#freelancing

[financeprincess]

I love Tumblr and Pinterest and YouTube but you seriously need to get off your phone as much as possible if you want to make actual changes. Stop the doom scrolling. Turn off notifications. Turn on DND. Log off. Delete apps. Delete accounts altogether. Unsubscribe from texts and emails. Put time limits on the apps on your phone. Unless social media is making you money, limit it as much as possible. Overloading yourself with information is just another form of procrastination. At some point you actually have to take action. Less consumption, more creation.

#this helps with anxiety too #that’s why I’ve been gone I’ve been out here working #studying #freelancing #building a business #working out #networking #reading #writing #working on my passions #you gotta get after it if you wanna win babes

[terastalungrad]

It's been a while since I shared any of my writing on this platform, so here's a piece I'm extremely proud of.

It's an email:

Checking my account, this invoice still hasn't been paid. I wonder if we could establish a system where these can be paid on time, rather than when I notice they haven't been?

#creative writing #freelancing

[femmefatalevibe]

Femme Fatale Guide: Top Career Tips To Set Yourself Up For Success

Figure out where your skills and passions align. Then determine the lifestyle/work culture you thrive in and what sacrifices you're willing to make in your chosen career path (for some, it's always traveling/talking to people 24/7, working late hours, unpredictable/unconventional hours, potentially lower pay/less predictable income, etc.). It truly depends on your top values, your personality, and your goals/priorities in life.

First focus on getting incredibly talented at your craft. Find a mentor(s) who will push you with their feedback/suggestions. Take classes/skills courses/read books & articles to gain more applicable knowledge/hard skills. Join clubs, apply to internships, volunteer, and request informational interviews in your desired field.

Make your skills marketable. Create a professional resume and/or neat portfolio/collection of work samples. Discover and articulate your USP (that should essentially serve as the backbone of your elevator pitch). Frame your skills through a customer/business-centric lens. How does your experience/skillset solve their problems and help a company/client achieve their goals?

Build a network for yourself. Don't be shy to reach out to companies/individuals who inspire you. Speak with your secondary school teachers and professors for connections. Create peer-to-peer networks, too, so you can grow together. Be a fearless networker and connector. Help others, do favors, and make the person glad they met/hired you. Make it your objective to be memorable through your work ethic/providing high-quality work products and showing up with a motivated & overall positive attitude allows people to like and trust you with their time, clients, money, etc.

Master the art of a killer email/cold pitch. Especially in today's world, learning how to sell yourself through intriguing emails/LinkedIn messages is the key to unlocking potential success. One client or opportunity can create momentum that will be useful years down the line, too.

When in doubt, follow up – on an email, pitch, job opportunity, connection, etc.

Be ruthless and relentless with your research. For new contacts, connections, opportunities, and information to support your pitches/job interviews/networking conversations, new technologies, and trends within your field. Read everything credible you can get your hands on. Display working knowledge and practical applications of these concepts and how they can benefit the person in front of you/their business.

Create systems. For how you structure emails/pitches, conduct research, different types of workflows/ work template structures for different types of projects, time-blocking, client funnels, etc.

Get comfortable with rejection. Use it as a primer for self-reflection and refining your craft/processes or help you pivot your approach to help you achieve your goals. Never take business decisions on behalf of a company personally (and vice versa).

Give yourself breaks, but don't give up. Tapping out for good is the only surefire way to fail at an endeavor. Be flexible in your path, but zeroed in on your goal(s). Learn when to quit or pivot, and when it's time to coast or seek growth.

#career advice #career tips #career path #female entrepreneurs #female writers #entreprenuership #freelancewriter #freelancing #women writers #professional growth #networking #life advice #glow up tips #femme fatale #it girl #high value woman #the feminine urge #high value mindset #female excellence #female power #queen energy #dream girl #successhabits #level up #femmefatalevibe

[renstrapp]

Just formatted this zine for print! I'm hoping to have it for C2E2 (will you be there? will I see you in Chicago?), definitely will have it at VanCAF, and later on my shop.

