Articles Tagged 'Freelancing'
Why Does Google+ Bring More Business To People Than Facebook?
Christian VasileGoogle+, sometimes abbreviated as Google Plus or G+, is a social network developed and maintained by the tech giant Google. The network was released in beta to the public 9 months ago, by the end of June 2011. The full release came in September. While the network was supposed to be a strong opponent for Facebook, it was never even close to it. The fact that many people use it today is entirely based on curiosity and mostly on Google's name and powerful brand and not because it brings something new to the business. Or is it...? Google estimates the social network will have around 400 million users by the end of this year, while Facebook approaches a billion. Twitter only has around 100 million users while LinkedIn with 30 million users more than the micro-blogging platform.
4 Tips to Retire Like Warren Buffet
Joshua SlateLike with any life changing decision, there are pros and cons to the decision to work for yourself. One such con is the responsibility to handle your retirement by yourself. If you aren’t careful as a freelancer you could be setting yourself up for financial ruin later on down the road. The burden of establishing your retirement fund rests entirely on your shoulders. In this post I hope to offer insight into different retirement planning options that can establish a safe financial future for freelancers in any industry.
7 Mistakes that Force Potential Clients to Dislike Your Portfolio
Stelian SubotinA portfolio is a collection of documents, works, progresses and basically everything you’ve done and want to show off. The point of a portfolio is to assist you in the process of presenting your skills, knowledge and experience. A portfolio has the aim of showing who you are in a short but detailed form. It’s important to always have a portfolio as you never know what kind of job opportunities you may have in any unexpected moment. That doesn’t mean you have to create one and carry 5 copies of it with you -- instead, you can always keep it online!
Tips to Find Balance Between Personal and Paid Work Before Life Rips You Apart
I am sure all of us have a lot of work to do during our freelance workday or even during the full-time agency job. But I am also sure that most of us have side projects as well. While some can be beneficial for your pocket and experience, sometimes you just want to develop your own tool, write a blog post or design something for friends or do some pro bono work. After eight hours of work, it is highly unlikely that you want to continue doing the same thing at home, so the question is how to manage doing both while still remaining motivated and focused on the goals. Moreover, if talking about what catches our attention all the time - money - personal projects are not usually the ones that put cash in our pockets.
An Interview with Lea Alcantara: One of the Best Female Web Designers in the World
agotaLea Alcantara is a web designer who runs her own business at Lealea Design. She was listed as one of the 50 best female web designers in the world. Her article series on The Art of Self-Branding got a lot of recognition from web designers world-wide. She also gives occasional talks on branding.
How to Avoid the 6 Clients that Could Hurt Your Business
Jenna ScaglioneAs freelancers we have a love/hate relationship with our clients. Without them we would be penniless, but at times they can make our work unbearably difficult. How do we handle the clients who don’t pay us, take all our time, and make our job harder than it needs to be? In my career I have worked with hundreds of clients and thankfully most have been amicable. But, every once in a while, one will come along that takes the wind out of my sails and this can potentially hurt my business if I let it. Knowing how to handle these unmanageable clients has helped me avoid potentially toxic situations.
How Ruben Gamez Turned Bidsketch Into A Successful Online Business
Ruben Gamez is the solo founder of Bidsketch , an online proposal software website for web designers. In only a year and a half, he managed to take Bidsketch from a humble side project that he started while having a full-time job to a full-time business that allowed him to quit his job and enjoy the freedom he has always desired. How did he do that? Today, Ruben shares his story with 1WD readers.
Things to Consider When Estimating for a Website Development Project
Ryan TaftDo you sell website development services? If so, then you are well aware how difficult it is to keep projects in scope during the website development process. Oftentimes website designers price website development jobs according to the specs initially presented by their client. Unfortunately, the client doesn't always know everything that he needs/wants until after the project has already been scoped. This leads to website development companies either eating costs or having to have very difficult conversations with customers in order to get paid for the additional functionality and features that clients request during the development phase. I like to refer to this as "scope creep". This article is going to talk about how we can avoid scope creep OR be prepared to deal with it effectively when it inevitably occurs. After you're finished reading this article my hope is that you will be better prepared to estimate your website development projects.
1stwebdesigner’s Life #5 – Sales Increase and Crap Site
Rochester OliveiraHello everyone :) Here we are again with a few more funny things to share. First of all, I want to say that we'll be improving this section and our funny content a lot, and the good part is that we won't be limited to comic strips anymore (tip: how often are you pinning stuff?). Needless to say that after a whole week of working hard you deserve those funny moments. Today our strips will talk about crazy clients ideas and a misunderstanding over wireframes. I'm pretty sure you have been requested to do a crazy .gif or a malicious script. So how to deal with it? And you remember that client who thought that those wireframes were the whole website, even after you explained that a wireframe is a concept validation tool? Well, let's laugh at this then!
Grand Slam Freelancing: Tips Learned From Top Tennis Players
JamalIn the professional tennis world, competition is at a whole new level of intensity than we've possibly ever seen. Unlike previous generations of greats, there is no longer just one or a few region(s) dominating the game. The landscape of today can see anyone from any country, despite not having a strong history of top elite players, having a legitimate shot at having a player take home one of the four Grand Slams, the top spot on the season ending rankings, winning the World Tour Finals, or capturing Davis Cup supremacy.
