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  1. How to Become a Successful Freelancer: As a freelancer, you are free to put your feet up and work, if that’s what gets your creative juices
  2. 5 Ways To Survive Your Inbox: I love email. I hate email. Most people probably have a similar love/hate relationship with email
  3. How to Get Started as a Freelancer and Land Your First Real Client: This blog post is all about starting out as a freelancer. I’ll outline the steps you need to tak
  4. 10 Simple Steps to Increase Productivity: Advertise here with BSAFor freelancers and for everyone who are working, we would always want to be
  5. Building a Great Web Design Portfolio – 10 Best Tips & 40 Examples: Advertise here with BSATo a prospective client, you as a web designer are often only as good as your
  6. Branding for Beginners Where to Start: According to Kristie Rimmele, Internet Marketing and Branding Expert, 75 percent of consumer buying
  7. How to Land a Great Internship in Web Design: Internships can provide invaluable experience to the novice web designer who is still getting their
  8. How to Deal With a Non-Paying Client: We all would like to live in a perfect world. One without suffering, sickness and… annoying clients.
  9. How To Get The Salary You Deserve: Episode #255 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to
  10. 10 Fatal Freelancing Mistakes to Avoid: The benefits of being a freelancer have long been spoken about: bloggers and industry experts have w
  11. Questions to Ask Yourself Before Becoming a Freelancer: Advertise here with BSA
    The web is an ocean of information, advertising and communication that is at
  12. Brand Yourself – Logo Development: A New Arsenal Video Tutorial by Adam Law: Designing for yourself can be a complex and dreadful exercise
    These days, there’s extra pressure on
  13. Ethics and Freelancing: Freelancing is about having the right skills, good marketing, and even about flexibility.
    But it
  14. 7 Great Ways to Get Your Resume Noticed: Getting your resume noticed is the first step towards a successful employment, and it may lay down t
  15. 5 Time Management Tips for Freelancers: Do you find that you’re constantly up against the clock? Is managing your work / life balance an
  16. The Three Stages of Negotiating: Negotiate! The very word sends chills up the spine of the most confident freelancers.
    You can r
  17. Why Freelancers Need a Brand and How to Create One: We all know that large and small businesses alike benefit from great branding. Freelancers, on t
  18. Ideas for Expanding Your Web Design Business: Advertise here with BSA
    So your web design company is ready to roll. You’ve got happy customers and
  19. Web Designers, Get Out There and Make Something!:   When people ask me what I do, I tell them I make websites. They usually smile and nod and then a
  20. Cup of Joe: Come Experiment With Me!: Ok, first watch this video: Next watch this one: Question: What do these two videos have in common
  21. 11 Tips for Getting More Out of Personal Projects: Many designers choose to work on some projects of their own in addition to work that they do for cl
  22. How to Get Yourself Moving Again After a Knock Back: This is a guest post by John Burnside. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guideli
  23. Professional Practices They Don’t Teach You In Art School: Portfolio – What Do You Really Need In It: Professional Practices They Don’t Teach You In Art School: What Do You Really Need In Your Portfolio
  24. What Makes a Bad Client and How to Deal with Them?: For a full-time freelance designer, hardly a day goes by without hearing about or reading some night
  25. 8 Things They Don’t Tell You About Being a Web Designer: Advertise here with BSA
    After nearly fifteen years working as a web professional, there are many thi
  26. The web designer’s guide to a happier life: Advertise here with BSALife as a web designer can be insanely busy. We have multiple clients, each
  27. How Using Subcontractors for Projects Can Earn You More Money: What if I told you there is a way you could be making more money without working extra hard?
