More from one of my favorite blogging freelancers, Neil Renicker, of Renicker Studio, based in Tipp City, Ohio, on the topic of productivity! When you’re driving in the dark, in the pouring rain, and traffic in the other lane is…

Freelance marketing consultant and lecturer in the Czech Republic, Magdalena (Madla) Cevelova, how she markets to Czech small business owners. Continue reading →…

Tax tips for creative pros from RockstarCPA PLUS their new app, the Tax Tracker, to help you track your expenses Continue reading →…

If your proposals aren't getting you the jobs, check out Marketing Mentor's Proposal Bundle for Designers: 25 Resources for Project-Winning Proposals, including 11 actual sample proposals. Continue reading →…

When it comes to taxes, are you deducting everything you can? Journalist and copywriter, Bryn Mooth, wasn't, but here's what she's doing from now on. Continue reading →…

Allison Manley, of Chicago-based firm, Rogue Element, goes beyond the obvious suggestions for making first impressions to offer a few that are specific to creative professionals. Continue reading →…

If you don't already have an online marketing plan in place -- one to use strictly online marketing tools to find clients anywhere -- I hope you'll consider joining my new online course, Developing a Successful Online Marketing Plan. The…

Here's an Advanced Online Marketing Plan for those who have a few tools under your belt and are looking for clients around the country (or the world!). Continue reading →…

Here are the 3 tools recommended in the Beginner Online Marketing Plan, which is also what you'll learn in the new online marketing course through HOW U. Continue reading →…

In last week's peptalk/webinar, I suggested that creative professionals should spend 1 hour per day interacting with prospects. Here's how you can spend that hour. Continue reading →…

In case you missed Ilise Benun's marketing pep talk, "The Only Marketing Tools You Need for 2012," here are the links for the video and the pdf of the PPT. Continue reading →…

PRINT'S 2012 REGIONAL DESIGN ANNUAL - America’s National Design Competition is now accepting entries. Deadine is February 1, 2012. Continue reading →…

Sign up for my hour-long free webcast to find out the simple “to dos” that will keep your pipeline full and your Marketing Machine humming all year long and get a kick in the butt! Continue reading →…

Social media makes you seem to be all over the place and LinkedIn apps are especially good for creative professionals and their marketing. Continue reading →…

In my free webcast this Thursday (Jan 12 at 3 PM ET but you'll get the recording if you can't make it live), I'll be giving my annual marketing "pep talk" and focusing especially on how creative professionals can use…

What is your client's perspective on crowdsourcing? Have they heard the word? Do they know what it means? Have they tried it and liked it? Have they tried it and run away screaming? Share your stories for an upcoming HOW…

Find out which marketing tools will get you the best clients and most lucrative projects for 2012 in a free webcast, "The Only Marketing Tools You Need for 2012" on January 12, 2012 (3 PM Eastern). Continue reading →…

It's Marketing Plan Week here on the Creative Freelancer Blog and today we have a post -- written and beautifully illustrated by creative freelancer, Neil Renicker -- about the single most important key to marketing your freelance services. He reveals …

Today is the best day to start your marketing for 2012 and we've got the 3 tools you need to make it work (this time)... Continue reading →…