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
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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
Tag Archives: social networking
Podcast: Latest in Social Media for Creative Freelancers
Ilise Benun of Marketing-mentor.com interviews Colleen Wainwright (a.k.a. the communicatrix) for the CFC Speaker Podcast Series on the latest trends in social media networking for creative pros. Come hear her in person at CFC 2013, June 22-24 in San Francisco for her session, Making People Love You Madly: Selling Yourself in the Postmodern Marketplace. Details: www.creativefreelancerconference.com Continue reading
Are You Addicted to Facebook Too?
Web copywriter, Deidre Rienzo, quit Facebook 2 weeks ago but still feels the twitch. Here's how she deals with it. Continue reading
Social media making you lazy?
I had an epiphany of sorts: Networking such as this is absolutely invaluable. I would undoubtedly connect with several of my fellow conference-goers on Facebook and Twitter in the days and weeks following Big Omaha. Yet that initial interaction, that simple, “Hello, my name is … ” or “What did you think of that last speaker?” is decidedly much easier and even more meaningful when it happens in person. Continue reading
Posted in All Posts, Freelancers Union, Freelancing, Marketing Monday Tagged networking, social networking Leave a comment
And on June 24 at CFC
I am counting down...and one month from today (June 24) is Day 2 of the Creative Freelancer Conference in Chicago. Here's what we'll be doing... After a good night's sleep, a bunch of us will get up bright and early … Continue reading
LinkedIn Tips (for writers and other creatives)
For Marketing Monday (tell us what you're doing today in the comments), here are a few excellent LinkedIn Tips from Robert Lee Brewer, editor over at The Writer's Market. They're ostensibly for writers, but I think they apply to all of us creative professionals. Continue reading
One Photographer's LinkedIn Techniques
From the Strictly Business blog (an excellent resource from ASMP), here's a post by photographer, Jim Cavanaugh, in which he explains exactly how he uses LinkedIn to build his network and find new clients. He writes, "This powerful social networking tool has allowed me to add close to 500 new contacts in the last three months!" Continue reading
The trick to getting traditional media coverage
It is important, however, to not get completely swept away in the ocean of social media marketing. Traditional media relations – drafting press releases, sending pitch emails to reporters and editors, and monitoring the coverage of your client (or your own work) in any given community – still has a home in 2011, and will have for several years to come. Continue reading
Steady Marketing = Steady Clients
Steady clients keep the money streaming in. Ready to find some? What if, for 2011, you decided you were done with "feast or famine?" And what if you decided it was time to do what it takes to generate a … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Freelance Graphic & Web Design, Freelance Illustration, Freelance Marketing, Freelance Photography, Freelance Writing, Freelancing, Growing Your Business, Speakers, Sponsors & Partners Tagged cold calling, email marketing, freelancers union, Ilise Benun, networking, podcast, social media, social networking, word-of-mouth Leave a comment
My Two-Years’ Resolutions….
On Dec 31, 2008, we entered the “tip of the iceberg” in what we all can agree was a two-year introduction to a new and permanently changed economy for professional aspirations in commercial photography. Continue reading
Posted in Freelance Marketing, Freelance Photography, Freelancing Tagged blogging, facebook, marketing plan, Shannon Fagan, social networking, twitter 1 Comment
