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Issue #298 Professional Edition
(Dedicated to helping you find work and make money.)
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In This Issue:
1…..How to Succeed in Web Design
2…..Hot Job: Design a Company Logo
3…..Freelance Job Opportunities
4…..Jobs for Freelancers
5…..Define Your USP
6..…More Jobs and Projects
7…..Get Google Alerts
8…..Cool Project: Neat Hand writer Needed
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1. How to Succeed in Web Design
Last week I wrote about one of my recent finds, The Web
Design Business Kit by SitePoint. Hopefully you've had a
chance to read the sample chapters by now, downloadable
at:
http://www.sitepoint.com/launch/info/2/4
During the past few days I've had a chance to dig further
into the two vinyl binders that I had delivered to my
door just days after ordering the product... I thought
I'd share with you a few tiny tidbits of information that
I'm sure you'll find useful in your own business:
1. Try surveying your competitors customers. Most web
design companies have a freely available portfolio/client
list on their site... just call them up, tell them you're
conducting a survey whose results will be released to
"Large Newspaper". Ask how they found their web design
firm and whether they were satisfied.
Most people will go out of their way to help you if they
know the results will be released to a major publication
and you'll gain a lot of insight. Compile the results
and issue a press release to local media.
2. Don't charge by the hour or by the project, charge by
the value you deliver. For example, excellent copywriters
often charge $20,000+ for a few pages of text that may
not take them any more time to put together than other
copywriters who charge $1000. The difference? Results and
experience, not the amount of time it took to do the
work.
If you can prove that your customer will make money by
using you, they'll choose you almost every time.
3. Offer a 100% money back guarantee. It removes risk for
your customer, and you'll never get called on it because
your clients will approve every part of the site.
4. Ask customers to honestly rate your service, and do
whatever tweaks are necessary to get 10 out of 10.
Delighted your customers refer clients, just satisfied
customers don't. Send your clients cards, forward
interesting news clippings and take them out for dinner.
Send them a regular newsletter and call them from time to
time if you find a useful tool that they can benefit from
(i.e. ClickTracks log analyzer). If they trust you and
you're sincere, you can easily upsell 90% of your
customers on a new site feature if you've kept in contact
with them after building their site.
That's just a tiny fraction of what "The Web Design
Business Kit" contains. Over 400 pages of step-by-step
guidance from the CEO's of one of Australia's most
successful Web Design firms and over 60+ editable
documents ready for use in your own business. I couldn't
recommend this product more strongly, the investment will
pay for itself many times over:
http://www.sitepoint.com/launch/info/3/4
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2. Hot Job:
Design a Company Logo
Logo Design in any High Resolution format (ie. eps, ai
etc.) Idea for logo provided. Some images may also be
provided. Need someone to implement idea. No animation.
Please forward your resume and a sample drawing of the
idea provided.
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3. Freelance Job Opportunities
Signing up with WeFreelance gives you instant access to
over 30,000 freelance projects. Whether you're a writer,
designer, proofreader or programmer, this is a good place
to start your project search.
You can try the service for a week for $2.50, so you
don't have to make a major commitment up front.
http://www.wefreelance.com/
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4. Jobs for Freelancers
Work-at-home and free agent jobs for writers, designers,
programmers and other professionals.
Design Quality Gift Bags
Looking for a talented artist to create artwork for high
quality seasonal and all-occasion gift bags. This person
should be able to follow artistic direction, take concept
ideas from pencil to high quality marker comps, and
create final art from the accepted and approved concepts.
Candidates knowledgeable of design repeats and computer
skills are preferred. Subject matter includes birthday,
baby, wedding, floral and holidays.
Freelance Developmental Editor
A Freelance Developmental Editor is currently needed.
Responsibilities include planning and developing
scientific book manuscripts and overseeing preparation of
illustrations; tracking progress of manuscripts; setting
and meeting deadlines for draft and final manuscripts,
coordinating the efforts of multiple authors/editors; and
ensuring that the final manuscript is shaped
appropriately for the audience and general purpose of the
book. Qualified candidates will have a life sciences
background, ideally with previous book publishing
experience.
COPYWRITERS-FREELANCE
Experienced copywriters needed to write creative,
concept-driven copy for advertisements and brochures.
ASP Programmers Needed
Actionscript, ASP programmers needed who can write object
oriented code and are very familiar with XML, and SOAP.
Please forward your resume and links to previous work.
