Freelance Weekly

As a freelancer, I’m sure that it’s your desire to serve your clients to the best of your ability and keep them so happy that they come back to you for more work . (If that’s not your desire then you might want to rethink what you do).

For the most part, people come to you with normal requests and you do them.

If you’re a freelance graphic designer, people come to you looking for graphic design.

If you’re a freelance writer, people come to you looking for content.

Makes sense.

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Backend PHP, Drupal, MySQL DB Developer

DESCRIPTION:

• Saforian is a small, professional creative firm located in Northern Virginia. We are growing our team and looking for a talent.
• Our flexible services focus on high-quality design, standards-based front-end code, and open source back-end development. We have a large variety of clients ranging from non-profits to restaurants to large corporations. Most of our exciting new projects are utilizing Drupal as the core CMS. Your role would be our primary back-end developer on these client sites: configuring Drupal, customizing existing modules, and creating custom ones when needed. You will also help define requirements for new projects, and take the lead in planning and developing new small-to-midsize PHP/MySQL web apps (outside of Drupal) for clients.
• Being a creative firm, you will need to have a decent eye for design and coordinate with our visual and interface designers when developing user-friendly sites.
• We do not have a central office, so you will be able to work independently from home. Preference will given to someone in the DC metropolitan area so we can still meet occasionally. Click here to read more »

Freelance Researchers

DESCRIPTION:

• At Mintel, we are looking to build and develop our network of research consultants around the world who are available to work on a freelance basis, primarily to support commissioned bespoke market intelligence research projects.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Candidates can be located in any major city, but must be fluent in English and have computer and internet access. Freelance Researchers can be expected to undertake a wide variety of tasks and should have existing experience in any of the following disciplines: Click here to read more »

Junior PHP Developer

DESCRIPTION:

• If you liked the challenge of building just about anything with Legos, Lincoln Logs, K’nex or any other blocks when you were a kid – then you’ll probably want to apply to our web developer position at Spitball. As a leading advertising agency in NJ, we have the pleasure of working with a great variety of clients and businesses – which brings with it a great variety of projects. Spitball develops small, local business sites to highly-complex web apps.

REQUIREMENTS: Click here to read more »

photo credit: opensourceway

Welcome back to part three of my interesting conversation with Ali Rowan, professional graphic designer.

Last week in part Two, I shared with you the importance of choosing the right colors for your brand. This week we will take a closer look at what Ali has to say about fine tuning your design. Click here to read more »

Social Media Intern

DESCRIPTION:

YourTango is hiring a social media intern to help mange and grow our presence on the web via social network and bookmarking sites.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Candidates must have strong writing and communication skills, a background in English or Journalism and experience in online media (basic HTML, CMS experience and knowledge of SEO). The social media intern will work directly with the Director of Strategy & Operations, and so will have the opportunity to learn many tips and tricks of the trade. Click here to read more »

I have actually had 2 freelancing careers in my life. The first one wasn’t so successful. As a result, I had to get a corporate marketing job and later I struck out again as a freelancer and enjoyed a far more successful foray into the biz the second time around.

One of the differences (although certainly not the only one) was that I specialized in a specific kind of writing the second time I freelanced.

You see, the first time I tried freelancing I accepted every job, no matter what it was and what industry it was in. And it wasn’t very profitable. I hate to admit it but I did a whole bunch of things and not a great job at any of them. Every new project required me to research new things (and that’s time consuming!). Click here to read more »