Here we are once again on our quest for the costs to freelancing, and after the reception part 1 received the pressure to really deliver on the next installment was compounding. Luckily, the added pressure just made it that much easier to completely phone this one in! Totally kidding. I really am trying, so if you don’t like it, it’s totally on you.
Make no mistake about it, freelancing is tough work. Angie and I have talked on numerous occasions since setting out on the freelancer’s path, that we have never …

I was once told by someone while I was waiting on them at a restaurant I worked in, that some of the things I appreciated about my job were inconsequential of sorts, because things do not work that way in the real world. I felt disheartened to think that all those years I spent in the restaurant industry were wasted. Living in a world far from the apparent cruel reaches of the real, never being prepared for life outside this bubble of fantasy. But now I’m a freelancer, and I …

When any designer is starting out, the body of work they would normally show off to potential clients to woo and wow them, isn’t exactly there yet. So what’s the poor designer to do? How does one work up a sizable and stunning collection of work? Some say the answer is padding.
Now most people are familiar with some version or another of padding. Some folks pad their paychecks by clocking in too early or waiting to clock out, and letting the time build up while they do nothing. Some …

by Matt Rossi from ifoh designs
Time is, or should be right there at the top of our list of things to pay attention to in our profession. This is especially crucial to those of us who are freelancers. If your are doing a quoted job, the quicker you get done the more you earn per hour, leaving plenty of time to take on more work, and so continues the cycle. Every time we start a new project, we are investing in it along with the clients. We are investing our …

Design is a large field with so many talented people all working hard to get their work out there and in the public’s eye. So many wonderful examples of web ingenuity streaming through the online cyber circuit daily, and many of them attached to burgeoning designers hoping to land some freelance work. Making money through their designs is the dream, and they are not hoping to wake anytime soon. This provides the companies who’d like to use these designers or their work, a wide selection of skillful, creative people to …