    You
  28. Freelancing Close to Home: Recently we’ve talked about the importance of global freelancing. While it is important to keep
  29. Discover Your Sweet Spot for Winning Freelance Work: Advertise here with BSA
    I have had the good fortune of being both a freelancer and a consumer of fre
  30. How to Avoid Freelancing Burnout: Here at Freelance Folder, we’ve talked a lot about freelancing burnout, from the warning signs o
  31. 5 key ingredients for startup success: (Editor’s note: Tod Whipple is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of StartupAddict.com. He submit
  32. 5 things to consider before firing back at online critics: (Editor’s note: Curtis Smolar is a partner at Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley. He submitted this c
  33. How To Build Your Facebook Fan Page The Smart Way: Creating a Facebook fan page is easy, but just creating a fan page is not enough. If you’re lookin
  34. 6 Charlie Sheen quotes to make you a better entrepreneur: (Editor’s note: Jason L. Baptiste is the CEO and co-founder of PadPressed and co-author of the OnSta
  35. 10 Tips for Effective Self-Branding: Advertise here with BSAIt has been the question of many on how clients and consumers choose which se
  36. How to Use a Facebook Fan Page to Promote Your Freelance Business: Facebook, with more than 500 million active users, presents an excellent marketing opportunity f
  37. Common Health Problems of Freelance Designers and How to Deal With Them: Being a freelance designer has its own pros and cons. You get to work from the comfort of your own h
  38. Effective Communication Tips for Web Designers: Advertise here with BSA
    We lay increasing importance on doing things in the user’s best interest and
  39. 4 Internet Marketing Strategies You Must Know: I was browsing through my RSS reader today and came across an interesting post from my friend Glen A
  40. 7 Tips for Prioritizing Tasks Effectively: Most designers, regardless of whether you are self employed or an employee, have a to-do list full
  41. “But I don’t LIKE Facebook and Twitter” Makes No Sense To Me…: “But I don’t LIKE Facebook and Twitter” Makes No Sense To Me…
    To which my response is always “But d
  42. Do you need a mentor – or a teacher?: (Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany. This st
  43. Professional Practices They Don’t Teach You In Art School: Resumes – Why Yours Won’t Work!: One piece of business communication that hasn’t changed in a thousand years is the résumé. It’s the
  44. 10 Secrets to Be a Better Freelancer: The struggle in freelancing is quite far from the competition of regular businesses. The word “freel
  45. How to Make Your Freelancing Website More “Cutting Edge”: Do you ever get the feeling that, because you’re a freelancer, much is expected of you?
    For exam
  46. 25 Easy Ways to Fine Tune Your Freelancing Business: One of the things about freelancing that’s both helpful and harmful, is that once you get the bu
  47. Server Headers 101 (Infographic): For newbies in the business of crafting websites, the purpose and technicality behind server header
  48. Preparing for a Freelance Career: I’ve been planning to become a freelancer since college. During my second year of school I picke
  49. Forms, User Info, Spam and the Law
  50. Navigating the Pitfals of a Client-Friend Relationship: Credit: Mike Johnson on sxc.hu
    Last week I had a meeting with a new prospective client that got seri
  51. How to Work with Family and Friends: At some point in your life, someone close to you will seek out your illustration or design skills. T
  52. Taking Credit Card Payments Online: What’s Involved?:   If you’re looking to integrate a credit card payment solution onto your website, the following s
  53. 7 Simple Ways to Painlessly Increase Your Freelancing Rates: For freelancers, the topic of freelancing rates is an important one. Our fees, or how much we ch
  54. The Shy Freelancer’s Guide for Face-to-Face Networking: Networking is the cornerstone of any successful freelance business. It’s one of the most effect
  55. 4 Strategic, Freelance Lessons Learned in Business School: Credit: Vancouver Film School on Flickr
    It surprises most people when they find out that I am double
  56. Setting a budget for your business as a freelancer: One big mistake freelancers often do is to go without a budget. Sure, every freelancer would like to
  57. 63 Juicy Internet Entrepreneurship Interviews in One Book: #Code Bytes: The Internet is full of countless industries and make money opportunities that most individuals th
  58. 9 Ways To A Better Interview: Whether you’re looking for a job, hiring people or interviewing people for your Blog or Podcast, the
  59. Your Client Knows More Than You: "The customer is always right." It’s an often disagreeable adage, but it exists for a rea
  60. 4 Basic Tips For Making the Perfect Business Card: Here are 4 Basic Tips For Making the Perfect Business Card.
