Open Thread: What Type of Freelancer Are You?
Posted October 12, 2009 in Lifestyle, Open Thread 96 Comments »
Here’s a very simple question that we haven’t asked before on FreelanceFolder: what kind of freelancer are you? Are you a designer, developer, writer, photographer, or something else entirely?
Within your specific field, do you have any specialties? Do you focus on coding Wordpress themes, writing for business blogs, or photographing weddings?
Tell us about yourself in the comments. Hopefully we can all learn a little bit more about each other, and maybe even build some useful new connections or find some work. Feel free to link to your website or social media profiles as well :-)
image by pink sherbet photography
About the author: Mason Hipp is an entrepreneur, marketing guru, and writer. He blogs about life and business at FreelanceFolder.com and is co-author of the Book The Unlimited Freelancer. Follow him on twitter @MasonHipp
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96 Comments
Claudia Alvis
October 12th, 2009 at 10:10 amI’m a English to Spanish freelance translator. I’m 100% freelancer but not 100% translator, I also edit and proofread texts, and write original material.
Selene M. Bowlby
October 12th, 2009 at 10:13 amI’m a web designer and front-end web developer, specializing in creating custom WordPress themes.
I of course also do static xhtml/css sites too, and dabble in a bit of flash, etc. but WordPress certainly has my heart. I literally learn 5-10 new tips or tricks with each new WordPress site that I develop, and am constantly amazed by just how versatile the platform is!
I’m fairly active on twitter – http://twitter.com/idesignstudios/ – and my portfolio is at http://www.idesignstudios.com/portfolio/
In my lack of spare time, I write about web design and freelancing on my own blog, and have a few posts up here on Freelance Folder, too! :) http://freelancefolder.com/author/selene-m/
Lexi Rodrigo
October 12th, 2009 at 10:32 amI’m a copywriter and online marketing consultant. I specialize in creating online copy for my clients who sell stuff online. This includes sales pages, marketing Emails, squeeze pages, affiliate materials, and even marketing videos. I also create long-term online marketing plans for Internet entrepreneurs.
You can read more about me at my professional website: http://www.AlexisRodrigo.com
If you want to connect with me on Twitter, I’m at http://www.Twitter.com/lexirodrigo
Thanks for asking!
Diar A.
October 12th, 2009 at 10:36 amI’m a freelance blogger/writer. Since most of the topics of my writing are green issues and weddings, I’m currently trying to specialize on those, though I enjoy writing on other topics as well.
I have my writing published — print and online — since 2006, but only launched my freelance writing career on January 2009. After realizing that I haven’t been too serious, I’m re-launching the business soon (the real serious one).
My writing mission is to make words enjoyed as a delicate feast :)
You can find me on:
- LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/diarwrites)
- Twitter (www.twitter.com/diar_a)
rafael armstrong
October 12th, 2009 at 10:40 amI consider myself a “jack-of-just-about-anything”, though more specifically I’m a designer focusing in print, packaging, and logo development. Oh, and as a way of keeping myself both mentally active and (hopefully) more marketable, over the last year I’ve also been teaching myself web design and development, and hope to incorporate it fully into my bag o’ tricks.
Mike Tittel
October 12th, 2009 at 10:43 amI work as a freelance commercial and editorial photographer specializing in adventure/action sports, fitness and active lifestyle images. My work can be view at http://www.miketittel.com.
You can also find me on:
Twitter: @miketittel
Facebook Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/miketittelphotography
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/miketittelphotography
Amber Weinberg
October 12th, 2009 at 10:45 amI’m a front end web developer – specifically I specialize in PSD to XHTML/CSS…the good kind. :)
Mason Hipp
October 12th, 2009 at 10:58 amKeep the comments rolling! It’s really nice to see what everyone is doing :-)
My specialty is in delivering the entire online package for companies & entrepreneurs. I help with design, development, and marketing — including seo and social media.
I also help coach other freelancers and entrepreneurs, working with everything from the technical details to overall business strategy (this is definitely one of more interesting and rewarding things that I do).
You can find me at:
http://twitter.com/MasonHipp
http://masonhipp.com
Akua Afram
October 12th, 2009 at 10:59 amI’m a music consultant – advise brands how to use music, and advise artists on marketing strategies. I also teach Music Business and a beginner DJ.
Follow me – http://www.twitter.com/AriesMusic and check out my blog – http://www.musicgirlhitsjanblues.blogspot.com
Rebecca
October 12th, 2009 at 11:15 amI’m a freelance web (front-end) and graphic design. I design both for the web and for print. I build websites using XHTML, CSS, and Wordpress. I also work on projects involving: information architecture, interface design, and usability and I’ve started doing PR work (press releases, Twittering, Facbooking, bloggin, etc.) for one of my clients and I hope to start doing that for several others.
I don’t have a particular niche, but I have a lot of clients in the assisted living industry.
