As a freelancer, one of the benes is often times being able to work from home or wherever your fancy takes you. We all know there are some days that heading out to the office is just not in the cards.
Until recently, using the handy dandy screen share feature offered through Skype was the way to go for those “don’t want to leave the house” kind of days. Until we wanted to use the screen share with a few people in a conference call. Turns out that option isn’t available if there are more than two people in on the Skype call.
Enter Join Me! to save the day! Click here to read more »
Social Media is the newest and least inexpensive form of marketing. However, it can also be very time consuming. To be successful in the social media game you must be active and present at all hours of the day to fit all of your potential client’s schedules. Most freelancers begin their social media campaign and maintain focus, but many find that after just a few days that it is impossible to keep up with tweets along with all of your other marketing and project obligations. Cotweet.com helps take the time consuming daily upkeep out of Twitter and Facebook.
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To be honest, I do not send very many faxes anymore. Back in the days before the internet and email this was a great technology, allowing people to transmit documents of nearly any size across town or across the world in mere minutes.
Assuming the document was not too big.
And the receiving machine was on.
And it had paper loaded.
And toner. And…. Click here to read more »
Social media – from Facebook to Twitter and everything in between – does have value for businesses if used correctly. Companies need to find the right audience and deliver high value messages to them, but they need to do more: Social media is about engagement, not JUST marketing. Therefore, businesses using social media need to interact with their audience at increasingly deeper levels. In yesterday’s business, it was enough to interact with a customer over the phone when they were ready to buy. Today, businesses need to build relationships with customers that are deeper and longer lasting: In Twitter, this means reading and retweeting what your prospects are saying. In Facebook, this means “liking” their statuses, commenting on photos, sharing links, and more. Click here to read more »
As a writer, I read A LOT. In order to find something to write about, it is often necessary to do research on the subject. I do not know everything (please do not tell my kids). Most of my reading is done online, but I cannot always be in front of a computer. For those times when I am standing in line, riding in the car, etc. I use my smartphone (typing on the computer is one of the few times it is not in my hand). Today I am going to share two great resources for reading articles away from the computer: Instapaper and Calibre. Both help you read articles away from the computer, but in very different ways.
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Back in the old days, when someone was in the market for a particular service they just asked a few friends for a suggestion or picked up the yellow pages. Now, with the internet opening so many other options for services, it can be easy to get lost in the crowd. What can you do to find the best location for you to attract the optimal client base? Click here to read more »
In our June 28 Market Yourself; we talked about your management skills possibly affecting your marketability. Time management is one of the needed requirements to keeping yourself and your business on track and at its best. Here are a few of our favorite tools to assist you in the sometimes overwhelming task of organization. Click here to read more »
They say a picture is worth a thousand words so sometimes freelancers need to provide a picture with their content to clarify, illuminate, or capture attention. But where do you get pictures from and, more importantly, where can you get pictures from that won’t result in a rabid lawyer hunting you down and suing your freelancing pants off for copyright infringement.
There are paid and free options of varying quality and you can read about some of them on Freelance Weekly. But one of my favorite go-to sources is Flickr. Flickr offers many different licenses for you to use some of their user-generated content. Click here to read more »
Freelancing is my life. It's what I know, it's what I'm good at, and I can't imagine doing anything else. You can call me "Freddie the Freelancer"… because I'd prefer not to use my real name for reasons that I'll tell you about in a moment.
