After writing the article about disadvantages of the freelance worker there was people that commented about my pessimistic vision of the situation, and i repeat, this work is for rebel people, nonconformist, ambitious… it has many inconvinients but also many advantages. I wouldn’t change it for any other life style. Now we are going to [...]
Continue reading...4 July 2007
I’m starting to get bored of all those blogs that talk about how good is to work as a freelance designer. It looks like it’s normal to get a salary of 6 numbers, work 4hs a day, and having mega clients that ask for jobs anybody would do even for free. It’s obvious that the [...]
Continue reading...17 June 2007
This might be the most important post i have written until now. Assuming you meet the minimum requirements to be able to work as a freelance designer via internet: you must know english, have a Paypal account, a quality online portfolio… What can we do to get a job? As i said many times the [...]
Continue reading...12 June 2007
Time to take care of those legal issues that worry us, i will show the model of a confidentiality contract (plus many other things) for freelance designers. The second one is a contract exclusive for author rights or copyright. You can use them as templates; you can always add or take the clauses you need [...]
Continue reading...24 May 2007
In this article we are going to talk about what you need to start your freelance designer job without dying in the process. Of course your designs must have a good quality, and you must want to do this job perfectly… but what else do you need? As you can see, this is a guide; [...]
Continue reading...13 May 2007
In this article we are going to skip the designing tools and focus in the procedure we follow in SOSFactory when creating a Design by Order (for example a mascot design). We do everything via internet, communication, payment, sending files… this is our business model, the one we will be talking about here. Contacting the Client [...]
Continue reading...5 May 2007
Briefing is a communication instrument between the designer and the client in form of key questions to know their needs at the time of designing any product by order. It will save you time, money and misfortunes. To give the Briefing is the first this you should do, even before the estimate… If you don’t [...]
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