We Recommend: Events for Freelancers
Creative Freelancer Conference
June 21 & 22, 2012, Boston MA. THE business conference for creative solopreneurs!
HOW Design University
Professional-level continuing education on the best ways to run a successful freelance design practice - ongoing online courses & workshops!
"Creative Professional’s Guide to Money" Webcast Series
Author, Ilise Benun, presents real-world tips for creative freelancers on the business mindset and how to manage your money.
Creative Freelancer Marketing Bootcamp Get advice on effective, easy, inexpensive marketing strategies in this 3-part DesignCast series for freelancers.
Category Archives: Inspiration
A Time Management System That Never Crashes
Laurel Black shares her paper-based time management system that prevents her from over-booking and never crashes. Continue reading
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Post Holiday Call To Action
Rockstar freelancer, Steve Gordon, Jr, shares some simple starter tips you can do to make something—of yourself—this year. Continue reading
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Designers: Enter the Regional Design Annual
PRINT'S 2012 REGIONAL DESIGN ANNUAL - America’s National Design Competition is now accepting entries. Deadine is February 1, 2012. Continue reading
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Free Webcast: The Only Marketing Tools You Need
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
Make Yourself Irresistible to Prospects
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 … Continue reading
Posted in All Posts, Designers, Growing Your Business, Illustrators, Inspiration, Marketing, Photographers, Self-Promotion
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Exercise your creativity in 2012
The "Caffeine for the Creative Mind" LinkedIn Group -- based on the well-known book, Caffeine for the Creative Mind by Stefan Mumaw and Wendy Lee Oldfield -- is up to Exercise #8 since they got started in October. Continue reading
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Are you sorry? @dyanavalentine is not!
This TEDx video from the always-inspiring, Dyana Valentine, is called, "I am not sorry" and although it is not directly business-related, lots of you will be able to relate. Continue reading
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Holiday Reading for Freelancers
I hope to have some down time over the holidays to read and reflect on last year and this coming year, both professionally and personally. If that is on your agenda too, let's start a list of books to read and recommend. Continue reading
Luke Mysse's Juicy Goal
Favorite Creative Freelancer Conference speaker, Luke Mysse, shares what's in his heart at TEDx Irvine. Continue reading
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Why giving up is so easy (and what to do about it)
I love this recent post on Neil Renicker's blog. It's so heartfelt and inspiring that I feel compelled to spread it around, especially to any creative freelancer who feels discouraged because you're not quite where you thought you'd be by now (at this age, at this time of the year, at this point in your life). Continue reading
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