5 mistakes freelancers make when quoting for jobs

September 8, 2015 in Freelancers, Tips and tools

When a client is making a decision about who to work with on a creative project, many things come into play. Such as: Portfolio of work on your website – Whether they like your style of work. Previous client list – Are they impressed with this? Personality – Whether they feel a connection with you…

How Qwilr can help your freelance business

September 3, 2015 in Project management, Uncategorized

Qwilr was built to combine the best of documents, with the best parts of the web. Today, the platform is being used by thousands of freelancers and creatives around the world — for quoting freelance work, developing proposals, creating resumes, and if you’d believe it, even writing fan-fiction. There is no limit to the way…

Client contracts 101 for freelancers

August 31, 2015 in Freelancers, The Freelance Collective

Disclosure: I am not a lawyer! The following post is a compilation of my own research, experience, and conversations with those who know a lot more about contract law than I do. There’s no easy way to say this, so I’m not going to be sugar-coating this blog post: you need to cover your ass…

Why boundaries are important as a freelancer

August 28, 2015 in Freelancers

Freelancing is great. It gives you freedom to work when and where you want, and can offer you that all elusive “balance” you have been looking for…however, it can eat up your life and your time too if you don’t set boundaries and stick to them. When I first started freelancing, my phone was by…

Why are you pretending you’re not a freelancer?

August 17, 2015 in The Freelance Collective

Trying to appear bigger than you really are by calling your freelance business some sort of incorporated name doesn’t make sense to us. You’re a graphic designer and you mostly work alone, but rather than call a spade a spade, you give your company a big fancy name, use the word ‘us’ a lot in…

The Freelance Collective has launched

August 5, 2015 in The Freelance Collective

Welcome! The Freelance Collective has arrived. We’re a brand new concept in Australia – the first database of its kind that’s launched at a time when digital technology and changing approaches to the concept of work has resulted in a huge rise in the number of freelancers hitting the market. We launched early July, 2015.…

Top 5 project management tools you need

August 5, 2015 in Freelancers, Project management

Project management will make a real difference in your business and to your clients. It doesn’t have to be hard, as a single freelancer adding process to your business is easy. It also doesn’t have to include Gantt charts, fishbone charts and critical path analysis flow diagrams.

What my first 1,000 clients taught me about website design

July 21, 2015 in Website design

When I think about how green I was with my first client website exactly 12.7 years ago, I’m truly humbled by how far we’ve come. I had butterflies big time. “What if I stuff it up?” “What if it doesn’t work?” “What if they don’t like it?” And more importantly, “Where the hell do I…

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