freelance advice

Why small businesses can learn a lot from water

| Lifestyle & Time out

Some may call it a horribly and painfully strung out metaphor, others may accept it as genuine business wisdom: “Successful small businesses have a lot in common with water.”

Let’s run with this stream of thought.

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How to get a job at a top creative agency

| Getting a Job

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

| 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

| Getting a Job

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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