Archive for the 'Freelance Tips' Category
Brian Zaikowski, the artist behind Demented Denizons.com, has some very cool marketing techniques that are worth sharing here. He creates Business Card Posters and Cartoon Tourist Guide Maps (click for zoom-able versions). Here’s how it works… Brian will find local businesses that want to be included in the design and are willing to give away the poster in their [...]
You can read all the juicy details over at FlashMagazine.com . Long story short though, a Flash programmer did a little experiment by cranking out Flash games and making money from the advertising. For the most part, the games are almost intentionally one-play quality. Like “cool, I played it. Don’t need to play it again”. [...]
Obviousness in 3…2…1… Tell people what you do. And wear it if you have to. Instead of sportin’ free ads for Nike or The Yankees, put your profession on a cap or t-shirt. Cafepress.com prints on-demand, so all you have to do is upload an image, and you got clothes that can make you money. [...]
Take a look at this site, YourPie.com . To me, it is a model small website. It has 5 to 10 pages of content, a nice shared header among them, and technically the hardest thing is a contact forum (which is not that hard). The site was probably put together in Dreamweaver (maybe Frontpage), so it [...]
If you use Yahoo mail with Spam Guard turned on, then you might as well forget about new clients contacting you directly at that email address. That’s sounds alarmist, but from doing years of customer service with CartoonSmart and contacting many people at their Yahoo address, I know this is a real problem…
HIRE AN ILLUSTRATOR.com
This website is worth a look, HireAnIllustrator.com . I don’t know much about them other than tracking their site for a few days now, but I like the idea. You can pay by the week or year to feature your portfolio on the site, and if you’re wondering why you might do that, [...]
So I have no idea how bulletproof (or bullet-ridden) this example contract is, but its yours if you want it. It comes from a friend of mine that is a freelance illustrator. He uses it regularly, but I don’t think it has ever been put to the test beyond a few nasty emails and the [...]
Should you use “I” or “we” when talking about your freelance services?
I’ve gotten this question posed to me a few times, the most recent being tonight, so thats a good reason to perma-answer it on the blog…
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