bronsond

Hi there, Bronson here.

I'm new to the graphic design thing. I would like to ask for some advice: My plan is to start my own website offering my services, but the one thing I know is you need a portfolio. So I was thinking to do freelance work in order to create a decent portfolio.

So I would like to know, how or what is the best possible way to become a freelancer?

How do I get clients?
If someone needs some design work, how can they find me?

Thanks.

infektsu

Well first of all it's going to be kind of hard to get clients if you don't have any work to show. My suggestion would be to create mockups and or illustrations/designs for fictional companies or just for real companies as a concept. That way you can make a site and have some work to show. Just be sure you explain they were personal concepts and not work for whatever company you chose.

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alyCe

freelance as a job or freelance as a hobby?

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bronsond

Hi, there.

Thanks for the advice. I would like to freelance as a job. I love the freedom it gives a person. Hope that answes your question.

See Ya

alyCe

Yeah, freelance graphic design as a job is a dream. Problem is, it's not as easy as it sounds. These days you have a million people (from 14 - 20, heh) who knows photoshop and took a few tutorials and they are all graphic designers, and they are of course freelance. They are all new to the game without formal education, and therefore comes frightenly cheap. I could ramble on about this and the effect on the graphic design-scene forever but that's beside the point :P

The point is that it's hard to make it into the freelance-world as a beginner. You need a strong portfolio and hopefully a well-established network. I don't know how old you are, but if you are thinking about doing this full-time and beeing economical depedant on it, you should have caution, be shure you have the money to survive if the jobs don't come, because they'll probably be sparse, at least in the beginning. I'll write more later if you want

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bronsond

Thanks alot for that. It's good to hear other peoples viewpoints to put things into perspective! Well, I'm 18 at the moment, don't know if you know, but I just finished my course in graphic design and advertising. I've sort of got a portfolio, from the course, but I think it needs a bit more meat. At the monent I'm not looking for paying clients, just need do some work in order for the people to get to know me, and the quality of my work!

Thanks again for the words of wisdom, and please if you got more let me know.

See ya.

infektsu

You should post some of you work on the boards. We'd love to see it.

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bronsond

Thanks will do!

digitaldesperad

To write a good post, you’ve got to do some research first, and add to that the writing time, and it can take between 90 minutes to 3 hours to write your best stuff. . So if you plan to do some freelancing, be sure you’ve got the extra time. that’s about 9-10 hours of work on top of your regular job.
But the cool thing about freelance blog writing is that you can do it from any place, any time of day. So you can write late at night, during your lunch hour, or in the early morning hours. You can do it while traveling, or while sitting through a boring conference. There’s a freedom to it that’s very appealing
Give your best. If you do get a freelance writing gig with a blog, or a trial post or two, be sure to submit y our very, very best stuff. Only submit a post that has a chance of doing extremely well on Digg or Delicious. A mediocre post doesn’t help the blog you’re writing for, and certainly doesn’t help you.

Meet your deadlines. This is an obvious one, but if you constantly miss deadlines, you will appear unprofessional. If I’m an editor with the choice of hiring one good writer who meets deadlines and another good writer who misses them, guess who I’m going with. And your reputation is all you have to go on.

Know your topic. It’s best to write about stuff you know. If you know nothing about a topic, you will probably look dumb. If you only know a little about a topic, research it like crazy until you know a ton. Writing about topics you’re already very familiar with will save you a lot of time, and will probably be a much better read.

Professional details. As a professional blog writer, be sure to insist on a contract, and know the other details of a job before you start: the payment rate, when and how they’ll pay you, the desired length of the post, what format it should be submitted in, whether images or other media are required, the exact deadline, how to submit it, etc.

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