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Five sites for monitoring your brand online

November 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Look who’s talking: Monitoring buzz on the web
As a freelance community builder and co-director of TheWerks web-socialite Rosie Sherry offers advice on monitoring your brand and filtering out the noise.
Five sites for monitoring your brand online
There’s no denying that the web holds huge amount of information. Most of it irrelevant to you or I, however […]

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Tags: Contractors · Freelancers · Managing your time · Networking

Marketing yourself as a freelance designer: Six simple tips for your CV and portfolio

November 5th, 2008 · 8 Comments

The death of the CV?
Are curriculum vitae a thing of the past? Guest blogger Greg Coley, Creative Director of the integrated agency VGroup, gives an insider’s view on what freelance designers can do to get noticed.
Marketing yourself as a freelance designer
So you’re a budding young designer straight out of university, a middleweight, an established creative […]

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Tags: Freelancers · Marketing · Starting Out · Winning new business!

Pitch Yourself into the Freelance Market - Part 3

August 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment

In part one and part two we looked at the marketing process and what you are actually employed for, e.g. the way you think respectively.
Today we look at how to identify the unique features of product, you.
Understanding the product - You, Your Abilities, Competencies & Transferable Assets
Many of us realise that every interview has […]

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Tags: Contractors · Freelancers · Winning new business!

Pitch yourself into the Freelance Market

July 28th, 2008 · No Comments

In this series, Bill Faust, author of Pitch Yourself, shares insights gained from over 30-years of industry experience. He discusses key factors for effective self-marketing, understanding what self-marketing means, reading your future employers’ desires and definining clearly what you, the product, have to offer.
This three-part series will take you from knowing you need to […]

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Tags: Contractors · Freelancers · Winning new business!

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