Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 4, February
Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated staff and volunteers from the freelance community.
Each week, we’ll feature a selection of the best job opportunities posted for the week. This week, we’re featuring jobs in WordPress development, web design, marketing copy writer, and more!
To apply for any of these jobs, simply pick up a FreelanceSwitch membership for an affordable $7 a month. See something you like? Join now!
Linkswitch #58, Design Process, New Facebook Pages, Useful Freelance Tools
7 Reasons Your Website Doesn’t Bring In New Clients
As a freelancer, you count on your website as an important part of your marketing system. It is like a sales representative, gathering leads and warming them up to become paying clients, 24/7. That is, IF your website provides the appropriate content, attracts the right readers, is properly optimized for conversion, and is a pleasure to use.
Introverts: 6 Ways to Find Your Niche in the Office
It’s the same story everywhere you work: You can’t think on the fly during meetings or jump in during call-it-out brainstorming sessions. You feel drained after office events that involve being around a lot of people, no matter how nice they are. And you’re always pegged as the quiet one.
25 Amazing Photographer Portfolio Websites
Portfolio sites are often excellent sources of design inspiration. With photography portfolios the primary focus is of course the photography itself, so the design is often minimal to allow the photos to have the attention of visitors. In this post we’ll showcase 25 photography portfolios that show how design and photography can work together to create a beautiful portfolio site.
Ask FreelanceSwitch: IOUs and Networking with Clients
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In this issue of Ask FreelanceSwitch, we look at promissory notes and networking clients. 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.
FreelancerPro Interview: Never, Ever Get a “Real” Job
At just 26 years old, Scott Gerber is revolutionizing the way that people think about work. He is the founder and CEO of Gerber Enterprises, an entrepreneurial development and venture management company that has launched several successful businesses.
But his passion goes beyond business–he wants to help other young business people and thus founded the Young Entrepreneur Council, an advocacy group made up of many of the world’s top young entrepreneurs that works to help young people overcome the devastating effects of youth unemployment and underemployment by teaching them how to build businesses. Did I mention he wrote a book, too? There’s so much to tell–so I asked.
30 Inherently Useful Tools for Freelancers
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Being a freelancer can sometimes feel like a solo venture into the unknown, an exciting but nevertheless daunting prospect! We all have our particular strengths and individual weaknesses, but few of us would decline a little help with some of the more practical aspects of being a freelancer.
While not every tool on this list will be helpful for every freelancer, its overall aim is to provide you with resources that could help you significantly increase your productivity (do more…), get organized, work more efficiently, plan your to do items better, and maybe even save some money!
Persistence Pays: 4 Things You Can Do to Hang in There and Secure the Job
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They say that persistence is important, and if you ask me, it’s an essential characteristic of successful freelancers. After all, sometimes you put out an inquiry to work for a prospective client, maybe you hear back, but you don’t land the job.
What do you do–move on or potentially “waste” your time staying on top of the client? Let me introduce a third possibility: Stay on top of your efforts to secure the client without wasting time.
How do you do that, you ask? Here are a few ways you can persist. While I don’t guarantee you’ll wind up landing the gig, you stand a better chance by simply hanging in there with minimal effort. Continue Reading
Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 3, February
Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated staff and volunteers from the freelance community.
Each week, we’ll feature a selection of the best job opportunities posted for the week. This week, we’re featuring jobs in web design, WordPress blogging, Illustration, and more!
To apply for any of these jobs, simply pick up a FreelanceSwitch membership for an affordable $7 a month. See something you like? Join now!
Linkswitch #57, Typography Tips, Freelance Startup, Getting More Work
The Netsetter: Web Pages vs. Web Sites
A couple of weeks ago, I was trying to explain to a friend why links from high PageRank sites are often overrated. When he then insisted that I was contradicting advice I had given him earlier, I was confused for a moment, until he gave me a concrete example.
Useful Typography Tips For Adobe Illustrator
Typography is not only an all-important aspect of design, it is also an art form in and of itself. Choosing the right font, the perfect spacing and even the correct shape of text can be an important factor as to whether a project fails or succeeds. Although Illustrator is not really used for multiple-paged projects, many would agree that it is one of the most powerful applications for creating vector graphics, such as logos, and it is also often used for one-page documents, such as business cards, posters, or postcards.
The Guide to Crazy Comment Personality Types – Part 3
Well, this is it people. You’ve read Part 1 and Part 2 of our Crazy Comment Personality Guide. Although there is a heap more crazy on the Internet, this week we’re going to wrap up our tour of the crazy comment personality types you will most likely face on your blog.
Hopefully you have learned through these articles how to identify these special people and deal with them. Feel free to use your knowledge to root them out and step all over their dreams.
** Warning – this article may contain humor **
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Collecting What’s Due to You
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It’s enough to drive a freelancer over the edge: you work for hours and hours on a project, putting together something that you hope will knock the socks off of your client. Then, when the project is complete, suddenly something happens. The client doesn’t pay you. Maybe he’s just short on cash or maybe he disappears entirely — the details don’t matter so much as the fact that there’s no money in your bank account.
That puts you in the position where you have to go to some lengths to collect what’s due to you for the project you worked so hard on. Unfortunately, for many freelancers, the collections process is tough and doesn’t always provide you with the money your owed. The best thing you can do is prepare yourself to collect money before you have to actually go looking for it. Continue Reading
