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In this issue of Ask FreelanceSwitch, Travis King and Thursday Bram look at freelance fashion and bosses who take advantage. Ask FreelanceSwitch is a regular column here that allows us to help beginners get a grip on freelancing. If you have a question about freelancing that you want answered, send an email to askfreelanceswitch@gmail.com .
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Ask FreelanceSwitch #20: Professional Appearance, Tough Side Jobs
A few months ago a friend and I jumped on the ferry and took a day trip to beautiful Vancouver, BC, Canada, to experience our first ever Freelance Camp . The event was touted as a chance for freelancers, entrepreneurs, business owners, and anyone interested in learning more about freelancing to discuss ways to start, expand, or improve their business.
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Freelance Camp and Other Conferences for Freelancers
It’s officially fall, but for much of my country, it’s still hot! If your freelance business is based in a home office you may be trying to work in unseasonable heat or humidity. Without air conditioning, slaving away over a hot laptop can be rough. Here are a few home office alternatives to beat the heat: Libraries College or university libraries may not be ice-cold but often they have air conditioning.
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Your Freelance Office: 6 Places to Beat the Heat
Last week Paul Scrivens (aka. Scrivis of Drawar fame) posted We Do Not Need You To Design Anymore , in which he asks if web designers are still needed and what value we add over cheap and generic logos and themes. I think Paul’s main reason for writing the post is to get web designers to think about the question so we can provide reasons why we are still needed and valuable and that’s where this post comes in
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Why You Need Design
I’m the emergency point of contact for more than a few of my family members: my work means that I don’t have to ask for leave and, at least in theory, I can drag my laptop along to emergency rooms and elsewhere with little concern. The situation makes sense to me and I don’t have nearly the qualms about it that I have when friends and relatives ask me to drop everything and wait for their cable man
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Freelancing & Caring for Family
I’ll be honest, when I first heard about SpiderOak , I wasn’t sure what to think. I certainly do not like spiders, and I’m terrified of oaks, so I was a little worried about what I had gotten myself in to. Luckily, SpiderOak has nothing to do with either spiders or oaks.
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Backup Your Computer: SpiderOak Review
This article is for the rest of us – people who are NOT professional copywriters, but need good copy and good headlines for our websites and email newsletters .
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3 Headline Formulas For Non-Copywriters
Last week I started a discussion of IA and offered 4 principles of information architecture based on the work of Dan Brown. This week I want to continue with the last 4 of the 8 principles Dan provided in his PDF
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4 More Principles Of Information Architecture
Once upon a time, the Pony Express was the fastest way to deliver trusted information . On Tuesday, November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States . The next day a Pony Express rider departed from Fort Kearny, Nebraska with the election results and headed for Fort Churchill, Nevada.
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Which Information Should You Trust?
In 1922 at the age of 67 Alfred Wallis began painting. Until that time he had been a deep sea fisherman and later a marine stores dealer, professions hardly considered to be creative
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Why You’re More Creative Than You Realize
There appears to be two types of small business owners: people who jump right into running their business and marketing their products and services with little or no planning, and those who plan a strategy — and a service or product design — before they ever dream of offering it to the public. Is one better than the other
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Are You a Jumper or a Planner?
People seem to be moving to a new home more and more often as our society becomes more mobile. Moving house is stressful enough; what do you do when you also have to move your home office and be up and running for business quickly?
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Tips on Moving Your Home Office
If you were given a choice when first taking your “brick and mortar” business online to develop a website or set up a Page on Facebook, and you weren’t allowed to do the other which would you choose?
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Why Your Website is More Valuable Than Facebook
Hi, Some of my best posts (at least IMHO) are derived from questions put to me by students and visitors to one of our ‘killer’ sites. So, this time around, I have a great question from an old school Oracle developer who wants to get into the web game: Hi Stefan, Speaking for myself, I’m a former Oracle application and database developer (10 yrs exp) who’s looking to transition to freelance web design/development, and will likely become a subscriber to KillerSites University in short order
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Transitioning to Web Design and Web Development.
New web service Tischen is on a mission to rid the world of unemployment. The site provides users with a variety of ways to showcase their skillset on the Internet and make themselves available for contact with prospects, whether they be freelancers in need of clients or job seekers on the search for steady work. At the core of Tischen’s mission seems to be the belief that a lack of visibility is the biggest barrier to getting a job
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New Web Service Tischen Attempts to Rid the World of Unemployment
An Effective Marketing Plan: Getting Started Effective marketing campaigns are the foundation for your business’ success.
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Linkswitch #30: Pricing Tactics, Effective Marketing Campaigns
The more clients I get, the more amazed I am at the way the world is shrinking as the internet grows. I have clients in the US, Australia, the UK, India, and right here in Canada, on the other coast and within my humble city. I love freelancing, but it’s not something I would choose to do for free – despite what the clients think! I’ve had to explore some of the available ways to get paid, and I’d like to know how you handle this essential part of the business.
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Ways to Get Paid Around the World
Until recently, I seemed to prefer to always do things the hard way. If a website needed to be created, I would learn how to code it, populate it, and then publish it. During renovations of my home I learned how to do my own electrical, dry wall, plumbing, and first aid. I nearly had to learn how to handle my own divorce, but luckily that was avoided. We justified learning these things ourselves in order to offset the cost of paying someone else to do it, but in retrospect, this is probably a backwards way of looking at things.
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Do You Need Professional Help? The Limits of Doing It Yourself
Search results for a phrase like “web design services” should quickly tell you there’s a lot of competition out there. Why should someone hire you instead of any of those other companies listed in the results?
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How To Differentiate Your Freelance Design Business
One thing I know for sure: your customers are busy people. They see and hear your marketing message, and they may think, “Hey, that’s a great product!” Then a child (or the boss) starts to scream, or an ice storm knocks out power, or they run out of gas on the highway, and POOF! – Instant Distraction. Placing just one advertising message and expecting miracle sales is a recipe for marketing disaster. Marketing is a marathon not a sprint.
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Why Marketing Fails #6: Lack of Repetition