Until then, you can read the whole 12 page zine for free on my portfolio site, which also has the download links for PDF 🎓🤓

#budgeting tips #freelancing #comic #risograph #self employed

[mewsmagic]

Honestly, this whole AI bs did so much critical damage to my emotional HP, I felt we really needed more people talking about it, so here I am!

Putting the title aside though, I’m really not here to tell you what to do, you decide what’s best for you based on your own circumstances!!

I made this post merely to calm you down, show the options and give you some hope that yes, there’s still a future for our career!

We’ll have to keep fighting for it of course, but that’s a topic for another comic, stay tuned! 👀

#mews art #mews comics #ai #ai art #artificial intelligence #generative ai #no to ai art #no to ai generated art #no to ai generated images #no ai art #no ai writing #support artists #support human artists #support small creators #support small artists #support small business #freelance artist #freelance illustrator #freelance #freelancing #freelancer #motivation

[harucchii]

How it feels to be your own boss !!!!

but taxes...

#art #digital art #original character #furry art #furry character #artists on tumblr #fursona #my oc art #kemono #harucchi art #freelance #freelancing #artist #freelancer artist #ohno taxes

[malcolmschmitz]

So a while ago, @neil-gaiman talked about freelancing (I think it was specifically in a comics context?) and said this:

“You get work however you get work, but people keep working in a freelance world (and more and more of today's world is freelance), because their work is good, because they are easy to get along with and because they deliver the work on time. And you don’t even need all three! Two out of three is fine. People will tolerate how unpleasant you are if your work is good and you deliver it on time. People will forgive the lateness of your work if it is good and they like you. And you don’t have to be as good as everyone else if you’re on time and it’s always a pleasure to hear from you.”

And I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and if you turn it around a little bit- you can also use this as a worker's rights framework for freelancers.

A good client will consistently give you grace on at least one of these things, and will occasionally give you grace on all of them if necessary. A good client will be understanding if you're late occasionally, or if you've had an off day and your work isn't quite up to par, or if you've got A Hill To Die On that isn't immediately palatable.

If you prove yourself over time, a good client will make allowances for you when you're consistently late, consistently grouchy, or consistently putting out B-grade work. As long as you've proven that you can give them two of Neil's three work necessities, a good client will be able to adjust their expectations of what you can and can't do, and will make it very clear to you up front when they can't adjust those expectations (because sometimes, business reasons mean they can't afford to let you be late/sloppy/prickly).

A client that won't budge on any of these expectations, ever, is not a great client. A client that never lets you give them anything but your Very Best work, badgers you about deadlines while you're having a Life Emergency, or demands that you always roll over when they say boo? Not a great client. Sometimes you have to take a client like this for survival reasons, because everyone has to eat. But you should not bust your hump working for a client like this, because they're not giving you the grace you deserve.

A client that tells you they are giving you grace on these things when they're clearly not, or a client that sets you up to fail on any one of these things? Say, a client that makes you do 10-15 rounds of terrible revisions while they waffle, or a client that sets you impossible deadlines, or a client that lets one person bully everyone else and expects everyone to make nice? Bad client. Danger, Will Robinson. Get out while you still can.

So yeah, the point is, a freelance relationship (and any other kind of work relationship! but Neil was talking about freelancers) is a two-way street. There are expectations you have to follow, but there are also expectations you can set.

If you know you struggle with skill, niceness, or punctuality, you can find freelance clients that let you play to your strengths-- and you should expect every client to, occasionally, give you grace with any of those things.

(Also Mr. Gaiman, I doubt you're reading this, but if you are, thank you so much for writing that-- as an unmedicated-ADHD teenager who's always planned to go into a creative field, it took so much pressure off of me when I was younger.)

#on writing #freelancing #worker's rights #freelancer's rights #neil gaiman #my freakin' industry #i'm tempted to tag a bunch of people in this but i think they'd rightly see it as spam orz

[evandorkin]

New on the Patreon: More old magazine work, this time Milk & Cheese: The Losing Edge from Wizard Edge (2002). Also: kid's letters and fan art sent to Wizard, both pro and anti-Milk & Cheese.

#evandorkin #milk and cheese #wizard #wizard magazine #wizard edge #fan mail #fan art #old magazine work #freelancing #my brilliant career #comics #milkandcheese #patreon

[chizuny]

all recent art showcase WOHO!

