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Since FreelanceSwitch started, there is one question that I get asked more often than any other. How can a freelancer find more work and generate new client leads? Well at FreelanceSwitch we don’t shy away from the pressing questions. So as the kicker for a new series on how to get more freelance work, we have put together an enormous list of ideas, ranging from ones that take 10 seconds to 10 days. And now without further ado, here they are, your 101 ideas: Word of Mouth is The Go Enlist your family and friends to spread the word about your services Send out an email to everyone in your address book, announcing what you do, where you are and what you can offer Ask your satisfied clients for referrals Offer free consultations to new referrals Consider a referral or finders fee Love Those Clients Get in touch with past and current clients when you have a new service to offer them Get in touch with past and current clients when you have completed a flagship project Start a newsletter Talk the Talk

26 Useful Tips and Tricks for Freelancers Freelancing is by no means easy. You are given responsibility of your own future, your own earnings, to choose who and what you want to work for; but this responsibility comes with a whole set of unique challenges in itself. You’re in charge of your own future, so if you make a mistake, you’re the only one to blame. So how do we tackle these challenges? 1) Be detail specific. 2) Communicate regularly. 3) Try not to use email. 5) Take a down-payment. 6) Have a client database. 7) Have all briefs documented. 8) Professional Communication. 9) Signatures. 10) Don’t speak gibberish. 11) Use detailed invoices. 12) Beginning Work. 13) Reply in a timely manner. 14) Have a separate email address. 15) Have set working hours. 16) Have set working areas. 17) Project Timing. 18) Rounding hours. 19) Structured Work Times. 20) Computer safety. 21) Backups. 22) Chair. 23) Buy a whiteboard. 24) Inject some color. 25) Be tidy. 26) Positioning.

7 Productivity Tips, Plus Tools for Freelancers and Web Workers Elliott Kosmicki is the founder of GoodPlum.com - a productivity and personal development blog for home business owners. You can also follow Elliott on Twitter. You know you can be better. We all can. It's the reason productivity and personal development has made such a surge in recent years. Competition is higher than ever for these freelancers, so how do you begin to rise to the top? Big Problems, Small Solutions The repercussions of our productivity problems are huge. 1. Many freelancers tend to try and plan in their heads. Mindmeister, my favorite online mind-mapping software, can be easily used to organize all levels of thought and action. Evernote, the leader in portable notes, can allow you to record thoughts, plans and even images from anywhere. A to-do list can be essential for you to stay on task, if you decide to make it part of your method. 2. If you're one of the many who has hundreds of emails in their inbox, you're probably losing hours of productive time each week. 3. 4.

Jordi Vinaixa: "En Internet hay mucho dinero, pero no est c Fiscalidad y empresa | 12/02/2010 - 01:30h | Última actualización: 15/02/2010 - 20:45h La crisis ha hecho caer en el desánimo a más de un emprendedor, pero a pesar del mal momento que atraviesa la economía, aún es posible encontrar "una ventana medio abierta" o "un océano azul". Con estos términos el profesor Jordi Vinaixa se refiere a las posibilidades de un mercado donde, si bien es difícil encontrar un paraíso, todavía nos podemos topar con algún oasis. Actualmente, Vinaixa dirige el proyecto "From Science to Business" del Instituto de Iniciativa Emprendedora (IIE) de Esade. - ¿La juventud de hoy en día tiene espíritu emprendedor? - ¿Cómo convertir una idea en un negocio redondo? - Lo difícil es encontrar la fórmula- El primer paso es preguntarse: ¿Por qué alguien compraría mi producto? - - En el mundo de la empresa existe el concepto de "ventana de oportunidad". - ¿Hay muchos mares azules por descubrir? - ¿Para poner en marcha un negocio, es mejor la experiencia o la juventud?

25 Awesome Tips to Become a Successful Freelancer | Graphic and Being a freelancer means a lot of freedom to plan your own days at work, but it also does require discipline and planning. Being your own boss, you need to be good at making the right rules to succeed. Most of these tips sound just like common sense, but actually remembering everything when it’s needed isn’t necessarily as easy as you would think. Different rules work for different people. 1. This should be the first thing you do. 2. Allow yourself an hour or so at the beginning of each work week, or the last hour of the previous week to plan the upcoming week. Picture by Hilde Vanstraelen 3. Starting up as a freelancer can be challenging economically, and by choosing from all available and good free software you can save a lot of costs without necessarily having to give up a lot of functionality. 4. To look professional and catch those potential clients in a tight market, requires hard work when it comes to branding yourself. 5. 6. Picture by Claudio Sepulveda Geoffroy 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

Why As a freelancer you should use twitter This is a great insight to why as a designer you should choose to use one of the most powerful social media tools around for designers twitter. Every one shares their personal findings from around the web Twitter is an essential tool which should be used by every designer and even web designers or web developers. Using Twitter for marketing One aspect of twitter which I admire and really enjoy is that twitter can be used as a tool to help market your brand, portfolio or blog. Personal Branding Twitter can be used to build an online presence all what you need to do is tweet good interesting tweets which you feel other people may be interested within reading, then over a period of time you will notice an increase within people who would like to follow you. Networking And building friendships Tracking Daily day to day activates Final Thoughts