  61. 5 Steps for Overcoming Client Anxiety: Clients are what keep every company in business. Unfortunately, not every client/freelancer rela
  62. 7 Tips To Start a Web Design Career: Remember that there are a lot of other things to consider before starting a career in web design and
  63. 15 Tips on How to Retain Designer’s Creativity: An artist, whatever genre you are passionate of, would always experience a “Creative Block”.
  64. The importance of a quality portfolio: A portfolio is the gathering of a freelancers or web designer most successful work. It is simple a
  65. Creative Resume Samples for Inspiraion: Every designer needs a resume which should represent his abilities in such a nice and inspiring and
  66. 8 Tips To Improve your Networking Skills: Networking. We all know it’s the key to success in the web industry. Why else would social networkin
  67. 25+ Clean Portfolio Web Designs for Inspiration: If you are looking for some inspiration to make your own portfolio, check out these samples of great
  68. Workflow Management: When companies look to streamline operations, eliminate redundant work processes and improve how wor
  69. 7 Basics to Create a Good Design Brief | Webdesigner Depot: There are a number of basic parts that any good design brief includes. Getting your clients to inclu
  70. Beginning As Freelancer – Self Employed Professional: At the very outset we should bear in mind that freelancer is designation given to self-employed. Wri
  71. Anatomy of a Design Decision: “In this presentation, Jared will take you on an entertaining deep dive into the gut instinct of the
  72. How a Single Bullet Can Get a Customer to Buy: I remember going to a workshop in 2003.
    The price of the workshop was $8000. Plus there was oversea
  73. 10 Top Tips to Combat Procrastination: Procrastination can be dangerous for a freelancing business.
    If you put critical tasks off for t
  74. 10 most important questions keep in your mind at the time of making a logo or a brand identity | creativebits™
  75. 7 Basics to Create a Good Design Brief: There are a number of basic parts that any good design brief includes.Getting your clients to inclu
  76. Are you and your client on the same page?: As a web site designer, one of your primary goals is to help your client “sell” its products or serv
  77. How To Build a Stylish Portfolio Web Design Concept: This tutorial covers part one of a multi-part series where we’ll go through the process of building
  78. Beginner’s Guide to becoming a Professional Web Designer: Web designing is a fair combination of creative skills & technical know-how. A great, successful
  79. Simple Ways to Know What Your Client is Thinking: The most important part in doing projects with your clients is to read their minds. A company has po
  80. A set of Terms and Conditions Relevant to Design Work: Every design project is different and the best will result from trust between the client and the des
  81. Freelance Proposals and How to Make Them Effective: I’ve been getting requests for the article on doing proposals, and it is finally here! This will cov
  82. Mediocrity vs. Excellence: What Separates Good From Great?: As a designer, especially one without a lot of experience, it’s normal to look at the designs of oth
  83. What You Need to Know About Freelance Invoicing and Accounting: Why Use A Bookkeeping and Invoicing Program? Well, if you don’t think it’s vital to have something f
  84. Freelancer Time Management and Why Time Tracking Sucks: The statement in the title is a bit bold to say and many people will go against me when I say it, bu
  85. How To Build A Team: Today I will explain how to build the team, what are the blockages in the process of building a succ
  86. Top 10 Design Business Failures: Running your own design business or thinking about starting one? Check out these slides on “My Top 1
  87. 5 Ways to Keep Yourself Focused at Work: Here is an occurence you see too many times before – you start of your day by telling yourself that
  88. Confessions from Inside of a Freelancer’s Own Family: “Honey, I love you but….At times you really @#&% me off.”
    At least that’s what one freelance
  89. How to Write (and Execute) a Powerfully Simple Business Plan: “The plan is nothing, planning is everything.” ~Dwight Eisenhower
    Everyone has an opinion on it.