#my art #indipendent artist #lgbtartist #lgbt #my artwork #commission #original character #vtuber assets #vtuber #vtuber model #freelancing #freelance artist

[oggysonart]

PSA real quick: Don’t buy art advice

I’m not talking about art tutorials or like supporting a tier on someone’s patreon to get feedback or stuff like that, that’s a different thing. This is also not about going to art school.

What I am talking about is stuff like online courses and books that people sell on topics like secrets to growing your art instagram, making loads of passive money off your work, stuff like that. It’s fake.

I’ve seen a disturbing amount of them appear which is why I’m making this PSA. There is no secret to growing your art instagram or making passive money off your art or kickstarting your freelance carreer. If the tips are legit, it’s out there for free if you look for it. We are already talking about it because we’re already doing it. People making these courses and selling these books are only sharing stuff you can already google yourself. These people are rarely making their livings as artists themselves, instead they’re just doing the art world version of get rich quick schemes, they’re praying on your passions and selling you advice that is either already publicly available, unhelpful or even just false.

I’ll give you some advice for free, kay?

Improving your art:

First and foremost working on improving your art should always be priority and you can find tutorials on any subject matter for free pretty much anywhere if you just google stuff like “how to draw a cloud”. Your art is what people will want to buy/see so keep improving it and keep making it if your goals is to build a carreer or an audience, there is no way around it.

Growing your audience

Straight up just engage with whichever app/site you’re using. Post good art yourself, but be a cheerleader for others first and foremost. Post consistently, not constantly, use appropriate tags, talk about your work in your descriptions and engage with people who engage with you. That stuff is in your control, the rest is honestly just luck. For some people it takes a long time, for others it’s a faster progress, there is no secret here, no one knows how to please the algorithm, we’re all just throwing crumbs out and hoping it gets eaten. Bots and promo bots will do more harm than good and spamming other people’s accounts asking them to check you out or tagging someone in your art that’s completely unrelated to them is just annoying. Just chill and post your art and have fun. Remember that social media should ‘t be a popularity contest, it should be social.

Making money

There are so many ways! I don’t even know half the ways and it depends what you want to achieve really. You can make money selling commissions, you can try to get a job at some sort of company, at which there are many who’d want to employ artists, games, films, animation, marketing, marketing departments in companies that otherwise do completely unrelated stuff, I’ve heard of an artist working fulltime at a science lab. There is room for you, you just need to find your industry. You can also license your work which is where the passive income comes in and there are a bunch of ways to do this too google it. You can be an illustrator for books or magazines, you can be a cartoonist for a paper, you can do logos or t-shirt designs and you can work freelance as pretty much whatever you want. It’s not going to be easy finding these jobs and most people do several jobs at once. It takes time to build up clientell and find your opportunities but a good place to start is straight up just googling “how to license my art” or “how to become a concept artist” or just straight up “how to make money as an artist.” It’s all out here.

I don’t have all the answers at hand and I’m too busy looking for all the resources for you. I bet other people will happily provide links and stuff, so feel free to share resources! My point id just this:

Everything is out there for free, google it.

#art #art industry #art advice #how to art #art tutorial #artist #work as an artist #make money as an artist #freelancing

[claudiasharon]

For those Early Access creators that are disabled and worried about losing income!

Hi! So I am disabled and I use Patreon for donations only at this point, and the occasional requested mod. Now, since I am disabled, I am limited to working from home. I do not get a lot of donations, so I have never relied on Patreon for any income, nor would I have relied on it if I made a lot either. I knew it would be temporary, etc and I only wanted it for donations tbh.

So, if you are an EA creator and you are concerned about losing your income, let me suggest something for you! I use a website called upwork.com, and it is a freelancing website for ALL skillsets!

And I mean all. I have done proofreading, writing, marketing, social media management, and my mom got a legit 9-5 job making 20+ USD / hour through medical work. I have seen legit lawyers on there making bank too doing lawyer work. There is something on here for EVERYONE. I mean even boring easy data entry shit. Some folks will pay you to test apps on your phone too! I have tested so many slot games omg, who knew they were so popular? LMAO!