My portfolio: http://www.outofsightdesigns.com/portfolio.html
Yair Mor
October 12th, 2009 at 11:24 amI’m a 3D animator and modeler. I just started freelancing, and I still keep my full time job. Since I’m pretty much a beginner, I do almost all kinds of animation, though my greatest passion is actually the more realistic and dramatic type.
You can find me here: http://card.ly/yairmor
Michael
October 12th, 2009 at 11:24 amI am a developer. In most cases i write PHP and some wired JavaScript stuff. My interests are in the field of bringing desktop software alive in a browser – so called RIA’s. But i also develop the good old way, Java EE, C / C++ and stuff like that.
I also work as PM for softwareprojects.
Just hit twitter today : http://www.twitter.com/zkye_le
Portfolio: http://www.cusox.com
BebopDesigner
October 12th, 2009 at 11:24 amWell, my real background is advertising, but I ended up doing graphic design, and now web design and soon enough photography again.
I guess that makes me a bit of a mercenary, cause I try to offer my clients more than just a website with a logo, they get really excited with the idea of throwing in marketing plans, social media, videos and stuff.
Honestly, I’m usually more excited than they are :)
Thanks for sharing guys!
Laura Cross
October 12th, 2009 at 11:38 amI am a freelance writer and editor. I specialize in ghostwriting nonfiction books for clients (how-to, self-help, business) and crafting book proposals to help entrepreneurs get a book deal before writing the book. I also teach writing classes.
Tira Heard
October 12th, 2009 at 11:43 amI am a full-time performance poet! I also own a independent publishing/writing consultant company called Prolific Ink. Also I do literary programming for children and teens.
Joanna
October 12th, 2009 at 11:45 amI am the owner of Joanna Ciolek Web Design Studio. We cater to small business owners, often creating their first websites. I specialize in clean yet appealing designs, focusing on usability and optimization. I also blog at the Design’R Blog.
Joeri Rodenburg
October 12th, 2009 at 11:46 amI work as a freelance usability designer. I give advice on how to use social media in an appropriate and strategic manner. I’ve been working for broadcasters, publishers and advertising agencies so far.
I allso teach, give trainings and presentations on publishing and marketing your products in new social online environments.
But what i prefer most is to work on my own projects like http://www.espressos.nl
You can find me on:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/joerii (dutch)
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/joeri.rodenburg (english)
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/joerirodenburg (english)
Website: http://www.linkedin.com/in/joerirodenburg (both)
Craig Scott
October 12th, 2009 at 11:52 amI am concentrating on front-end web design, but also do print design (as my main job – I’m not a full time freelancer) and logo design.
I also custom paint downhill mountainbike helmets.
Beth Robinson
October 12th, 2009 at 11:55 amI’m a b2b online copywriter focusing on using content marketing to help businesses in the chemical and manufacturing industries turn website visitors into customers. Or – I mostly write web page content, blogs, and emails.
With that said, I just started freelancing and am in the “finding my first clients” stage of the biz. So it might be more accurate to say that the above is what I want to be able to say in the future and pretty much anything even close that I can GET to is what I’m doing now.
Megan Taylor
October 12th, 2009 at 11:56 amWriting, web development, web design, wordpress, drupal, multimedia production, social media…I would love to be doing more online journalism work but the demand just isn’t there right now.
Chris Pierre
October 12th, 2009 at 11:59 amI am a Front End Developer / Web Designer which = Creative Web Developer. I specialize in XHTML/CSS , jQuery & SEO .
You can find me on:
Portfolio Web Site: http://www.chrispierre.com
Twitter : http://www.twitter.com/chrispierre
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/chrispierre
Keith Hanson
October 12th, 2009 at 11:59 amI am a freelance Ruby developer (not specifically a RAILS developer :P ) and strive to provide a ridiculous level of customer satisfaction. Most of the time, I find that only small parts of your articles cross over into my domain simply because I do things so drastically differently than most development shops. I work in an “agile” manner (though I detest the word) and charge by the hour.
The clients often come to me with little more than the equivalent of a drawing on a napkin, and I help them run with their ideas. I don’t ask for specs and most often don’t want them. If anyone here has heard of SCRUM, I work in that manner but in a much tighter iteration. Essentially I deploy my progress nearly every hour and communicate with my clients in between, so they see their product taking shape nearly immediately.
I can’t tell you how amazing this workflow has been :) The clients love it and it’s pretty exhilarating to be able to give them _exactly_ what they want, because in the end, their initial ideas change so drastically that the paper napkin barely resembles the end product :)
Anywho :) Sorry for the novel, heh heh. I would loooove to see more developer-themed posts, though :) We are out there and we are definitely listening, haha!
James Costa
October 12th, 2009 at 12:02 pmI’m the Creative Director of The Phuse, a design agency based in Toronto. While I love designing, I try to find myself in more consultation-based roles and management positions. When I’m not doing that, I design for print, identity, and web, as well as do front-end development, photography, and help companies with marketing campaigns.
