freelance advice

How to get a job at a top creative agency

Michael Rose | Marketing Yourself

This is smart. Really smart.

Watching this quick, two-minute video gave me a few quick ideas about how to go about getting the attention of the right people. This guy spent just $6 on advertising and managed to land a plum job in a top US design agency.

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Link list: Grand Designs, Shed-working & Receipts

Michael Rose | Lifestyle & Time out

Dribble.com – what are you working on?: Part game, part forum, part image library designers will find a lot of inspiration here and, if you’re really inspired you can bounce a piece of work to riff off the creation and join discussions about how to code the design in CSS — design geeks will LOVE it.

Shedworking.co.uk: Garden offices look set to become the next big thing in backyards this summer and with some beautiful off-the-lorry designs if you’ve got some money to throw at the problem it needn’t involve to much DIY.

Keebo promise to have your receipts online within 72 hours and offer a no quibble 90 day money back guarantee if you want to try their new service.

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Do you follow? Freelance Advice on Twitter

Michael Rose | Managing Business

Freelance Advisor is on Twitter And you can follow us here. If you’ve not yet joined the twittering classes then you’re missing out on the latest social networking phenomenon – according to TwitDir, the unofficial Twitter Directory, there are now over 3,000,000 users and the Twitterverse is still growing. If you’ve used Facebook and their Status [...]

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