    Sh
  90. 3 tips every entrepreneur should know: (Editor’s note: Doug Collom is vice dean and an adjunct lecturer on venture capital and entrepreneur
  91. 8 Essential Steps to Starting Your Freelancing Biz: Getting started in freelancing is pretty scary stuff. In all likelihood, you don’t know a lot of
  92. Need More Customers? 5 Ways to Get Them to Know, Like, and Trust You: It’s Valentine’s week on Copyblogger! This week’s posts will focus on how to improve reader and cus
  93. Advice for New Freelancers: If you’re new to freelance design and seeking advice on pricing, writing contracts, potential-client
  94. Tips for Presenting Your Portfolio: Congratulations! You have a portfolio presentation coming up. But presenting your portfolio in an ac
  95. Freelancing: Using your own name vs. Creating a business name: Should you market yourself using your own name or create a business name?
    There are Pros and Cons to
  96. Web Hosting for Beginners: What You Need to Know: Whether you are setting up your first website for your business or just a personal site for yoursel
  97. A little fun with the average tech salaries as reported by dice.com: dice.com recently released it’s annual “2010-11 Tech Salary Survey Results”. IN it, there is a page
  98. Fiverr Case Study: Growing Your Internet Empire for $5: For some reason, I clicked on a link in a spam email today. As with about 20 other emails I receive
  99. Useful Resources and Tips for Managing Your Virtual Staff: Credit: Eliffio on Flickr
    If you are a typical freelancer, you probably started your business as a o
  100. What Everyone Ought to Know about Initial Client Meeting: In the glorious field of web design there are far too many prices, skillsets, levels of professional
  101. A Designers Nightmare – How to smoothly handle sign-offs & revisions: Being a designer doesnʼt mean “stare at a computer”. It means networking & connecting, answering
  102. 7 Common Project Management Problems (And How to Solve Them): It doesn’t matter how talented you are, if you can’t manage your projects, then you will struggle t
  103. 6 Simple Ways to Effectively Communicate with Your Client: I was talking with another freelancer yesterday, and he mentioned how professional he thought my
  104. The Price is Right: Breaking Down the Design Process:    Like with most creative fields, there are those who operate outside them
  105. Developing a Freelance Marketing Plan: Freelancing can be a great opportunity for designers at any stage in their career. For some it may
  106. 6 Essential Things All Freelancers Should Be Doing: Awful situations can teach us a lot, and it’s almost inevitable that at some point in your freelanc
  107. How To Tell When Your Rates Are Too Low: credit: stuartpilbrow on Flickr
    A few months ago, I needed a designer to team up with on a project.
  108. The Main Principle of Charging a Flat Rate: As you begin your freelance career, one the biggest dilemmas you will likely face is whether to
  109. How to deal with clients who micromanage: Today, I’d like to share a few ways I have tried to work around a micromanaging client. Maybe some o
  110. How to Use LinkedIn for Your Web Design Business: In this post, we’ll look at ways to beef up your profile as well as use new applications and section
  111. 25 Nuggets of Entrepreneurial Wisdom for Designers: I know you’re busy working in and on your design business, so I don’t want to take too much of your
  112. Tips For A Successful Resume That Will Help You Get The Job You Want: All in all just remember that a good resume is your chance to get a good job so just try to make it
  113. Tips for Becoming a Successful Freelancer: Basic tips and a guide for beginner level freelancers. How to achieve success in freelancing. Learn
  114. Simple Ways To Sharpen Your Freelancing Skills: Most people find themselves working eight hours a day, five days a week. They could be connected to
  115. 10 Tips for Landing that First Graphic Design Job, Part II: Okay, you’ve got things prepared for the actual job hunt: your own goals, your resume, and a great p
  116. 10 quick tips for first time freelancers: Beginning your freelance career can be a scary time in your life, no matter how excited you are at t
  117. 10 Tips for Providing Great Customer Service to Your Clients: The way your customers feel towards you is important. The more you show you care about them, the mo
  118. Starting A Web Design Business: If you don’t like the idea of working for somebody else and you’re quite attracted to idea of world