We don’t have a niche – I try to scape everything over a large audience, however we have found ourselves with a lot of small businesses lately.
Andrea_R
October 12th, 2009 at 12:16 pmWe deal specifically with WordPress MU – the multi-blog version of WordPress that will eventually be rolled into core.
Most of what we do is development work, not so much on the design side. We also help people figure out what they need and how to get WPMU to do what they want.
Solomon
October 12th, 2009 at 12:45 pmI’m glad you asked me what I’m and what interests me most! Well … I’m a copywriter with some years of experience in writing ads, ad-campaigns and brochures and flyers etc etc. I recently started writing for websites too. I love the medium as it is quite dynamic with periodic updation which otherwise impossible in print.
I recently upgraded to a higher position – to Creative Direction. I now give shape to marketing strategy and guide brands to fulfillment in lieu to the trends and customer perspectives. I now take up turn key projects of total branding assignments in creative direction to the advertising campaigns.
I love learning each day… hence I quit my day job and started freelancing and curious to learn more by investing my spare time reading popular marketing and management blogs. I’m interested in public speaking on personality development and branding – how and why should a brand needs to think like human and infusing a dynamic personality and life into it.
I have a website : http://insideoutadvertising.co.in/
and have a blog too ; http://www.creativesolomon.blogspot.com
Thanks for reading folks!
Jasmin Halkic
October 12th, 2009 at 1:51 pmHello, I’m Jasmin, 22 years old professional graphic and web designer from Croatia. I practice in creating a cool websites, logos and other graphic designs.
Portfolio:http://www.livingforart.com/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/xyxjasilixyx
Hynek Palatin
October 12th, 2009 at 1:54 pmI am an English to Czech freelance translator specialized in information technology. I translate software, documentation, websites, press releases… anything computer related.
http://www.proz.com/profile/49796
http://www.linkedin.com/in/hynekpalatin
Kim
October 12th, 2009 at 1:59 pmI’m an illustrator. Don’t seem to be a lot of us lurking around freelance blogs, unless it’s those who also do graphic design and the like – and I’ll admit I’ve picked up more than my fair share of graphic and webdesign jobs as a general graphics monkey, but I’m kind of unqualified to do them and mostly end up with them in spite of myself.
Mirsal Ennaime
October 12th, 2009 at 2:08 pmI’m a software developer focused on open source technology, web scale applications and cool new stuff. I also do design, and I build horizontally scalable server infrastructures because it’s fun.
I’m specialized in writing scalable and zombie-attack-resistant apps, mainly for the web :)
Susan Johnston
October 12th, 2009 at 2:11 pmI’m a freelance writer with two specialties and a number of sub-specialties:
1) Copywriting for small businesses and nonprofits. Subspecialties include website copy, email newsletters, and catalogue copy.
2) Blogging/journalistic writing for print and web. Subspecialties here include business, lifestyle and career topics, especially for women and/or Gen Y readers.
Sean Singleton
October 12th, 2009 at 2:40 pmI am a Freelance Front End Web Developer. I design and develop user-friendly web sites and interactive design products. I am Partner and Creative Director with freelance agency *12foot Interactive where my focus is on front end development, user centered design and CSS based site development. From project to project I do everything from IA, wireframing and Wordpress development, to light backend coding.
You can find me on:
Portfolio Web Site: http://www.guaranteedfreshness.com
Agency site: http://www.12ft.com
Twitter : http://www.twitter.com/sean505
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ssingleto
Luke Jones
October 12th, 2009 at 2:45 pmI’m a freelance creative designer for both web and print, I also delve into the musky realms of search engine optimization, and this is becoming a much more prevalent thing every day.
You can check me out on Twitter, where at the moment I’m asking people for suggestions on the upcoming modifications to my site: http://twitter.com/traxor
You can also check out my website: http://www.traxor-designs.com/
Steve Webster
October 12th, 2009 at 3:22 pmI’m a freelance web designer, but also do identity and print design.
Portfolio: http://www.dcypher.co.uk
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/dcypher_
Freelancer One
October 12th, 2009 at 3:36 pmI am strictly a freelance programmer with a little bit of freelance web development mixed in. I absolutely love it. I love open source development, especially against the microsoft monopoly.
nicolas alpi
October 12th, 2009 at 3:42 pmI’m a French guy, living in England, in Bristol. I’m a Ruby / Rails freelance application developer, but also a usability and SEO consultant.
In my, precious, spare time I develop web applications around my passions of the moment, and sometimes I blog :D.
Chelsea Windlinger
October 12th, 2009 at 3:45 pmI’m a designer focusing on identity design for print and web. I love both design and writing as they are both crafts that work toward a best possible solution. In both cases, I think you can reach a bit of poetry.
Check out my design work at http://www.chel-c.com.
I also write back cover copy for comic books. You can request a sample via email.
