Freelancing

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• ‘I would be delighted to spend my free time creating logos and pie charts for you based on further vague promises of future possible payment.’

  
  ANIMAL — Authority: 706
  Any creative who has ever freelanced knows all too well how frustrating and commonplace it is to do work for someone who takes forever to pay you for your work, then turns around and asks you to do more work while you’re still waiting to be paid for the work you did months prior. Well, this one designer isn’t ...
  4 hours ago

• Reestablish Contact with Your Long Lost Clients

  
  WebWorkerDaily — Authority: 682
  We all have stories of that great project we worked on once, or that fabulous client with whom we established the world’s best working relationship. These experiences make inspiring stories that spur us onwards and upwards, to new projects, and new adventures. But this week, I began to wonder: what had happened to ...
  6 hours ago

• Why Your Worst Clients Should Still Get Your Best Service

  
  FreelanceFolder — Authority: 559
  Recently I have been involved in a few different discussions with other freelance designers in which I have noticed an unsettling trend: at some point in the conversation the topic turns to client horror stories. It usually starts out with some type of question about how the others would handle a particular situation ...
  6 hours ago

• Online Freelancing: Your Tell All Guide To Selling Your Skills On The Internet (Kindle Edition)

  
  Quick Penmanship — Authority: 484
  This is a special report designed to provide you with a simplified approach to freelancing on the Web and to selling our own capabilities online.You can create an [...]
  9 hours ago

• When You Need to Subcontract

  
  FreelanceSwitch — Authority: 549
  Subcontracting can be useful for a freelancer: maybe a client wants a complete website and expects you to handle everything from design to content. If you’re primarily a web designer, you can subcontract the parts of the project dealing with content to a writer. You can wind up with some extra income from the ...
  11 hours ago

• Cognitive Connection November 27

  
  a.k.a writer — Authority: 116
  Since it’s bound to be a busy weekend for most people—whether spending time with friends and family or racing the clock to meet a deadline—I’m keep this week’s reading list short. In addition to three must-read posts, I’m noting three outstanding resources for writers. Have a great weekend! Copyblogger ...
  15 hours ago

• Get Good Help Through Outsourcing

  
  Bizcovering — Authority: 129
  Image via CrunchBase Nowadays, businesses need help both prior to and during the upcoming holidays. Is there an economical way to pick up some extra help without stretching the budget to the breaking point? Yes, indeed. There are several freelance marketing sites out there where you can post a project and have ...
  1 day ago

• Work Productively From Home

  
  LeVoltz - iPhone Games, Engineering Projects, Wordpress Themes — Authority: 114
  A lot of people dream to work at home. One is always more comfortable at home as the environment isn’t as tense as it is in the office. At home you can be more carefree as there are no rules and regulations to adhere to but yours. You can eat whenever you want or listen to music however loud it is while you are ...
  1 day ago

• City Paper: Chris Bartlett, Gay History Wiki and preserving a community

  
  Christopher Wink — Authority: 119
  Today — yes on Thanksgiving — I’m happy to say I have the cover story on this week’s Philadelphia City Paper, the popular alternative newsweekly, profiling Chris Bartlett and his push to chronicle the lives of 4,600 gay men he says died in Philadelphia after being diagnosed with HIV/AIDS.Chris Bartlett sits ...
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• A freelancer’s thanksgiving: 10 things I’m grateful for this year

  
  WordCount — Authority: 121
  As I step away from the keyboard to spend the next four days on feasting and football, family and friends, I’ve been thinking about how much I have to be grateful for. It’s true 2009 will go down as one of the most godawful years the modern media business has ever seen. Even so, for me it could have been a lot ...
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• Make Things Happen – Undress For Success

  
  Freelancing and Outsourcing Tips, Commentary, Analysis, and News from oDesk — Authority: 469
  Someone said there are three kinds of people: people who make thinks happen, people who watch things happen, and people who wonder what the heck is going on. You wouldn’t be reading this if you weren’t one of the former; oDesk folks are the kind of people that makes things happen. That being the case, you know ...
  2 days ago

• Dealing With the Avalanches In Life and Business

  
  WebWorkerDaily — Authority: 682
  When did Noah build the ark, Gladys? Before the rain. Before the rain. - Nathan Muir, Spy Game In recent months, I’ve become acutely aware of how life and business can easily conflict with each other. It seems that the work involved in creating a successful business is never done, and if there’s an avalanche to ...
  2 days ago

• Elance Not Even Using Elance

  
  All Freelance Writing — Authority: 472
  As you all may or may not know, I post jobs here weekly. But I’m more than just a human version of Monster.com–I’ve got dreams and aspirations. I’ve got a sense of humor too. And I do a biweekly column in which I talk about humorous aspects of blogging, freelancing, and all that. Yesterday, my dual capacity ...
  2 days ago

• Could You Raise Your Rates?

  
  Stepcase Lifehack — Authority: 581
  Let’s get real: when you work on an hourly basis, there are two ways to increase income: raise your rates or increase the number of working hours. I’m assuming you don’t really want to spend more time working, so let’s talk about something that a lot of people don’t like talking about: raising your rates. ...
  2 days ago

• Managing your time as a freelancer

  
  Thoughts On Translation — Authority: 114
  Time management is always an important issue for freelancers, and especially so at this time of year. It always seems that November and December are a triple whammy of the winter holidays, clients realizing that they need to squeeze in the last few projects of the year, and trying to finish up all of our own goals ...
  2 days ago

• Freelancing and Unemployment insurance: Yipe!

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 656
  After being laid off, do I lose unemployment benefits if I try to support myself and my family by freelancing first? First off, I am a software developer. I just received word from my boss that I was being laid off. Evidently there is just not enough work to keep me paid. So once I found out I was being laid off I ...
  3 days ago

• Work From Home Tuesday: Holiday Freelancing

  
  Freelancing and Outsourcing Tips, Commentary, Analysis, and News from oDesk — Authority: 469
  With the holiday season upon us, it’s time to consider how you are going to stay on top of work while traveling to visit family and friends for home-cooked feasts and togetherness. oDesk recently asked one of our world-traveling providers, Jacqui Pittenger how she stays on top of things while jet-setting, and ...
  3 days ago

• Why Writers Should Say No to Writer Mills and Yes to Free*

  
  a.k.a writer — Authority: 116
  Do I really think writers should write for free? No. As I’ve written before , writers should be paid for their time, expertise and skill. More specifically, writers should be appropriately paid for their work. Am I encouraging writers to say no to $15 for a 1,000-word article at Demand Studios (or similar mills ...
  3 days ago

• Ben Fellows Design … Illustration

  
  Best Online Earning Ideas — Authority: 171
  Hailing from Leeds, in the UK, Ben Fellows has a very imaginative talent and specialises in major Art Direction, Graphic Design and New Media skills.
  4 days ago

• Consolidated Distractions – Wasting Time Online

  
  Freelancing and Outsourcing Tips, Commentary, Analysis, and News from oDesk — Authority: 469
  Remote freelancers have one distinct disadvantage when it comes to productivity. Distractions are everywhere! Working from home, there can be inevitable distractions – like your kids, the telephone, the pile of laundry, and pretty much anything else home-related. However, the lure of the most powerful distraction of ...
  4 days ago

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