Here’s how to tackle your marketing as a freelance graphic designer

September 30, 2016 in Freelancers, Growing your freelance business, PR, The Freelance Collective

Your freelance graphic design career is going to take a pretty significant nose-dive if you don’t invest a bit of time and energy into getting found. It’s fundamental to landing works, but it also remains an element of freelancing that lots of us have an ‘ick’ factor about. Self-promotion is embarrassing. Lame. It’s bragging. And…

This is the real reason your freelancer is so motivated and eager to please

September 22, 2016 in Freelancers

“Whatever you think; you’re the expert,” my new boss said in my first week on the job. It was 2003 and I’d only been working in marketing and PR for a few years, so being recognised as an ‘expert’ was a new and exciting idea for my ‘words of affirmation’ soul. Like many Aussies before…

How to find and hire a talented Australian creative freelancer

September 8, 2016 in Freelancers, Growing your freelance business

The benefits of outsourcing a creative project to a specialist freelancer are endless for business owners. Firstly, you don’t have to delegate the task to a staff member who might not be the most skilled person for the job. You’re also freeing up internal resources to focus on their own role. And outsourcing to a…

Here’s how freelancers can improve their work space

August 22, 2016 in Freelancers

Your work space defines your production levels. It also determines your output and also the overall performance. Having too many distractions or missing out some necessary elements in your work space may adversely affect your production. So here’s a few tips on how to improve your work space. Particularly for those Aussie freelancers working from…

Media Super partnership to foster small business mentality among creative freelancers

August 12, 2016 in Growing your freelance business, The Freelance Collective

Media Super, the industry super fund for creatives, has partnered with The Freelance Collective in an inspiring show of support for the growing number of Australian professional creatives setting out on their own freelance path. The two organisations will be working together to support Australian creatives, representing an exciting milestone for The Freelance Collective. The…

5 questions to ask before saying yes to that new client

August 11, 2016 in Freelancers, Growing your freelance business

A new client: “YAY!”. But before we jump on board and get all excited about the new client we have to land, it does not hurt as a Freelancer to ask ourselves: “Is this client right for me?” I remember when I started out years ago jumping for joy at every new opportunity that came…

Accounts. Why is it all so hard for freelancers?

July 7, 2016 in Freelancers, Growing your freelance business

Ugh. Accounts. Why is it all so hard? As a career freelancer, this was a question I found myself asking at least once every three months when tackling my quarterly BAS and even moreso when faced with End of Financial Year taxes. Usually I’d be surrounded by faded taxi receipts, digging through my email, and…

Here’s how The Freelance Collective can bolster your freelance career

June 20, 2016 in Freelancers, The Freelance Collective

Australian freelance business journalist & wordsmith Nina Hendy has been giving interviews about the launch of The Freelance Collective. As a marketing and business journalist who has written for all the major publications and brands over the years, she was inspired to launch The Freelance Collective to make it easier for clients to find the…

5 Ways A VA Can Save The Day!

June 1, 2016 in Freelancers, Growing your freelance business, Outsourcing, The Freelance Collective, Tips and tools

As a business owner, manager or entrepreneur you are no doubt wearing many fancy hats to ensure your biz flourishes. Being the superstar that you are, you can achieve a million and one things in one day and still have time for a 10km run and a 5pm martini. You’re a multi-tasker and ain’t no…

Wellness and the freelancer

May 28, 2016 in Freelancers, The Freelance Collective, Tips and tools

ARE YOU AT YOUR BEST? As a freelancer, you may find yourself working long hours to tight deadlines for clients who change the brief last minute and who don’t really understand what goes on behind the scenes. Although you do your best to adapt and deliver, this takes a toll on your mind and your…

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