  119. 8 Portfolio Phrases That Send the Wrong Message: Like corporate website, which use phrases like “innovative strategies” and “leading-edge solutions”
  120. Simple Ways To Sharpen Your Freelancing Skills: Most people find themselves working eight hours a day, five days a week. They could be connected to
  121. The Necessary Qualities Why You Should Hire Yourself: In freelancing, job hunting may seem a tedious process. First, you need to prepare a careful layout
  122. How to Get More Exposure for Your Freelancing Business: Just like any other business, a freelancing business needs exposure to gain more clients. Not on
  123. Aboard Entrepreneurship collects essays from the top web entrepreneurs: Adii Pienaar has announced the creation of Aboard Entrepreneurship, a project to collect essays fro
  124. The Difference Between Art And Design: Like many other common fallacies in the world of creativity, “art and design are one and the same th
  125. The Branding Difference – More Than Just a Logo: There are times when a client will come to us seeking a designer to brand their company, believing t
  126. What to Ask a Client Before You Start Their Project: We all know the importance of fact-finding before starting any web design project.We can’t really ge
  127. Client vs. Designer: Four Lessons to Win the Battle: Sometimes, the client/designer relationship is like an age-old matchup reminiscent of Ali vs. Frazi
  128. 10 Ways to Get Your Name in Front of Prospective Clients: The most difficult part about starting out as a freelancer is finding work. If you’ve ever spent
  129. Should you work for free?: This flowchart will help you find the right answer. Click for full image.
    Via: jhische
  130. Successful Entrepreneur: What It Is and How to Become One?: Many people dream of becoming an entrepreneur. The title is immediately associated with success. Al
  131. 5 Mistakes to End Your Freelance Career: Credit: doobybrain on Flickr
    Please learn from my mistakes.
    First, who is this guy?
    I’m Allan and I
  132. Web Developer’s Guide to Getting a Startup Up and Running: Despite the overall economic downturn, there seems to be yet another boom in web startups. In the ’
  133. 9 Tips to Run a Freelance Design Business: As a designers, we can be motivated by inspirations. However, it is also important to consider stra
  134. How to Manage Your Time for Success: The ability to manage time wisely is actually a skill that we have to learn in our journey as a des
  135. 5 Steps to More Effective Time Management: Most designers and freelancers wish there was more time in the day to work. It seems like no matter
  136. How to Quote Projects for Work You’ve Never Done: Even when we list out our services on our portfolios, you’ll always get quote requests for somet
  137. 10 Practical Tips to Start a Web Design Career: Any web designer in any level of experience, must be started at some point in life as a new comer.
  138. Is Working Freelance Really Worth It? Pros and Cons: Are you tired of working for clients you don’t like? Want control of your time, location, and projec
  139. 9 Tips To Make A Resume and Get The Job You Want: A resume is the first impression you can give an employer. A badly designed resume will only result
  140. Freelancer’s Guide to Coffee – Part 3: The Percolator Coffee Pot: Photo credit: visualpanic on Flickr
    This week we wrap up our Freelancer’s guide to coffee with a loo
  141. Building your design business: promotion: The last in the series from brand and marketing strategist Bernadette Jiwa. Whilst looking through
  142. Five Great Web Apps For People Who Run Professional Websites: There are many web apps out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I
  143. Client Presentation Tips for Designers: credit: Spence Photo/flickr
    Presenting designs to clients is a tricky part of the project cycle. Yo
  144. 10 Secret Reasons Why You Lose Clients: Have you ever lost a client and then wondered why?
    Of course, you can always ask your client wha
  145. 7 Great Tips for Attracting New Clients: At various point of running our businesses as designers we need to find ways of attracting new clien
  146. 6 Things To Consider When Analyzing Your Competitors: Keeping track of what services competitors offer work for them and how they bring people into their
  147. 10 Ways to Help Designers Make Money: Any designer, especially those who work freelance online feel the urge to open new revenue streams s
  148. 5 MORE Answers to Common Freelance Design Questions [Podcast]: A follow-up podcast to "5 Common Freelance Design Questions". Covers 5 more common questions.

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