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Free Essential Books – When you Register for MYOB Today If you register for Mind Your Own Business (October 12-14th in NYC) by Wednesday, September 15th, you will receive 6 books essential to any design studio’s library. That’s a $216 value—yours FREE with your registration! Find out more here &… |
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What do you think about oDesk: cool, or controversial? Have you head of oDesk? It is a platform for an online workforce created by computer engineer Odysseas Tsatalos. But it's a bit controversial. Read the excerpt below from Paul Davidson’s USA Today article, “Co-founder of oDesk helps employers monitor… |
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In the LA area? Say “bye-bye” to deer-in-the-headlights. The talented and inspirational Dyana Valentine is teaching a FREE workshop this Sunday, Sept. 12th, in Los Angeles, to help get you Pitch Perfect. Here are the details: What's your response when someone asks what you do? If you immediately get … |
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Business Advice and Inspiration for the Creatively Self-Employed Is that what you need? I hope so, because that’s the new, improved tagline for the new, improved Creative Freelancer Blog, which we are launching next week. That’s not all that’s new. We have a new platform (WordPress), a new… |
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Can your email address hurt you? When someone hands you a business card at a networking event, can your email address affect someone’s first impression of you? Can it hinder or help you? Emily Brackett, from Visible Logic, is looking for insight into this topic. Take… |
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Do you have phone “meeting days”? Ever plan to work on a project at a certain time, but then a client urgently needs to speak with you, pushing that project to the wayside? For some creatives, it seems the more they plan, the more their plans… |
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Are you looking at the bigger picture? If you’re self-employed, you know how the daily tasks can pile up and overwhelm the bigger picture -- if you let them. But to work “on” your business, instead of just “in” your business, you have to make sure to… |
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Can You Speak Finance Lingo? Galia Gichon from Down to Earth Finance says, “It's hard to get ahead financially when you can't even speak the lingo. We often get stuck in not understanding key terms and are not able to move towards seeing financial goals… |
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Guess who’ll be at CFC 2011? We are thrilled to announce that CFC 2011 (June 23-24 in Chicago) will be graced by Joseph D'Agnese and Denise Kiernan, authors of "The money book for freelancers, part-timers and the self-employed: the only personal finance system for people with… |
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Do You ROTH? Galia Gichon, speaker at this past CFC in Denver, and owner of Down to Earth Finance, is the voice of reason for investment newbies and veterans alike. She just put out an extremely helpful newsletter about the benefits of a… |
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Do you know how long it takes a prospect to become a client? You’ve got a prospect in your pipeline. How long will it take for that prospect to become a client? Any idea? If not, you need this tool. On Freelance Switch, Jason Finnerty has shared a great, easily adaptable tool, for… |
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Twitter: waste of time, or valuable tool? Do you get jobs from Twitter, or do you find it to be a waste of time?On Freelance Folder, Laura Spencer’s article, How to Really Use Twitter to Find More Freelance Work, gives some handy tips to make and nurture… |
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10 tips for a better e-newsletter E-mail marketing is like Chinese water torture, but less painful. It works drip by drip, message by message, reaching your most qualified prospects and showing them what you can do for them. The goal? Staying on their radar so that… |
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Have you ever gotten stiffed on an invoice? If you’re a member of the Creative Freelancer Conference LinkedIn Group, you know that Gerry Suchy from gmsdesigns is always sharing valuable resources for creatives. Here’s one of them: a blog post by Phil Matthews, called, “Essential Tips to Ensure… |
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Hate reading? Learn to love it. Most people I know wish they had more time to read. But a few people I know – make time to read. Luke Mysse, who presented “Who’s the Boss” at CFC 2010 in Denver, really makes reading a priority in… |
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How does your broad range of talent become narrow? You hear me say it all the time: specialize. However, I shared a post recently where Laura Foley gave a lengthy list of what she does for her clients. And as you can see, she does a lot of different… |
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Which events have molded you? On the playground in elementary school, I hawked candy wax lips I had bought from Don, the ice-cream man, and sold them (at a mark-up, of course) to my fashion-hungry teeny-bopper friends. When I look back at things like this,… |
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Networking for singles in NYC There are few things I enjoy more than using time efficiently. That’s why I’ll be at the Freelancers Union first-ever singles event, coming up on August 18th. What a productive use of one’s evening -- to be networking and cruising… |
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Masquerading as a “creative freelancer”? Each year at the Creative Freelancer Conference, I meet a few people who aren’t really “creative freelancers.” They’re actually owners of small firms who are looking for help on the business side and for the past couple of years, there… |
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