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…

Seven low cost ways for freelancers to get noticed

February 29, 2016 in Growing your freelance business, PR, Tips and tools

Freelancing is a great way to achieve the work life balance and expand your personal freedom. However, there are some drawbacks to freelancing, such as irregular work and a less reliable pay cheques. Likewise, if you’re used to corporate advertising budgets, your new budget is going to come as a shock. So, how do you…

How to be heard as a freelancer

September 21, 2015 in Freelancers, PR, Tips and tools

It’s a pretty isolating gig being a freelancer. The water cooler conversations are few and far between given most days you’re in a home office space, where many freelance writers and other creatives tend to sit at a desk. Alone. Work does not come pouring through that laptop screen by osmosis, sad to say. Being…

Need a confidence boost? Here’s 5 tips from a confidence coach for you.

September 10, 2015 in Freelancers, PR, The Freelance Collective, Tips and tools

So many creative freelancers work alone, either tucked away in a cafe, home office, an agency surrounded by people they don’t really know, or a co-working space with people working on unrelated projects. It can be isolating. So, we felt a confidence boost might be in order, so asked an expert what might help bolster…

Do I really need PR as a freelancer?

June 27, 2015 in PR

Freelancing is awesome. Being your own boss, working with who you want and doing your own thang is fab. That’s why you set up as a freelancer in the first place.