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Contract Worker - Freelancing Experiences

Archive for January 2007

January 31st, 2007

Infusion Cooking and Why It Helps Freelancers

Either you’ve got several projects to finish by tomorrow, or you can’t be bothered taking your time cooking meals. You love what you’re doing, and eating near your equipment isn’t recommended. Not to mention being responsible for feeding everyone can take up too much of your busy schedule.
But you still need to eat. Eat fast, […]

By Rico -- 2 comments

January 30th, 2007

What Gets You Through the Tough Times

There will be times when it seems no one wants any projects done, and your cash on hand is running low. Times when you’re forced to spend your savings on bare necessities, instead of using them to create money-making assets.
You can minimize the impact of these lean times by building a network of old reliables. […]

By Rico -- 1 comment

January 29th, 2007

What Contract Worker Considers “Freelancing”

This blog is about freelancing. We already know where the word came from, but there are differing opinions of what it means. Strictly speaking, a freelancer’s involvement with a company is only for one specific job. Neither full- nor part-time. But, for the purposes of this blog, even part-time commitments fall under the scope of […]

By Rico -- 0 comments

January 28th, 2007

An Easy Way to Stay Awake

So you’re feeling sleepy. Doing what you love is great, but work is still work. And if you work at home, it’s soooo easy to head for the nearest bed, kick off your shoes, and rest your sleepy head on the wonderfully soft pillow. Especially if you’re losing sleep to meet a deadline.
Sometimes we need […]

By Rico -- 5 comments

January 26th, 2007

On Challenges and What’s Important

If you’re afraid that you’re in over your head, if you feel like the challenge is too great for you, know that you’re on the right path:
If you don’t feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn’t very […]

By Rico -- 0 comments

January 25th, 2007

Avoiding the Temptations of Home: Using the Great Home Office Effectively

So now you’ve set-up your home office. You’re ready to start getting the job done and avoid the temptations of home!
Well, not quite. The home office is set up to minimize distractions. Now make sure everything’s at hand.
In the office (yes dear readers, I’m a corporate drone and a freelancer), my department (marketing) got the […]

By Rico -- 3 comments

January 24th, 2007

What’s More Important than Creativity

Freelancers are usually brought in to provide new solutions to old problems. Which is why companies are willing to pay a lot for prodigiously creative talent. But there’s another reason why these contract workers are in great demand: their consistency.
Clients can depend on these Freelancing Gods not only for their inspired output, but that the […]

By Rico -- 2 comments

January 23rd, 2007

Why it’s Worth Paying Big Bucks for a Good Freelancer

Bart Cleveland writes about how to “Improve Your Agency With Key Freelancers“:
[Ernie Schenck’s] wares aren’t cheap for a small agency like mine, but well worth the short amount of time I could afford. A few weeks of developing a key approach with Ernie was not only great fun, it resulted in a defining campaign for […]

By Rico -- 1 comment

January 22nd, 2007

Having It Easy Makes it Hard

Losing motivation? You’re probably forgetting how lucky you are. How easily things come for you. It’s a natural reaction, when everything’s going your way.
Maybe you need to see how hard it is for some people. Like how they can’t seem to get a decent job when you did on your first try. Or how they […]

By Rico -- 3 comments

January 21st, 2007

Why I Love Vector Art

Let’s start with a definition:
“Vector graphics or geometric modeling is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and polygons to represent images in computer graphics.”
Or, in layman’s terms, vector art are drawings based on a bunch of shapes. You’re basically giving the computer instructions on how to render these shapes, such as […]

By Rico -- 5 comments

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