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Advice From a Freelancer FOH (that’s Friend of HOW) Steve Gordon, Jr. has been a professional graphic designer for a decade, and he hangs out his own shingle in Omaha, NE. (The story of how Steve became a FOH is a good one; I’ll… |
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Start Linking More advice on the social media/online networking front, just in case you’re still hesitant or don’t see the value. (I was in that position just 6 months ago; now I’m a social media convert.)Kristen Fischer, the prolific freelance writer and… |
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Finding Your Niche One of the underlying ideas we’re hoping to share at this year’s Creative Freelancer Conference is, what does your business want to be when it grows up? Many creative freelancers take a common path through the course of their careers:… |
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Those reminder postcards … Remember those postcards from CFC in Chicago last August? The ones where you wrote a note to your Future Self listing your business objectives for the next 6 months? Yep, those. We mailed ‘em. If you filled one out, it’s… |
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Your portfolio on your iPhone Had an email from Steve Gibbs of Gibbs Design pointing me to a blog post he’d written about setting up his portfolio on his iPhone. It’s really quite simple and smart, and surprisingly the first time I’d seen this particular… |
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Glass half full. On one of our LinkedIn groups recently, someone commented that he simply is not choosing to participate in this recession. We know this instinctively: that we can allow ourselves to get sucked into the negativity or we can seek a… |
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Social marketing: killing time, or not? Heaven help us, but we finally bit the bullet: HOW is now on Twitter. I say ‘finally’ because it seems like everyone we know has been tweeting (twittering? twitting? twit-izing? whatever.) for months. You can find us at HOWmag, if… |
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Dealing with a sucky economy Yep, it’s official: We’re in a recession. Have been since December |
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Your online portfolio. Regardless of the kind of work you do, you’ve probably got at least a bare-minimum web presence. We’re all seeing news stories about companies using more and more freelance talent to supplement their dwindling workforce — so your website becomes… |
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Technorati Technorati Profile… |
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More companies using freelancers. You’ll be happy to hear this bit of news: a report on CNN.com today notes that companies are increasingly hiring freelancers, as business generally becomes more project-oriented, and it becomes easier and more economical to hire on a project basis… |
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The ‘gig’ economy Friend of HOW, former colleague and frequent collaborator Betsy Smith pointed me to a post on The Daily Beast (one of my must-reads) about what writer Tina Brown calls the ‘gig economy.’From the post:No one I know has a job… |
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Great CFC success story Just this week, as we’re deep in the process of planning the ’09 CFC program for San Diego, comes this terrific story from Nora Richardson, who joined us in Chicago. Here’s from Nora:I always thought I thought of myself as… |
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Like a yearbook photo. We loved this photo that Dyana Valentine posted on Facebook. (BTW, lots of CFC-ers are connected via LinkedIn and Facebook — come join us!)… |
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What downturn? Downturn? Some designers, agencies and marketers are licking their |
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Looking Ahead Peleg, Ilise and I are already at work researching prospective speakers for the 2009 Creative Freelancer Conference, identifying key topics based on your feedback from the Chicago CFC and kicking around lots of other ideas. I always feel like I’m… |
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