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
Tag Archives: target market
Breaking into the Real Estate Market (part 2)
From creative freelancer, Damien Golden, 5 tips for partnering with (and pursuing) real estate professionals as clients. Continue reading
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Breaking into the Real Estate Market
Designer, Damien Golden, shares the first steps of her simple process for breaking into the real estate market. Continue reading
Focus means you know where to fish
There's an excellent discussion going on over at the CFC LinkedIn group between CFC veteran, Tiffany Estes, and Luke Mysse in response to Tiffany's question, "How much work in the pipeline does it take to keep you sane?" Continue reading
Posted in All Posts, CFC, Freelance Graphic & Web Design, Freelance Marketing, Self-Promotion Tagged focus, pipeline, target market 1 Comment
CFC 2012: How to Begin Positioning as a Freelancer
Podcast/interview with CFC 2012 speaker, David Baker of @ReCourses, on why positioning is so difficult to do for yourself when you do it all day long for your clients. Continue reading
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Marketing Monday -- February 28, 2011
What if you’d rather eat paste than read the blogs within your target market? Continue reading
Posted in Freelance Graphic & Web Design, Freelance Illustration, Freelance Marketing, Freelance Photography, Freelance Writing, Freelancers Union, Growing Your Business, Marketing Monday Tagged creative freelancer conference, Dianne Rohlkohl, Ilise Benun, marketing plan, target market Leave a comment
Marketing Monday -- February 21, 2011
It's not a great day for direct outreach to your prospects, but it is a perfect day for research. Here are a few things to research: Continue reading
Finding your focus
It's Marketing Monday -- that means you have another opportunity to work ON your business, before the post-holiday rush of client requests sets in (and especially if there is no rush of client requests.) For my Freelance Column for the … Continue reading
Go the extra mile to learn what you want
I've been running my own graphic design business for almost 10 years. After attending my first CFC this past summer, I learned I could be doing so much more, and I learned feast or famine doesn't have to be a … Continue reading
What do your ideal clients say?
Can you tell the difference between your typical clients and your ideal clients just by what they say? You should be able to. Here's how. Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