Designer/Animator
Freelance HTML Designer & Digital Animation Expert needed
for several upcoming projects. Opportunity to graduate to
full-time employment
SCIENCE WRITER (Full-Time or Freelance)-#MMG418
Science Writer, excellent at summarizing and explaining
advances in biomedical research for consumer and
professional audiences, needed on full-time or freelance
basis. Will report on scientific and regulatory meetings
as well as review scientific literature in order to write
original summaries, conference reports and articles in
lay language and/or for healthcare professionals. Send
resume and writing samples demonstrating experience and
ability to produce the kind of work required. Candidates
should have graduate-level training in the biomedical
sciences or comparable experience.
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5. Define Your USP
The Internet has brought a whole world of clients to your
doorstep, but it has also made it more important to
differentiate yourself.
Nowadays, it's not enough to define yourself as a
freelance writer or designer, for example. You need to
define why the client should use you, rather than any of
the thousands of other freelancers worldwide.
Think carefully about what you have to offer to the
client, and work out what makes your service special.
Then make sure you promote this unique selling
proposition (USP) as heavily as you can.
Defining your own niche in the market can make a real
difference to your global sales.
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6. More Jobs and Projects
The latest projects and opportunities for free agents
worldwide.
Design for Professional Exhibition Company
The Freelance Graphic Designer is responsible for
developing and designing unique conceptual designs. The
ideal candidate will have a minimum of five years in
graphic design. Creative functions include a proficiency
in composition, color principles, and typography. Good
communication skills and strong team and individual
oriented working attributes are a must. Must have:
Working knowledge of Mac OS. Proficiency in Adobe
Illustrator, Photoshop, and Quark Xpress. Familiarity
with Windows (PC) environment. Working knowledge of Adobe
Acrobat, Toast, Norton Utilities, and Internet
Applications. Understand the principles of resolution,
e.g. ppi vs. dpi. Minimum Education Requirements: BA/BS
Degree.
Edit Content of a Web Site
Staff, part time or freelance editor-writer to develop
content of a site, write or help write White Papers and
press releases and proof technical documentation.
Reporting to the company's CEO and VP of Marketing, the
ideal candidate will have contributed to sites like
XML.com, XML.org, W3C, W3Journal, ZDNet, Web Review, Web
Techniques Seybold, etc.
Take 3D Photo's
A freelance 3D Photographer is required to work with the
clients new project 3D Portrait. 3D Portrait is the ideal
way to photographically capture peoples, collectibles,
products, toys, sculptures and other objects in a 3D
form. It's a complete technical solution that includes
all components necessary for efficient production of
high-quality VR objects. The main components are the
software and motorized turntable (XT-100 or XT-350). You
can place it in any public place such as a supermarket,
fair, computer store, photo studio etc and in just a
couple minutes create incredible 3D Image of a person and
then save it to CD, floppy disk or other data storage
device. If you are interested, please send your resume.
Junior Apparel Designer Needed
A custom clothing store needs a freelance junior apparel
designer. An entire line is needed. Great opportunity for
the right person. Please view clothing on the website
provided to get a feel for the type of apparel that is
being sold. Forward your resume and samples of previous
designs.
Marketing Advise Needed
An experienced marketer is needed who can advise client
on copyright and marketing development for a new language
product. Client has designed a new product called
'Momin-Language': ABC/abc is transformed to: "SIGN's"
written in hand. This is an easy formula to remember and
is used by individuals to read & write for fun or
Confidential use. Please contact for further information.
File-Maker Pro Database Designer Needed
A publishing service has an immediate need for a Denver
CO area File-Maker Pro database designer who has Lasso
experience. The firm specializes in data-base driven
websites. Looking for a contract designer to help the
lead designer with over-flow.
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7. Get Google Alerts
Google is becoming more and more important as the primary
source of information on the Internet. Consequently, it
is important to know what Google has to say about you are
your web site.
Google Alert is a service that keeps you up to date with
new Google mentions of terms that you specify. It's a
great way of finding out how popular you are on the web.
http://www.googlealert.com
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8. Cool Project:
Neat Hand writer Needed - New Hampshire
Need someone with good male handwriting to address about
20 envelopes. Might commission more later on. Offering $3
per envelope; Postage will be paid by client and will
include an SASE. The client has determined that best way
to make initial contact with corporate big-wigs is in a
handwrittten envelope, but their handwriting is a little
to wild for this task. Your task will be to sit in for
them in this role! Prefer to hire someone in New
Hampshire.
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Remember:
"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do
not stop."
(Confucius)
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