Category Archives: Inspiration

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

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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

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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

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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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Need to fuel your creativity?

Last month we featured a post by Shannon Scheels about a new LinkedIn Group she was starting to fuel your creativity and based on the wildly popular book, Caffeine for the Creative Mind (250 Exercises to Wake Up Your Brain) … Continue reading

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Free radical is better than freelancer

Scott Belsky, CEO of Behance, on the new type of 21st century professional that closely resembles the freelancer, now called "free radical" Continue reading

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