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Tag Archives: freelance
Make This Year Matter: Propel Your Freelance Biz Forward
Have you been wondering how to start freelancing or how to make your freelance business more successful? Stop dreaming and take action with this compilation of favorite freelance resources from HOWDesign.com.
Creative Freelancers: Are You an Accidental Workaholic?
There are many joys of being a thriving freelancer, like choosing your projects and deciding when and where you work. But there are perpetual challenges, too, like managing client requests when you’re swamped or simply need time to decompress. Often, …
Categories: Design Careers: Industry Advice & Job Search Tips, On the Job: Advice & Tips for Designers
Tags: Career advice, career tips, client relations, Designers, freelance, freelancing
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Turn Slow Time Into Go Time
Most freelance designers are used to ebb and flow in their work schedules. There’s no guaranteed way for keeping work coming through your door, but you can take some steps to help make your downtime more productive.
Design Career: Are You Ready to Be a Freelancer?
Experts agree that the talent level among freelance designers is increasing. Are you ready to be a freelance designer? Ask yourself these questions.
Categories: Featured, Freelance Design Work & How to Freelance
Tags: Career advice, career tips, Designers, freelance, Freelance Designer, freelancing, self-promotion
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Shift from Moonlighter to Full-time Freelancer
This is the year to awaken your creative business dreams. These three unique approaches will help you make the leap from moonlighting to full-time freelancing. What are you waiting for?
5 Ways to Stop Being a Starving Artist in 2013
Attention freelance graphic designer: Do you find yourself slipping into starving artist mode already? It’s time to start (or restart) the New Year on the right foot with these tips to break out of the dangerous starving artist cycle you’ve fallen into.
Get More Clients for Your Design Business
Want to get more clients? Check out this real-world client proposal, sample qualifying material, book excerpt and expert interview to learn how to find clients.
6 Tips for Generating Business Through LinkedIn
You may have established a LinkedIn profile, but you’re likely not taking full advantage of it. Learn how designers can maximize this social networking tool’s potential to find new client prospects.
Categories: Articles, Design Business & The Industry of Design, Design Business Clients: Communication & Management, Design Business: Industry Issues & Advice, Freelance Design Work & How to Freelance, HOW Magazine, March 2012 HOW Magazine, Self Promotion for Graphic Design & Designers
Tags: clients, freelance, LinkedIn, marketing, self-promotion
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Find Your Way Through the Tax-Time Maze: 12 Tips for Freelancers
Many creatives have either made the switch to a self-employed freelance designer this past year, or chosen to moonlight. If this describes you, check out these must-see tax tips before you file.









