamed (let’s call him Bob for the purpose of this post) sent me an e-mail a couple of days ago, seeking advice. Bob is a writer with a newspaper background.
Here’s what he wrote:
I am a corporate communications professional seriously considering the freelance world, and the only thing [...]
While most people are winding down for the holidays, you should be making December an action-packed month to build your business so that you hit the ground running in 2008. Here are 5 great tips that will put you ahead of the competition on January 1 - and beyond.
Tip #1 - Plan Out Your Yearly [...]
Four Steps for One Great Writing Technique
One writing technique spans all forms of writing, though, from persuasive copy that sells to advertisements that incite to stories that entertain. It’s storytelling, and it’s a technique that works.
If They Come, You Will Build It
I thought I would give some useful information to any up-and-coming web designers that might be having some trouble finding business and reeling it in.
Web Services I Can’t Live Without As A Web Designer
As web designers and internet enthusiasts we tend to use web applications to safely work without the worry of loosing data due to hardware failure.
SEO Tools: Six Firefox 3 SEO Extensions
In this post, we’ll look at six useful SEO add-ons for Firefox 3. In no particular order, here are my favorite Firefox extensions for SEO and internet marketing.
Logo Inspiration For Your Design Blog
If you are planning to open a new blog or change the logo of the existing one, you can have some inspiration from this article.
What You're Missing If You Don't Challenge Your Clients
Clients are very quick to challenge designers on their choices, however the doing the opposite is often met with tension. Because of this tension, some designers eventually give up and let the client dictate the work.
How to Read
Who needs to learn how to read? After all, we all learned how to read fairly early in life, usually in elementary school, right? But do you know how to really read? More importantly, are you really reading?
9 Easy Usability Improvements for Blogs
One of our primary goals as designers is to constantly improve the usability of our websites and blogs. Content, while very important, doesn’t help readers if they can’t easily get to it.
