NEW ONLINE BOOTCAMP!
Join Ilise Benun for a two week online workshop and learn how to position your creative services to attract the right interactive clients! Learn more & see Dates!FREE DESIGN TUTORIAL
FREELANCERS SPEAK ON THEIR BEST BUSINESS PRACTICES
As a creative professional, the key to running a successful business is to learn not only from “experts” in the industry, but also to hear from your peers about how they run their businesses and solve some of the same problems you have. So please join us for a free online preview of one session at the Creative Freelancer Conference to hear just that – a “from the trenches” session featuring 4 successful creatives who’ve been there, done that. PLUS - you'll get an $50 coupon towards registration at this year's Creative Freelancer Conference just for registering!
Date: Thursday, June 6
Time: 2 p.m. ET
Cost: FREE!
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The Tools for Smart Pricing
From how to determine a client's budget, to how to control the money conversation, from how real creatives price projects and determine hourly rates, to how to handle retainers, this bundle has it all.Pricing Bundle: The Tools for Smart Pricing
Category Archives: Growing Your Business
Answers to 3 Common Questions About Public Speaking
In the latest podcast/interview in the Creative Freelancer Conference Speaker Series (the big event is right around the corner, June 22-24 in San Francisco), Ilise Benun speaks with Jezra Kaye, author of “Speak Like Yourself, No Really,” and together they dissect each word of her session title: “Promote and Present: How to Speak Persuasively to Current and Future Clients, In Person and Virtually” and in the process, answer 3 common questions about speaking in public. Continue reading
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Time to Talk at CFC? You bet!
That’s the beauty of CFC (June 22-24 in San Francisco). The speakers will be sitting at the tables with you, milling around in the hallways with you, Netwalking with you, hanging out at the bar with you. Many of us will be sticking around for HOW after CFC is over. And some of us (me!) will be stocked with really good chocolate to help you overcome your fear of talking business with strangers. Business is scary. Ghirardelli chocolate is not. Continue reading
Posted in All Posts, CFC, Client Relations, Freelance Writing, Freelancing, Growing Your Business, Networking Tagged cfc 2013, client relations, netwalking Leave a comment
[Podcast] 10 Tips for Networking With a Purpose
In preparation for the networking fest that is CFC 2013: The Business Conference for the Creatively Self Employed (www.creativefreelancerconference.com), networking expert, author and speaker Dana Manciagli shares with Ilise Benun 10 tips to networking with a purpose to get what you need. Continue reading
"Freelancer" Hires Full Time + Part Time Help!
CFC Veteran, Theresa Previ of Brooklyn, NY-based Treemarie says contracts are flying in so much she's hired f/t and p/t help PLUS is moving out of her home office. She'll be back at CFC in 2013 to learn more about the next stages of growth. Continue reading
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Growing By Scaling Back to Freelancing
Bennett DeOlazo of Studio B shares his progress and goals achieved since CFC 2012 and what he'll be for this year at CFC in San Francisco (June 22-24). Continue reading
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Another freelancer reaches her goal!
Last year at CFC, I met Amy Caracappa-Qubeck and she told me her goal was to quit her in-house job and go full time freelance by the end of 2012. Well she made the leap in January and just launched her new web site. Check it out: www.amycq.com Continue reading
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How to Find The Best Projects for You
Freelance copywriter, shares his epiphany of where his best, most lucrative and most satisfying work comes from and how he's going to get more of it! Continue reading
Posted in All Posts, CFC, Connecting, Freelance Writing, Freelancing, Growing Your Business, Networking Tagged cfc 2013, networking Leave a comment
[Podcast] Common Roadblocks for New Freelancers
Podcast: Bryn Mooth on where she is after 2 years of freelancing and her upcoming CFC session: What to Expect When You’re Freelancing, which is perfect for those who are anywhere on the continuum from "I’m thinking about it" to "I’ve made the move but I’m still struggling," Continue reading
Want To Work With Organizations That “Do Good”?
In this podcast/interview on the CFC 2013 Speaker Series, Ilise Benun talks w/ Sarah Durham of Big Duck about how to find companies who "do good." Continue reading
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Clarity = Productivity
Here's a list of what designer, Jenny Poff, has accomplished in the 7 months since CFC -- to show what is possible once you are clear on what you're doing and why! Continue reading
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