Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 3, May
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 Motion Design, UX/UI Design, Flash Design 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!
4 Time-Saving Ways to Generate More Online Sales via Email
If you’re a freelancer or if you sell a product online, you probably use email to find new prospects. Even in the age of Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest, email remains an excellent way to generate serious sales online. You’re probably fully leveraging your copywriting skills already to write great emails.
Here are four tips to make cold-calling via email more efficient:
Find Email Adresses with Rapportive
Find the email address of anyone using Rapportive — even that elusive CEO.
Many a time, you’d want to pitch the person occupying the highest position in an organization’s hierarchy. but the problem is you know only his name and not his email address. You might try Googling, but that doesn’t always work. Some websites even ask for money to reveal email addresses of CEOs and the like.
Here’s a quick tip to guess and verify anyone’s email address using Rapportive. Rapportive is like the Gmail People Widget on steroids. Once you type an email address in the ‘To’ field of the compose window, Rapportive immediately fetches information about that person from LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, then puts those details in Gmail’s sidebar.
If you find someone by the name Steve Cook but you don’t know his email address, you can guess it by trying these first name + last name combinations: steve@domain.com, cook@domain.com, stevec@domain.com, scook@domain.com, sc@domain.com. Type these in the ‘To’ field, and Rapportive will display appropriate details for only one of these email addresses and for the rest, only a gray avatar will be shown.
You can then conclude that the address for which relevant information was fetched is the right address, and discard the rest. The email you should be pitching to is this email address.
Pretty cool, isn’t it? Let’s say you’re pitching some startup founders from AngelList. You’ll find names of the founders there, but not their email addresses. In that case, you can use Rapportive to verify their email addresses.
Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 1, May
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 E-commerce Development, Game Design, Graphic Design 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!
Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 3, April
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, Brand Strategy, Web Development 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!
Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 1, April
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 UX Design, Screencast Creation, iOS Development 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!
Is Part-Time Freelancing a Good Deal?
It’s incredibly common to freelance on the side: if you’re working a day job, it’s inevitable that you’ll come across someone who wants you to exercise your skills off the clock. Some folks take it farther: actively seeking out freelance projects to do after they get off from their day job. But how does part-time freelancing stack up against going full-time? Continue Reading
The Business of Job Bid Sites for Freelancers
Bid sites have become a part of freelancing, no matter how much some of us dig in our heels and scream otherwise. It’s become very common for a freelancer to land her first clients through a site like Elance or Odesk, or for a freelancer to pick up some work to fill in holes in their schedule.
Sure, the rates are lower than what we can probably get when we’re dealing with clients on our own — or at least they feel that way after the site takes a bite out of our revenues. But there is a level of convenience that bid sites offer.
It’s important to weigh the pros and cons of job bid sites before you start using them. Continue Reading
Freelance Bootcamp: Finding Clients
For those of you who are following along with Freelance Bootcamp over on Tuts+ Premium, you’ll be into the second chapter of content: Running Your Business. The first couple videos in this chapter, “How to Get Your First Client” and “How to Find Your Ideal Client” deal all with the all important clients of your new freelance business. James Clear of Passive Panda advises some tips on getting your first clients, including:
- Why your first client is likely to come from your existing network
- How to approach friends and family for referrals
- The secret to what potential clients do and don’t care about
- Think like your client with empathy mapping
- Once you’ve identified them, how to effectively target your ideal client
If you’re following along with Freelance Bootcamp, feel free to discuss your ideas here! How did you find your first client? Have you found your ideal? Do you have questions for James so far? Continue Reading
The Secret Source of Never-Ending Customers for Freelancers
Nine out of ten freelancers will tell you that their biggest challenge is finding new customers.
And not just any customers – we’re talking about the good customers, the ones that really want to work with you, trust you to do a good job, listen to you, accept your guidance, and have a budget to pay for it all!
But finding customers like this isn’t easy, and that’s why so many freelancers find themselves pounding the pavement from networking event to networking event looking for their next lead.
And so they turn to the internet and blogosphere.
The promise seems to be that if you build a thriving online audience or community, you’ll have a never-ending stream of customers. So freelancers bite the bullet, add blogs to their websites, and work hard to update those blogs on a regular basis.
Except that most of those blogs have no readers, generate no business, and are nothing more than a giant, frustrating time-suck.
What are they missing? Continue Reading
Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 3, March
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 Front-End Development, WordPress Theme Development, Programming 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!
How to Extract the Facts with a Web Design Client Questionnaire
The phone calls usually go like this:
Caller: “I want a website for my business.”
You: “What kind of business do you have?”
Caller states the nature of the business, launches into a list of pages that he or she wants on the site, and then asks you for a price quote.
Not a very satisfying encounter, is it?
The caller seems most interested in price, and you? Well, you’re interested in a relationship. As in, the kind that lasts for years.
It might not be possible to have a meaningful relationship with price shoppers, but it’s worth taking the time to learn what your potential clients want in a website. This article will help you create a prospect qualification questionnaire that can be used via telephone or Internet or in face-to-face meetings. Continue Reading
Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 1, March
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 Interactive Design, Java Development, WordPress 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!