Karen
October 12th, 2009 at 3:49 pmAnother freelance illustrator here. The bulk of my work is in casual games, specializing in 2d backgrounds and environments.
fwolf
October 12th, 2009 at 6:11 pmI’m a web developer, officially specialized in frontend development, usability and such things ;)
Currently my focus is set on building websites using WordPress as a CMS (not a blog), writing plugins for that, too, and getting better along with e-commerce systems like Prestashop or xt.Commerce.
The magic URLs would be:
https://www.xing.com/profile/Fabian_Wolf5
http://fwolf.info/ (services, contact info and all the other stuff)
http://usability-idealist.de/ (basically my portfolio; currently very beta ..)
cu, w0lf.
Melissa Wile
October 12th, 2009 at 6:35 pmI’m a web designer in training, currently I’m doing a traineeship with Canberra’s main source of I.T and what not but after it is all over I really want to take full time freelance web design head on.
I am trying my best to bring out my options to people, so that I have more to offer, at the moment I do believe that I am rather good at XHTML, CSS, Javascript and I’m slowly working on my PHP skills and my illustrator skills as well as getting much more active in freelance blogs and social media tools.
I work well with CMS’s as my work works with a few of them, I can also make wordpress theme’s.
:)
WebMistress
October 12th, 2009 at 6:42 pmI’m a front-end webdesigner, and developer
Trying to specialize in making themes for Magento and WordPress.
But I am also looking into doing custom projects in CodeIgniter.
Just starting my freelance career, and I’ve got to admit it’s scaring me a bit!
Rick Haywood
October 12th, 2009 at 6:50 pmFreelance webdeveloper (PHP), although I started as allround webdesigner/developer the design part is mainly phased out. And i focus almost entirely on development, I often work with other designers and do alot of backend stuff.
Phil Dunn
October 12th, 2009 at 7:16 pmI help technology companies generate leads and close business by translating complex subjects into clear business benefits. White papers, case studies, direct response, scripts.. text, text, text.
I’m also an author – eBay Marketing (McGraw-Hill, 2005).
http://www.qualitywriter.com
http://twitter.com/phildunn
Randy
October 12th, 2009 at 7:44 pmI’m a freelance designer. I dabble in a little bit of everything. I’m also a blogger, gamer, and a nerd. Check out my site http://www.superrandy.com
John DeLancey
October 12th, 2009 at 8:13 pmGreetings! I’m currently a full-time Air Force Officer and part-time web developer, but will (within the year) be transitioning to “civie” status and full-time consulting and development work as a freelancer, along with my father (30 years+ as a systems analyst). We both hold degrees in CS and have NO web design skill. :)
I’ve developed for about 7 years in PHP/MySQL, ASP/VB, and the .Net architecture. I’m also interested in getting into copywriting/editing and SEO work (mainly so my own projects will prosper :-D).
Cheers,
John
Evgueni
October 12th, 2009 at 8:42 pmHello.
I’m freelance front-end web designer from Russia.
Also I enjoy creating custom themes for Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, MODx and Prestashop.
Of course, I can convert a PSD mockup to XHTML/CSS ( nowadays I try HTML5/CSS3).
I have some experience in Flash/ActionScript 3, PHP and Javascript.
Web design has is most interesting work for me and I love to do the websites.
Have a nice day :-)
Steve Bastyr
October 12th, 2009 at 8:50 pmFreelance Motion & Interactive Designer – 6 years experience
Motion Graphics:
2D & 3D Animation // Broadcast Design // Interactive Mockups // Presentations
Interactive:
Website Design // Flash Animation // Banner Ads // Presentations
Branding:
Logo // ID System // Flyers // Posters // etc
http://www.MOGFX.com
Dale Watkins
October 12th, 2009 at 11:22 pmI’m a freelance web developer (in my free time that is) and mainly deal with small business solutions for their business.
I have just now gotten into Wordpress and I am definitely looking at creating some templates. Otherwise I write about web design and web standards on my blog.
http://dalewatkins.com
http://twitter.com/dalewatkinscom
Amanda Cobb
October 12th, 2009 at 11:36 pmI’m a freelance graphic and web designer, though my focus thus far has tended towards the print side of things. I am getting more into web design and programming, particularly on the Wordpress platform. I also do a bit of freelance article writing. I work from Austin, Texas and have been doing the freelance thing for 3 years now – woohoo! :)
Twitter: @acobbdesign
Website: http://www.amandajcobb.com
Luke Farrugia
October 13th, 2009 at 12:51 amI am a Freelance web designer who would like to get more into print/graphic design, but as a freelancer i cannot pick and choose at this point, web work is what I get, web work is what I do, (typically XHTML/CSS/SilverStripe)
http://www.gdstudios.com.au/
I also Blog but i do it for more personal therapeutic purposes
http://glitch7.wordpress.com/
and of course the ubiquitous Twitter
http://twitter.com/lukef
Ignas
October 13th, 2009 at 1:55 amI’m full-time experienced freelance PHP web developer from Lithuania. Also dealing with jQuery, CSS, HTML, AJAX.
