I have been obsessed with the movie Fight Club ever since it hit the big screen. During a late night viewing of the movie the other night, it hit me that the basic rules of Fight Club can teach us a lot about the business of freelancing. Think I’m joking? Check out [...]
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The Secret to Increasing Referrals
The best kind of advertising any freelancer can do is to build up a reputation via word of mouth. This type of advertising in great, not only because it is free, but it usually comes with referral from a past customer. Combine a personal referral and a killer portfolio and you can [...]
Todoodlist Review
Have you ever thought to yourself, “My to do list is just too boring! How can I actually keep up with something that looks so frightfully drab?” Or perhaps you have tried endless possibilities for organizing your daily routine and tasks and can’t seem to get one that motivates you. Do you forget things even [...]
Free and Cheap Legal Support for Designers
Good legal advice is an invaluable tool. Unfortunately, good legal advice is too expensive for the freelance designer. Have no fear though, there are a number of sites and businesses online that can help you with your legal woes and offer some advice. Many of the sites listed below have are either [...]
Small Business Accounting with Quickbooks: A Designers Review
This post is by one of our readers, Bradley Jensen, at Reflection Studios
I’ve been running a small design firm for about 3 years now. We have been running Quickbooks since the beginning. Quickbooks does far more than what we use it for, but it does well with “the basics” for us.
Accounting Basics for Designers
I recently read a great post on Freelance Switch about accounting basics. Its is a great article and certainly worth a look, you can read it here. While the article covers the basics as far as what you should be doing to keep track of your accounting; I wanted to elaborate on [...]
Freshbooks Review
Recently I started revamping my design company from a part time hobby to a full time business. As a result, I need to find more professional means of conducting business. I needed something that could invoice clients, send more professional proposals, and keep track of it. I heard a lot of buzz [...]
10 Bad Habits of Designers
All too often we sacrifice our time and skills just to make an extra buck. While it might get us a few bucks now, is it really worth it in the long run? Not only do we as freelance designer sometimes sell ourself short to our clients, but sometimes we have [...]
Link Love: Entrepreneurship
A collection of articles from around the web that focus on running a small business and being an entrepreneur. If you know any other good articles that focus on this topic, feel free to add links in the comment section.
