A few weeks ago, a friend of mine gave me one of those personality tests that tells you what “color” you are: blue, green, gold, or orange. Well, let’s just say I scored high on the side of lists and all things organizational. As such, you can only imagine how thrilled I was when I heard of Filemaker’s ridiculously detailed database software application Bento 3. Named after those Japanese Bento boxes that compartmentalize food, Bento (the software) puts all your information where it should be—heck, it was almost too much organization for me! Click here to read more »
One of the advantages of being freelancers is the ability to set our own schedules—sure we have deadlines, but it’s up to us how we meet those deadlines. Sounds simple enough, but sometimes we forget about other people and how THEIR calendars may affect our deadlines—church groups, writing groups, family events, even teams of writers we collaborate or work with. Convenient Calendar aims to solve scheduling conflicts and share information by allowing groups of people to access centralized calendars—this lets you and all the people you know in any particular group: Click here to read more »
Freelancing is a great business to get into because the expenses are low so it’s easy to start. All you really need is a computer and the right programs to do the kind of freelancing that you need to do. Easy! As long as you get a few clients and can deliver your work through email, it’s all good; nothing else is needed. But eventually you’ll start to branch out. You might want to offer: Click here to read more »
Freelancers of all types are called upon to provide feedback on customers’ existing web assets. Freelance web designers might need to reflect on the design; freelance internet marketers might need to review onsite SEO; freelance copywriters might need to review existing content. These reviews often occur on their own even though they could be done much faster and far more effectively if they are done together. Click here to read more »
As a freelancer, you might end up showcasing your work on your blog or website, which makes sense, but there are times when you want to showcase it elsewhere. For example if your site design isn’t conducive to the kind of work you want to display or if you want to use your site for providing value while you save your self-promotion for your portfolio and/or CV.
So in this blog post, I want to give you a few different places that you might consider to post your portfolio or CV for prospective clients.
- Drop.io is a free, easy-to-use site that lets you upload many different kinds of content and configure the site to display your work freely or via a password. There’s a fair amount of storage, too: 100Mbs. This is a good place for visual artists, writers, and designers.
- Carbonmade seems a little weird when you first click there but once you check out the portfolios it’s better. This is the place for visual freelancers like illustrators and photographers. Click here to read more »
As you’ve heard me complain from time to time, there are only 24 hours in a day. That’s fine if your hourly rate is tens of thousands of dollars an hour but for most freelancers it isn’t. So to make more money, you need to augment the time you spend writing by selling something that doesn’t take you time to do after someone has bought it. Creating and selling digital products through Clickbank is one way to augment your income.
Understanding Clickbank Click here to read more »
By now I am sure you have seen that Freelance Weekly has been undergoing some design changes, it has also been undergoing some content planning changes as well.
Our most popular Category is our Saas Reviews and we want to make sure it is on-target and accurate, so that we can continue to provide excellent content.
That being said we are taking a brief hiatus from the reviews and will be coming back stronger than ever in about two weeks.
In the meantime we are accepting review requests, which can be requested by completing our review request form.
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About: Citrix Online is a fast-growing division of Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS), based in Santa Barbara, California, with satellite offices and data centers around the world. GoToMeeting is a Web conferencing tool that allows you to meet online rather than in a conference room. It’s the easiest and most cost-effective way to organize and attend online meetings. Patented technology enables co-workers, customers and prospects to view any application running on your PC in real time. With the flexibility to meet in person or online, you’ll be able to do more and travel less. 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.