Helping others with original ideas and simple web solutions. Also active on blogs, twitter, facebook.
My twitter: http://twitter.com/Neomanas
My personal website: http://butenas.com (launching soon, but now there you can find my contacts).
Randall G. Leighton
October 13th, 2009 at 2:37 amI’m a freelance web developer and recently started my own business. I’m always looking to meet other talented freelances whose skills complement my own. Social networking has proven to be invaluable in this regard. I’ve met some incredible people just by clicking an icon on their blog and firing off a message.
The experience is actually taking me in a new direction. I’m thinking the real fun I’ve be getting from my new company won’t be creating websites or applications. It’ll be creating jobs.
Nelya Plakhota
October 13th, 2009 at 5:15 amHi, I am a freelance translator from English into Ukrainian and Russian. I also edit and proofread texts, and provide back translation.
If you ever decide to have your texts translated into my working languages, don’t hesitate to contact me. I’d be more than glad to help.
Damian Herrington
October 13th, 2009 at 5:43 amI’m a freelance web designer from the UK. I love building websites using clean compliant XHTML, CSS, and Wordpress. Although I don’t really specialise in anything particular I do try and integrate Wordpress where I can as I think it is a fantastic piece of kit!
http://www.damianherrington.co.uk
http://twitter.com/iDamianH
Felix H. Cat
October 13th, 2009 at 6:06 amI’m a freelance Web Designer/Developer + Print + 3D Services.
I have to admit my heart belongs to the web and I’ve fallen in love with PHP+MySQL // jQuery+Javascript // XHTML+CSS. I do everything from simple corporate+personal homepages to full featured, database driven, CMS Integrated, Dynamic Data+Social, AJAX enabled, SEO Optimized, cross browser, web standards compliant web pages//applications//ecommerce.
I’m juuuuust starting my freelance career, building out my portfolio, generating business and making connections.
A couple of my more current designs I’m currently coding (special sneak peak)
http://public.client.robopixel.com/jeff001/
http://public.client.robopixel.com/canam001/
Portfolio: http://robopixel.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/felixhcat
Hit me up, I’d love to chat about your next project :)
James Dudley
October 13th, 2009 at 7:50 amI am a full time freelancer: web design & graphic design. I do a little of everything! Small businesses are usually my clients.
my website: http://www.jamesdudleystudios.com
my blog: http://www.biz-tips.com
twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jdstudios
Logorado
October 13th, 2009 at 8:30 amLogorado is all about logo design and corporate identity creation.
His motto is “less is more”.
My website: http://www.logorado.com/
My twitter: http://twitter.com/logorado
Claudia
October 13th, 2009 at 8:37 amContemporary Art Dealer and Conference Interpreter.
So Go Poets, Musicians and Translators!! Down with Developers!! LOL
(I’m loving this community)
Rhi Bowman
October 13th, 2009 at 8:40 amI’m a freelance journalist and (sometimes) photographer.
Dave Sherohman
October 13th, 2009 at 8:52 amI’m a freelance software developer who happens to end up mostly building custom web-based applications. I try to avoid being called a “web developer” because that term is often taken to imply visual design and/or copywriting work, both of which fall outside of my primary skillset.
Like Keith Hanson, my field and methods fall somewhat outside the scope of most articles posted here and I’d very much like to see more content for those of us who build things which aren’t directly visible to our clients. (Unlike Keith, I generally don’t even have a sketch on a napkin to start with…)
I sporadically write at http://sherohman.org about life in general and at http://code.sherohman.org about software development, but I’m a lousy blogger – I tend to be too busy writing code to bother with writing *about* code. I can also be found as @DaveSherohman on Twitter.
In addition to my own skills, I also live with a freelance translator doing English-to-Swedish and Spanish-to-Swedish work.
Marie Poulin
October 13th, 2009 at 9:49 amI am a freelance graphic designer with a focus on interactive design and strategy.
I specialize in building Textpattern (CMS) based websites, and I teach weekend workshops on how to work with textpattern. I also write for Fuel Your Coding.
I love the whole process of building a website, from wireframes and planning, to branding and logo development, to xhtml/css/jquery and textpattern.
You can find me on twitter:@mariepoulin
and my portfolio: http://www.mariepoulin.com
Isabella
October 13th, 2009 at 9:52 amI’m a Freelance Designer from Montreal, Canada. I specialize in WebDesign and Css Coding but am not shy of taking up a few projects with PrintWork. My clients are usually little to medium size companies.
I also do some Fashion photography but mostly did that while working for a retail company last year rather than freelance.
I recently took a job at Reitmans Canada as a Senior Web Designer but am still very active on the freelance side.