The catch is, that you have to apply for these jobs. That is it. It does not cost anything AND you can make good money if you apply yourself. Make a great profile, showcase your skills, and even take some assessments if you would like to, and boom you will get hired.

@jellypawss and @llazyneiph I was thinking of you two posting this, but this is for ANYONE.

If anyone is interested in using Upwork, and needs help getting started, hit me up! I have made a decent amount working from home using them, and I know all the tricks. ;)

My discord is ClaudiaSharon#5107 if you want help! Or message me on Tumblr here through DM. If you have questions, want help getting started, whatever, I can help! And no I won't charge you for it. ;)

#upwork.com #nonsims #freelancing #any jobs #I mean anything you can dream of #even coding shit #for real #there is something for everyone #even if you do not have a degree in anything!@ #even if you are not American or Canadian! #there are people from India on there #from Australia #the UK #you name it #they will hire you #some jobs will be location specific #most are not! #and they have translating jobs too #for you translators out there! #any location for real #I have seen people from the middle east getting jobs there too #any place #anywhere #any time #you got it #you can do it! #long post #sorry not gonna cut it #because some ppl really need to see this! #<3

[sacherali]

Since Sinking Sickness, the new adventure for DayLITE's Almsford setting, is out...

Let me show you some of the character work I did ✨

Starting with ms. Rield and dear Hyacinth 💛💙

#artists on tumblr #commissions #freelancing #ttrpg #daylight #daylite #almsford #tabletop #rpg art #digital art #adobe photoshop #sacherali #ngl that orkani farmer illu is totally my favorite

[femmefatalevibe]

Hey, I saw that you're a copywriter. I'm in the process of doing reach outs. Is there any advice you could perhaps give me?

Hi love! I would say to keep the following in mind:

Have all your materials (portfolio, website, clips, LinkedIn, rate card, etc.) neatly packaged and easy to browse through

Define your USP and core specialties/services. Why would a prospective client hire you specifically? What makes your expertise, experiences, offerings, etc. the perfect fit for their needs?

Have an elevator pitch/intro in every reach out to humanize yourself and share your unique value-add

Tailor every pitch and use it as a chance to position yourself as the solution to their business needs/pain points (this can range from having a niche/specialty that aligns with their needs, such as experience writing tech-focused email copy, or offering them a greater business need like brand awareness to a specific market)

Research, research, research –– about the business/client/contact you're reaching out to, their existing marketing materials/press mentions/social feeds, general knowledge of the industry, etc.

Have an onboarding/workflow process for every project. Be prepared to share a general overview of how you work in a discovery call

Ask for a discovery call at the end of our every reach-out message

Know your rates and turnaround times/rush rates ahead of time

For any discovery call, always be prepared to run the show/ask questions that will help you better understand their needs/business/personalities and work style

Hope this helps xx

#copy writing #blog writing #writing #female entrepreneurs #female writers #women business #writers on tumblr #marketing agency #freelancewriter #freelancing #femmefatalevibe

[mysharona1987]

#Journalism #freelance #freelancing #columnists

[that90ssmshow]

Spider-Man says don't work for exposure

#peter parker #spider-man #freelance life #freelancing #smcomics #amazing spider-man 99 #stan lee #gil kane #1971

[wowbright]

I have a client who I do regular work for throughout the month, often working on stuff for her multiple days a week.

I have repeatedly asked her to give me clear deadlines and state her priorities when she assigns new projects or tasks to me. If she wants a quick turnaround for something (less than a week), I have told her to give me her preferred deadline, and if that's feasible I'll do it (but it may require me downgrading other things she's assigned to me, in which case I will notify her of that), and if it's not feasible, I will propose a different deadline.

And STILL she will send me emails asking me to do something without saying when she wants it done by, and when I reply she'll ask, "when can you do it?"

When I tell her AGAIN that as my client, her role is to tell me what she wants, she says she feels bad giving me deadlines because she doesn't know what other work I have on my plate.

To which I say, "You don't need to feel bad because I feel perfectly comfortable telling you no or offering an alternative if what you propose doesn't work for me."

This situation annoys me for so many reasons, but the more important thing is: how do I train her?

#work #freelance #freelancing #me