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  • What Are Your Personal Values? How to Define & Live by Them (+Video)

    What Are Your Personal Values? How to Define & Live by Them (+Video)

    Andrew Blackman
  • How to Prepare the Best Answers to Any Interview Questions

    How to Prepare the Best Answers to Any Interview Questions

    Charley Mendoza
  • Networking for Introverts: How to Connect With Confidence

    Networking for Introverts: How to Connect With Confidence

    Lisa Hunter

    • All Careers content:

    1. Get Your Money: Best Invoicing Practices for Freelancers

      Get Your Money: Best Invoicing Practices for Freelancers

      Tutorial • Beginner

      As a freelancer, the most important part of your day can be spent sending out invoices. While you might run across a client or two who is happy to send you...

    2. Freelancing 911: Turn Your Business Around with Warm Calls and E-mails

      Freelancing 911: Turn Your Business Around with Warm Calls and E-mails

      Tutorial • Beginner

      This past July, I outlined a five-step process that I’m using to turn my business around. My July article covered cold calls and e-mails, and I suggest...

    3. The Secret to Landing Clients Nearly 100% of the Time

      The Secret to Landing Clients Nearly 100% of the Time

      Tutorial • Beginner

      And How a Little Experiment Turned into a Multi-Million Dollar Enterprise Sure, pushing papers for the Big Boss mortifies us. But every freelancer knows...

    4. 4 Steps to Create a Great Pitch and Sell Your Writing

      4 Steps to Create a Great Pitch and Sell Your Writing

      Tutorial • Beginner

      One of the constant struggles of freelance writing is finding work, and gigs in the print world (and, increasingly, online) require writers to pitch their...

    5. You vs. The Design Firms: How to Win Every Time

      You vs. The Design Firms: How to Win Every Time

      Tutorial • Beginner

      Let's face it, being a freelance designer is just plain tough. In what other arena is one person responsible for answering the phones, balancing the books,...

    6. A Simple Follow Up Formula

      A Simple Follow Up Formula

      Tutorial • Beginner

      On my way home from a conference recently, I sat next to a blonde woman in her mid-40’s wearing matching Prada shoes and bag. From the looks of her, a...

    7. How to Start Charging Your Dream Rates (And Get Away With It)

      How to Start Charging Your Dream Rates (And Get Away With It)

      Tutorial • Beginner

      Are you charging your dream rates yet? If not, why? In this post, I want to explain how you can start charging your dream price for work. I'll also be...

    8. How To Raise Your Rates Without Losing Clients

      How To Raise Your Rates Without Losing Clients

      Tutorial • Beginner

      Do you break into a sweat at the thought of raising your rates and having to tell loyal clients that you're going to have to start charging them more? Is...

    9. How to Get Clients to Come to You

      How to Get Clients to Come to You

      Tutorial • Beginner

      What do you hate most about freelancing? I expect right up there will be either sales or not having enough work. Cold-calling, pitching, struggling to pay...

    10. How To Promote Your Graphic Design Business, Part Two

      How To Promote Your Graphic Design Business, Part Two

      Tutorial • Beginner

      Last week we offered best-practice promotion for all freelance artists. Now let’s examine some ideas for artists who want to go a step further. How can you...

    11. How To Promote Your Graphic Design Business, Part One

      How To Promote Your Graphic Design Business, Part One

      Tutorial • Beginner

      There are three rules of thumb for finding work: Target as many contacts as possible by email, phone, and mail. The law of averages suggests you will find...

    12. The Fine Art Of Telephone Prospecting For Freelancers

      The Fine Art Of Telephone Prospecting For Freelancers

      Tutorial • Beginner

      For many people, telephone prospecting can be a painful process. You know it’s a necessary activity—without it, your work will sooner or later dry up. This...

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