My website is http://www.isablah.com
My twitter is http://www.twitter.com/isablah
Nikki Selene Lamagna
October 13th, 2009 at 9:52 amHey all,
I’m the Creative Director at Autonomy, where we specialize in web design & development, copy writing, print design & layout, as well as creating custom web applications. We’ve got a great team and like to push the edge with our clients. Since our logo is a man shooting a gun (we’re all secret spy agents!), a lot of our clients expect us to be edgy.
Our website is http://autonomywebdesign.com
Guneet Narula
October 13th, 2009 at 10:03 amThis is fun! So many great people here :)
Well, I am a freelance graphic designer catering to both print and web design. I started an year ago while I was studying animation and multimedia design in college, (I still feel as if I’m a complete newbie to this field :D ).. In my free time I am either learning to paint (digitals) or understanding html css.. but then I am an avid musician too :P
portfolio – http://guneetnarula.semblance.in
twitter – http://www.twitter.com/guneetnarula
blog – http://guneetnarula.blogspot.com
Cassie Armstrong
October 13th, 2009 at 10:07 amI’m a freelance proofreader. I haven’t found my niche, yet. I’m having fun proofreading and plan to continue doing so for a long time.
You can also find me at http://www.linkedin.com/in/cassiearmstrong and http://www.twitter.com/cassiemon
Deb Howard Greenleaf
October 13th, 2009 at 10:15 amI’m a freelance, virtual bookkeeper & QuickBooks consultant specializing in solo-professionals trying to do it all! I handle invoicing, tracking down receivables, staying on top of bills and due dates, and helping small business owners learn what services/products bring them the highest margins. You can find me at:
Web: http://www.greenleafaccounting.com
Blog: http://www.greenleafaccounting.com/blog
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/dhgreenleaf
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin/com/in/debhowardgreenleaf
Rebecca Quinn
October 13th, 2009 at 10:26 amOnline Business Manager – Virtual Assistant – Business Advisor
Helping solo-entrepreneurs, service professionals & small business owners with day-to-day management, operations & admin. Most people don’t go into business to do the business stuff, but to create and work with their clients. I take care of the business end, taking clients from overwhelmed to organized and allowing them to focus on what they do best. Working virtually anywhere and occasionally on-site in Los Angeles & Southern California.
Specializing in systems, customer service, emergency preparedness & business continuity planning and, due to the times we live in, mostly working on marketing, online presence, social networking and creating buzz so clients get more business.
Website: http://rebeccaquinn.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RebeccaQuinn
(This is a brilliant idea…love meeting the techies & creatives out there…will go follow everyone on twitter!)
Tony
October 13th, 2009 at 10:28 amLibrary and Database Training–on site or online!
Lots of informational resources out there…do you have time to research them all? We can help! For the price of a hard-cover book, we can give you online training in some of the hottest library and information databases now available!
Have staff? We can help as well with custom classes and CBT via Adobe Captivate, etc.
Drop us a line…….
http://www.libraryknowledge.com
Kamal Hylton
October 13th, 2009 at 10:52 amI am a freelance Graphic Artist from Toronto, Canada.
My specialty is Graphics for Print, however I design websites as well.
Mainly I use Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign to do my work.
I’m new to the freelance folder community and hope to get to know all of you
Andrea Schulle
October 13th, 2009 at 11:04 amI am Swiss Army knife of communications, My firm, As Such Communications, is a full-service marketing communication firm, focused on communication strategy, PR, graphic and web design and event planning.
Services include:
- Creation of Communications Plans and Budgets
- Plan and Execute Integrated Marketing Campaigns
- Public Relations
- Graphic Design: all forms of identity and collateral
- Web Design and Development
- Event Planning
website: http://www.as-such.com
twitter: http://www.twitter.com/andreaschulle
linkedin: find me there too.
Rich
October 13th, 2009 at 11:23 amI am a financial writer and maintain my free financial education blog http://www.insimplelanguage.com. I am currently completing the re-write on my first financial book titled, “How to understand investments In Simple Language”. I also provide web content and re-write web pages to be more effective for company sales and marketing campaigns.
Susan
October 13th, 2009 at 11:26 amI specialize in online traffic driving and measurement for clients. Things like PPC, analytics, email marketing, etc. I also do some copywriting here and there.
Nice to see you doing so well, Mason! :) We were in touch back when I was running my old company, VoxFortis. Go Dragons!
Catherine Azzarello
October 13th, 2009 at 11:37 amHi Mason,
Thanks for asking! I’m a designer with years of print experience (identity/collateral/packaging) who is entranced by web design. My varied background allows me to work with clients to develop the bulk of their marketing needs.
I particularly enjoy designing websites from the ground up, especially the PSD to HTML/CSS process. Lately I’ve utilized CSS3 rules and font-replacement techniques as much as possible. (Gotta feed the print designer in me!) Custom-designed WordPress sites/blogs are fast-becoming my specialty.
I enjoy the variety of projects I have. When I tire of making a layout work in IE, there’s another project that requires old fashioned pencil and paper. And for every print job limited to one or two colors–there’s a web project with 16M+ colors at my disposal!
