December 2010
16 posts
Tis the Season for Suggestions from Family →
Though the holiday season reminds us of many wonderful things, peace on Earth and good will seems shattered for most the minute family walks through the door. If not a visit, the annual phone…
Dec 22nd
How to Write in Your Client’s Voice →
credit: anonymouscollective on Flickr When the CEO of a large corporation motivates employees with a company-wide presentation, some of the impact derives directly from the CEO’s…
Dec 21st
Linkswitch #48: Estimates & Homemade Gifts →
The Holiday Season Slow-Down: The Importance of “Making a List” As the holiday season begins, your freelance business may seem like its ending. There are two schools of thought…
Dec 19th
Ask FreelanceSwitch #24: Student freelancing,... →
In this issue of Ask FreelanceSwitch, we look at transitioning from student work to freelancing and blogging about your work. Ask FreelanceSwitch is a regular column here that allows us to…
Dec 16th
The Holiday Season Slow-Down: The Importance of... →
Credit: Cordey on Flickr As the holiday season begins, your freelance business may seem like its ending. There are two schools of thought about end of the year work: You either have a…
Dec 15th
Everything I Know About Freelancing I Learned from... →
There’s something about skinny white men prancing about that just screams “business acumen.” And if there was any band more white or more prancy than WHAM!, I haven’t found it yet. So here…
Dec 10th
The Skills Necessary to Administer a Freelance... →
Photo credit: Kumar Appaiah/Flickr When you first start out as a freelancer, your most important skills are those creative abilities that you can directly transform in paid work….
Dec 9th
Networking: Hang Out with Your Clients, Not Just... →
Credit: jremick/Flickr. As freelancers, we have many ways to interact with our peersto help us keep abreast of new ideas and emerging trends. We network with others like ourselves for…
Dec 8th
How to Build a Successful Blog Business: Rockable... →
Blogging has been around for a few years now and probably even your Grandma has heard about it or perhaps even tried her hand at it. But while blogging has become a rather simple pastime,…
Dec 7th
Meet the AppStorm Blogs →
Two years ago we started a little side project to review and roundup apps. Being bloggers, a kick-ass WordPress setup was the natural way to go. My little brother threw in a great idea for a name,…
Dec 7th
Freelance Freedom #185: Manual Feeding →
Dec 7th
Linkswitch #46: Reputation, Marketing, Secret... →
Google Insurance: 8 Steps to Protect Your Reputation It doesn’t take much to set off a tsunami of public relations headaches in the digital world. As the last 12 months have…
Dec 5th
Freelancer’s Guide to Coffee – Part 3: The... →
Photo credit: visualpanic on Flickr This week we wrap up our Freelancer’s guide to coffee with a look at the percolator and some final words about this wonderful beverage. Our journey…
Dec 3rd
25 Awesome Redesigns of a 90’s Website →
A few weeks back, in partnership with Adobe Catalyst Business, we held a contest to redesign a fictional pizza business website, currently in all it’s 90’s glory. We had a huge number of…
Dec 2nd
Ask FreelanceSwitch #23: Identity Theft and Scope... →
Editor’s Note: Due to time commitments, Travis King will unfortunately no longer be writing answers for the AskFreelanceSwitch column. However, Thursday Bram will continue to hand out…
Dec 2nd
25 Unusual Places to Get Design Inspiration →
Credit: photo by by Phantasy Photo on Flickr One of the most frustrating situations you can encounter as a freelance designer is when you’re all ready to go but the ideas just aren’t…
Dec 1st