When you work as a freelancer, especially in the design and writing field, keeping your inspiration vivid, active and fresh is hard work. You can always get bogged down with work, start panicking, and then lose all sense of inspiration and motivation in the process. Well, to save you from this catastrophe, we’ve put together this article titled ‘How To Stay Inspired And Refreshed As A Freelancer’.
Recently, I stumbled upon a great service called Laptopical - so I decided to do a short review on it.
Overview
Laptopical is a brilliant resource for people who are looking for a new laptop to replace their old, worn machine. It’s for people who live in the US (I’m assuming from the currency symbols), and is great when it comes to looking for honest, solid reviews on what laptops are worth it, and which ones are “not so worth it”. Personally, I’m looking for a new machine to replace my rather old laptop, preferrably something with a good amount of RAM and can run Windows Vista (yes, Windows VISTA) without breaking a sweat - so let’s see how laptopical does in my search for a new laptop.
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As part of the “Send Us a Picture of Your Home Office” series, we’re featuring the home offices of budding freelancers whom submit their office pictures to us. Today we’re looking at Adrian Diaconescu’s new home office.
This is the fourth edition to the Freelance Bootcamp series.
As a freelancer, you’re essentially a “one-man” business - although you may work in partnership with other freelancers (which is what I do) it’s still a lot about yourself, and how you conduct yourself when dealing with clients, deadlines, and the whole shebang. The fact that you’re a single person business does affect branding and establishing yourself as an industry professional quite a bit.
Here are a few tips and tricks to help you on your way of establishing your freelance business.
Over the last couple weeks, a poll has been up with the question “How would you describe Freelancer Magazine?”. I have to say, it has been quite a nerve-racking poll; as I feared that comically a lot of people would vote “Rubbish” as what happens with a lot of polls like this. Let’s see what happened.