Read my blog: http://www.azzcatdesign.com/blog/
Follow me on Twitter: @azzcatdesign
Genevieve
October 13th, 2009 at 12:17 pmI’m an actress, writer and fashion designer. Arn’t we an arty lot?! shameless plug: http://genevievesibayan.wordpress.com
Deize Serrano
October 13th, 2009 at 12:47 pmHi! I’m a Luso-Brasilian Graphic Designer from PORTUGAL. Freelancer since 2001 (with some companies in the middle).
I work in corporate identity, logos, print design, packaging, web design and training.
I’m starting to improve my knowledge in programming with HTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL, as well as the WordPress platform.
My next goal is a Master degree in Marketing and Multimedia Communication.
I started my blog in May and increasingly I feel inspired to new posts.
I have a new personal project in hands of a new blog (using Wordpress) whose main theme will be the graphic design. It will be a new tool for those who are starting in this area. It’s main language should be portuguese but I want to have it’s content also in english (I’m still studying a way for that).
Here is where I can be found:
http://dsgn-news.blogspot.com
http://twitter.com/dsgnnews
http://www.linkedin.com/in/deizeserrano
http://www.facebook.com/people/Deize-Fonseca-Serrano/
Happiness for you all! :)
Melissa
October 13th, 2009 at 1:05 pmMy friends call me Mel.
I am the Creative Director of a small Canadian business known as Break Left Media. Specializing in advertising strategy, design and photography.
I’m loving this freelancing community!
Say hello or visit!
Website: http://breakleftmedia.com
Photography: http://flickr.com/melissasteep
Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter: search: Melissa Steep
Chris
October 13th, 2009 at 1:49 pmwow, the variety here is cool.
I am a freelance writer specializing mostly in blogging, ebooks, and other ways of providing content. I edit a bit as well and I have plans for mini blogs. Most of my topics are about online marketing, but I like to write about a lot of other stuff too.
profile site: http://www.whoischrisanderson.com
blog: http://www.online-marketing-vault.com
My wife is a freelance portrait photographer as well.
Julian James
October 13th, 2009 at 1:52 pmI’m a creative jack-of-all-trades… master of some.
Primarily I’m an illustrator but I’m also a graphic designer (for both web and print) and I run a creative magazine called NewSugar too. Oh, and I write a bit, teach and build the odd website.
My sites are:
http://newsugar.co.uk
http://whyisbox.com
& another project coming soon… http://vectorville.net
Simon
October 13th, 2009 at 2:08 pman expensive one
Julian
October 13th, 2009 at 5:26 pmI’m a Jack-Off-All-Trades Freelancers at the moment who’s pursuing a full-time 4 year degree. Currently, most of my work involves copywriting. I also do work that requires some knowledge of html/css/php/mySql.
In the near future (December) when I get my x-mas break, I’ll be getting into Ruby on Rails. You see, I love programming and the idea of building quality webware.
At the end of summer 2010, I will be a RoR ninja!
Aliza G
October 13th, 2009 at 5:38 pmI’m a freelance bookkkeeper as well as a part time religious school teacher and I am also doing some professional organizing as well.
Katharine
October 13th, 2009 at 7:26 pmI’m a veteran freelance copyeditor of books (fiction, nonfiction, university textbooks, medical textbooks, and allied-health textbooks) and medical journals. One of my specialties is substantive editing of medical-journal articles for ESL (English as a second language) authors. I’d love to see more articles that pertain specifically to editorial workers (copyeditors, developmental editors, proofreaders, indexers, desktop publishers, book designers, permissions editors, etc.) like me.
I’m on Twitter at https://twitter.com/KOKEdit, and my blog can be found at http://editor-mom.blogspot.com/.
Jonathan Lewis
October 14th, 2009 at 5:19 amI’m a freelance Interaction Designer based in the West Midlands (UK). Specialists in the UX field are few and far between outside of London.
Like some others in this post I’m a jack-of-all trades too designing and coding.
As a break from my PC I blog (on my laptop) at http://www.ficklefable.com
Eduardo Portillo
October 14th, 2009 at 10:53 amWell my story is very interesting becouse I’m a freelance graphic designer, but my degree is in chemistry, I hav been an apprentice in a graphic design studio for 12 years and by now I work in all the range logos, web pages, flash animation, advertising, catalogs, packages, vignetes and my strong side is interactive multimedia compact discs, you can see a little bit of my work in http://www.digitalwerkstat.com
Like some of the ones above also have another little bussiness selling chemictry lab equipment, I have to use my degree in something!!
Joanne Munro
October 14th, 2009 at 3:50 pmI’m a freelance PA (called Virtual PA’s in America) and I work for various clients who have one thing in common – they’re brilliant & creative but very disorganised and chaotic!
