90. Red Flag Warning Signs Freelancers Should Not Ignore
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Some warning signs freelancers tend to overlook because they want the project.
89. Detours Are Not Your Destiny
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Detours prepare and train you for your greater work. Many freelance creatives deal with having to do things to pay the bills while we’re developing
How To Care For Your Suppliers
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Take the same level of care in nurturing your vendor relationships as you take with your client relationships. No freelancer ever does a project entirely
Why Strategy Trumps Tactics
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Freelance creatives utilize both tactics and strategy to drive their businesses forward. Independent creatives are known to seek out quick-win tips and tactics to fix
Your Client Is Not Your Enemy
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How to navigate the Problem Client Ever have a client relationship turn sideways or go south? If you’ve been freelancing awhile you’ve likely experienced when
A Mindset Reset: Artist To Owner
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Reasons why we choose independence instead of employment, and how to start. How do you start freelancing? A Gallup–Upwork poll discovered there are around 57M
Use Creative Briefs To Build Trust
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Are you using a creative brief in your project development process? The creative brief helps your clients trust you better for a variety of reasons. In this episode I share what a brief is and how your client relationships and freelance business can benefit by using them.
Cultivating Limitless Success
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Succeeding as a freelance creative begins with how you think. How you think affects how well you do creatively and business-wise. What you think either hinders or promotes. We all struggle with limiting beliefs and negative thinking, but we don’t have to embrace them. In this episode I share for your consideration a mindset shift through the analogy of gardening and farming. This may make a difference for you if you’re struggling as a freelance creative.
Budgeting Smarts for Freelance Creatives
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How to budget on a feast-or-famine income Money is a necessary tool in business and life, and freelancers can embrace the budgeting process creatively. Budgeting
Things They Don’t Teach You In Design School
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What you need to know to succeed as a creativepreneur Talent, passion and a portfolio will get you through school, but you can’t build a
Should Freelancers Work With Friends and Family?
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Balancing business and friendship. Friends and family should not be in your “ideal client” description. Why? Because all sorts of unexpected things happen that can
Aesthetics, Your Clients, and You
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Book review and remarks about “Aesthetic Intelligence: How To Boost It and Use It in Business and Beyond” by Pauline Brown. A book review and
Freelancers, Don’t Fall For This Scam!
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Indy creatives are targeted with projected inquiry scams. Scammers are highly creative in who and how they target. No one is exempt. This -creative project
Self-Promotion Strategies for Freelance Creatives
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DOWNLOAD EPISODE 42 4 Things to consider in your marketing strategy. A strategy-level discussion about reach, frequency, momentum, and risk as an all around approach
Alvalyn Lundgren
Hi! I'm Alvalyn. I'm the founder of Freelance Road Trip and host of the Freelance Road Trip podcast. I'm a designer, illustrator and educator. I send out a free newsletter of tips and tools to help creative freelancers build lasting, fulfilling businesses.
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