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Freelance link round-up: July 16th
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
Were here with more links to fill your bookmarks folder.
9 Ways to get your portfolio seen
Your portfolio can be the best in the world, but if no one looks at it, then that’s irrelevant. This post looks at 9 ways to get clients checking you out.
How to Create a Dynamic Design Portfolio with Wordpress
Here’s one for all you techies out there. With a bit of tweaking and PHP magic, you can make wordpress into a fully functioning CMS-Portfolio system
How To Write a White Paper to Attract Clients
This post covers writing white-papers to market your services, and makes an awesome read
The Roadmap To Becoming A Professional Freelance Web Designer
Smashing Magazine’s Roadmap to Becoming a Freelance Designer, complete with tonne’s of resources and useful links.
13 Tips for Marketing Your Business With Your Blog
Need I say more?
10 Tips for Surviving The Economic Downturn
Were all sick of hearing about it, but we do need to be a little wary of the Credit Crunch. This post by WDD lists 10 ways to help stave off effects of a quietening economy.
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Link Roundup - 12 links to the perfect Freelance Portfolio
Monday, March 30th, 2009
We all want the perfect portfolio right? It takes a lot of work to achieve something that even resembles a great portfolio. So, we’ve given you the perfect selection of links to give you a perfect jump start.
I know the number of perfects used in the latter sentence wasn’t perfect, but hey…
In no particular order, we have the 12 links that will turn your portfolio around, or help shape your newest design / site. They’ll help you craft and mold the best out of what you have, with advice on the features and content that needs to be there. Enjoy!
- http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/04/creating-a-successful-online-portfolio/
- http://astheria.com/design/portfolios-that-accomplishgoals
- http://freelanceswitch.com/designer/the-secret-to-getting-a-lot-of-web-design-work/
- http://webdesign.about.com/od/jobs/a/aa071707.htm
- http://webdesign.about.com/od/jobs/a/aa102207.htm
- http://webdesign.about.com/od/jobs/a/aa052404.htm
- http://www.digital-web.com/articles/the_perfect_portfolio/
- http://webdesign.about.com/b/2007/10/11/how-should-a-web-designer-portfolio-work.htm
- http://webdesign.about.com/od/portfolios/a/what_include.htm
- http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000935.html
- http://www.davidairey.com/the-importance-of-client-testimonials/
- http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/11/26/revamping-your-portfolio/
Enjoy the links.
Do you have any you’d like to share with other freelancers? Drop it here
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7 awesome blogs for freelancers
Friday, February 13th, 2009
Blogging has gotten huge. So huge in fact, in even nichesque stuff (like freelancing) has several blogs or so devoted to the subject. Here’s a list of freelancing blogs where you can pick up tips, tricks and goodness from other freelancers. You can also interact with the freelancing community, and pick up even more goodness. Anyway, stop dilly-dallying and get these blogs in your Feed Reader if you haven’t already!!
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Link Round-up January 1st 2009
Thursday, January 1st, 2009
Its 2009! I can’t believe it. Sorry for the lack of posts recently guy’s, I have been a bit busy. What with developing my new portfolio and taking a little time off, time for this site has been stolen by other projects. That reminds me, I need to fill you in on a little ebook project I have in the works.
Anyway, back to the topic in hand. Well, not so much a topic, rather a round-up of some rocking links for any freelancer. Enjoy.
Web Designers Success Guide
A free ebook offered by Airgid as in an introduction into freelancing for web designers. From making that initial jump to setting your rates and finding clients. Also available as a hard copy. I plan to review this book at some point over the next few weeks.
CopyBlogger
A great blog for anyone who is into freelancing, not just for copywriters. There’s tips on improving your copy writing skills, with a copy writing 101 and seo copy writing information available. A truly great blog for any freelancers who need to write their own copy from time to time, or for copywriters who are looking to expand their business.
Fuel your Creativity
http://www.fuelyourcreativity.com/
Another brilliant blog for, you guessed it, creatives. With interviews and general articles on creativity and freelancing, every post of this blog is worth its weight (possibly not the best analogy) in gold.
SEO 2.0 Blog
An interesting seo blog.
40 excellent blog designs - Six Revisions
http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/40-excellent-blog-designs/
Looking for some bloggery inspiration? The wonderful six revisions blog have been busy compiling a nice list of cool blog designs.
SkellieWag
As Skellie herself puts it
Skelliewag.org is for current and future movers and shakers of the web: people who understand that content is King, Queen and the entire royal family.
- Are you fascinated by the unlimited potential of social media?
- Are you serious about all aspects of blogging?
- Are you intrigued by the art of creating viral content?
- Do you believe in the merit of simplicity and usability?
- Are you looking for rapidfire growth strategies?
If you answered yes to any or all of the above questions, you will find value in this blog.
Thanks Skellie, for creating such an excellent blog - for anyone who’s involved in freelancing or the Internet or even both :O
Freelance Switch
http://www.freelanceswitch.com
I adore freelance switch. The blog posts are regular, and very interesting. I particularly love how they have guest posters - it brings a real edge to their blog, and a different viewpoint. They also have a popular podcast, forums and a job board for picking up gigs. A really interesting blog, I cannot recommend them enough. Get this blog in your RSS now!
Self Marketing for Designers
http://www.marketing-designers.com/
A super duper book. This book really is only for designers, as the title suggests. A tad on the expensive side for a PDF ebook, but still, if your a designer (of the web or offline) then this makes a great investment. The book really does fill you in on the low down, and helps you develop a Unique selling proposition & create a genuine business offer. I’ve followed tips from this book myself. Great stuff!
Todo Application - Things
http://culturedcode.com/things/
Cultured code really do have their thinking caps on. Their latest offering is the wonderful task management application named “Things” for Mac OSX. A good friend of mine told me about things the other day, and after having tried it, I must say I am impressed. The interface is magnificent. So Simple & intuitive to use. This is the least bloated to do app I’ve ever used. Its totally usable. The full app will be released in 4 days time, for the sum of $49.95. Not bad eh? That must be a few months post-it notes.
Rawkes Weekly
http://rawkes.com/blog/2008/12/27/rawkes-weekly-27-december-2008/
My Friend Rob (from Essex :D) likes to do a weekly round-up of links and interesting info for designers and internet geeks. Rob has a very southern and unique style, and delivers the weeks internet news and general fun in a concise and wonderful manner.
Hope you enjoyed the post folks. The blog will be back to normal posting frequency from now on. Speaking of which, anyone interested in doing some guest posts?
Do you have any links you’d like to share?
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