Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 3, June
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 PHP Development, Drupal Development, Creative Writing 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!
7 Ways to Use Your Blog to Attract New Freelance Clients
Your blog can be a powerful tool for attracting and signing new clients for your freelance business. Like every part of your marketing, it pays to invest the time needed to publish a blog that shows your skills in the best possible light.
I believe that a blog needs to “pay its own way” and justify the time and money you will invest. The good news is that a few “tweaks” to your blog can boost its performance and deliver high-paying clients.
Here are 7 ways you can turn your blog into a powerful client-attraction tool. Continue Reading
Now, Why Didn’t I Think of That?
How many times has a colleague done something that turns widely profitable, or landed a great gig, and instead of being happy for their success, all you can think is, “Why didn’t I think of that?”
Jealousy is a common emotion in freelancing.It’s easy to view a colleague’s gain as your loss. But instead of wasting time beating yourself up about it, try to put this energy to work for you.
Here are some tips on how to move forward after you’re bitten by the green-eyed-monster.
- See it as an example. If your colleague can land a great job, why can’t you? Let their good luck propel you forward, and remind yourself that your goals are achievable, too.
- Learn from it. Pay closer attention to what your colleague did to land this spot. It may look like a pure luck, but there’s usually more to it than that. Is he more active on social media, or more diligent about going to conferences and networking events?
5 Action Steps to Take When Clients Leave Your Business
About a year ago my best client walked away. I called her up to find out what I did wrong, and she replied in a mild tone of voice – “I’ll let you know if your services are still relevant to my business.”
Wow, that was difficult to hear, and the lack of clarity left me wondering what had gone wrong. I had earned quite a sizeable amount of money working on writing projects for her. My most profitable client was slipping through my fingers. I needed to scramble to fix this situation fast.
What did I do wrong?
I quickly looked at the last two completed projects, which were fully paid and finalized. I tried analyzing them, questioning, “what did I do wrong?”
I couldn’t pinpoint a single ugly ‘step’ I took. I was lost in the dark, and it seemed my ideal, prompt-paying client was leaving. I needed to analyze the situation and formulate a plan.
Fortunately, there are key actions steps to take for retaining clients on a regular basis, as well as strategies for keeping a client that is about to walk out the door right now. If you have guts, then you have a good chance of getting a lost client back. Continue Reading
Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 1, June
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, Payment App Development, Facebook App 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 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