The work I do for them varies depending on what they do for a living, but includes reconciling end of month accounts, office management (filing, opening post, paying bills, email & diary management, call answering, etc) research, data-entry, excel spreadsheet, typing up word documents, writing copy, chasing payments and databasing- or anything else that they may need doing!
I am also fascinated by social media and offer 2 packages where I can either train and assist the client in setting up their online profile, or I can manage their online presence completely.
I love that every day is different and that what I do makes a marked difference to their business – By doing the routine yet essential admin tasks for them, I give them more free time so they can focus on moving their business forward.
http://www.munro-pa.co.uk
http://www.munro-pa.blogspot.com
@munropaservices
Nic loves languages
October 14th, 2009 at 9:54 pmI’m a German to English translator based in Auckland, NZ but working wherever the clients come from.
I’m also an ESL teacher to stop the loneliness that many freelancers deal with.
It suits me fine.
Nic at CrossLingo
Belinda
October 15th, 2009 at 7:22 amFront end web design and graphic design (and work during the day as an account manager)! Keeps me busy but its lots of fun.
Sylvain
October 15th, 2009 at 4:02 pmI’m a french freelance web developper / designer, I do small websites to big ecommerce sites, i do also web applications which I want to specialize in, I work with php/mysql and jquery.
I do print job to eat, hope I will work on web application only in few month ! ;)
Susan Greene
October 17th, 2009 at 2:26 pmI’m a freelance copywriter. I specialize in writing websites. II work directly with some of my clients and also do quite a bit of sub-contract work from ad agencies and web design firms.
Nicolas Miranda
October 19th, 2009 at 4:49 pmI am a freelance graphic designer and video editor. I pretty much get my hands on everything. cd/dvd cover artwork, posters, flyers, logos, web sites, myspace layouts, twitter backgrounds, flash galleries, clothing and some short film editing. Been in the game since 2004. I have developed and grown in so many ways since i started. I am self taught, but i did go to school and get my AA in graphic design. I believe that you can always learn something new, and I learn something new everyday from my fellow freelancers. Freelancing is the way to go, so go do it.
my site:
http://www.diverse-minds.com
my favorite sites:
http://www.freelancefolder.com (of course)
http://www.tutvid.com
wordpress.tv (especially css-tricks)
Harry - GoalsOnTrack
October 21st, 2009 at 1:11 amI am a developer and marketer.
tbmedia
October 22nd, 2009 at 2:31 pmI am a web developer, a blogger and an internet entrepreneur. You can catch me blogging at http://dailycycle.co.uk or http://online-startup.com
My portfolio site is at http://tbmedia.co.uk
My twitter is http://twitter.com/tbmedia
It’s interesting to see all the freelancing careers. Who needs corporate companies! Good luck to you all,
Peas and love
Andy
October 24th, 2009 at 1:09 amI am Top Coder of RentACoder.com
I specialize in WordPress Solutions, SEO, Plugin, Theme and Website Performance services.
Read More about me at Hecode.com
Fidel Hdz.
October 24th, 2009 at 10:00 pmI’m a Designer, web developer and illustrator. I’m from Monterrey, MX.
I like to work with other freelancers, cause I work just in one process at time to get a great results to my clients.. maybe i’ll connecting you to work together.
Twitter: @NNK_me
Website: http://www.nnk.me (in process)
Abby
October 29th, 2009 at 2:29 amVery nice write up. Easy to understand and straight to the point.
Tom
November 22nd, 2009 at 11:40 pmI’m a little late on commenting on this, but I just came across it again today.
Another jack of all trades here. My past employment history has made it rather necessary to be the everything-computers-guy. Well, maybe not entirely ‘necessary,’ but it would have been rather boring to adhere strictly to the official job descriptions and lessened my value as an employee. :)
I’m a freelance/independent [insert some IT related title here]. I generally use the old standby of Consultant, but would like to come up with something better as a title. Maybe there isn’t a better title, but if anyone has any ideas let me know.
My website is http://www.t3technet.com
My primary specialty has been computer networking – from cabling/infrastructure to administration, clients/servers, security, WiFi, etc. I also do programming and development. Mostly I work with Linux based systems and open source solutions. Like Dave Sherohman, the “web development” I do is more of the coding and back end variety. The visual and copywriting just doesn’t hold my interest enough to pursue further expertise. Additional IT skills include disaster-recovery, general data forensics, business continuity, systems analysis, printer repair and the typical PC support/repair.
Just to fully live up to the JOAT definition some other skills of mine, most of which I’ve made money doing at some point and occasionally still do on the side for some of them, are auto mechanics/repair, architecture/design, CAD/CAM, drywall hanging/finishing, commercial/residential construction, flooring, musician, sound production/mixing/recording, DJ/karaoke hosting, photography, and videography.
Marketing and Management
March 10th, 2010 at 5:42 amI am an aspirant of the freelance….I like to work from home…I am good in the typing work…so I need the job which should be done from home.I hope you will give the details for that….keep sharing.