Comments on: Your Customers Are Closer Than You Think

By: John

John — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 04:29:03 +0000

Lol “bidding sites”. People from India who bid $50 for something that should cost $500. Waste of time in my opinion.

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 30 May 2011 14:15:25 +0000

In my experience, with “bidding” sites, a Creative provider like myself, is forced into putting in lower prices than I had budgeted for. As someone who provides Intellectual Creative Capital production (just getting the weekend cobwebs out of my mind), I worked long and hard on putting a “price list” together for potential clients.

Creativity vs Living Expenses as a freelancer is a very fine line to be walking….

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Online Outsourcing — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:26:25 +0000

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By: Jared Walker

Jared Walker — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:16:34 +0000

I like #8: Use your peers. A lot of my better web design jobs have come from peers that don’t like design as much as development, or who just have too much work. I think finding those kinds of people to get work from is the hardest thing. But just getting your name out there can help. I’ve had success just contacting people to let them know that I could use some more work and to keep me in mind when they need help.

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By: Andrew Yee

Andrew Yee — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:25:06 +0000

Sean, I know what you mean when you mention bidding on jobs and how its not that easy with people bidding extremely low and the buyer saying they have a budget of $10 to build a web site.

Its tricky but no impossible. :)

Good luck

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Matt’s Musings » Personal Tips From And For The Self Employed — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:16:58 +0000

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By: Melek

Melek — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:35:38 +0000

Figure out who you think you would get a lot of work from and start networking with those types of people. For instance, I’m a designer. Marketers and ad agencies always need designers. So, I join networking groups that contain those types of people. OR, I get on Twitter and find (search for) marketers and follow them in hopes that they’ll follow me.

And don’t forget, you also need to form relationships with people. Just bc you give someone your biz card doesn’t mean they’re automatically going to start calling you with work. They need to know who you are, that you’re good at what you do, that you’re there to help. After I started networking with one specific group, it took me about 6 months before I got my first gig from that group….it takes a while to get your name out there and remembered. But, once I got that first one, I got another and another, and now, they’re one of my biggest source of work and referrals.