75+ Articles to Help Freelance Designers Find More Work
Where do you find work?
For freelance designers and developers, finding work on a consistent basis is one of the biggest challenges. Especially in the current economy, this is one aspect of freelancing that prevents some from achieving everything they want as a freelancer. Fortunately, there are plenty of great articles available online that can help you to improve in certain areas that will help you to have a steady workload.
In this post we’ll feature more than 75 articles on various topics that can help freelancers to find more work and achieve a more stable and significant income.
Portfolios:
- Freelance Portfolio Tips to Ace Job Contracts
- Five tips for a fantastic portfolio site
- 5 Awesome Portfolio Tips to Maximize Sales for Freelancers
- Top 10 Portfolio Tips for Freelance Designers
- Why You Should Treat Your Freelance Portfolio Like a Stock Portfolio
- How To Put Together a Solid Freelance Portfolio
- Redesigning Your Portfolio Site: 4 Tips to Make it Better and Get More Business
- How to Make Your Portfolio Site More Effective by Adding a Blog
- 5 Tips for a Better Online Portfolio
- 200 Portfolio Sites for Web Design Inspiration
- How to Make Your Portfolio Better and Get More Clients – Part 1 (and Part 2)
Sales:
- Make selling your freelance services easier by using long term contracts
- Create an About Page for Your Blog that’s a Secret Freelance Sales Weapon
- 7 Pain Free Sales Tips for Creatives
- Ten Sales Tips for Freelancers
- Sales Tips for Shy People
- 6 Basic Sales Tips Every Freelance Web Designer Really Needs to Know
- How to Win Clients with Time Tested Sales Techniques
- The Lost Art of Selling – 10 (Almost Effortless) Ways to Increase Sales
- 10 Essential Steps to Making the Perfect Pitch
- The Dos and Don’ts of Selling to Clients
- The Violent Truth of Freelance Sales
- Selling Website Design: How to Overcome the 3 Most Ignorant Objections
Economic Trends:
- The Lateral Freelancer: How to Make A Living in the Share Economy
- Working your way in the freelance economy
- Features of the Freelance Economy
- 5 Economic Trends that Affect Freelancers
- 6 Ways to Help Your Business Weather the Economic Storm
- 8 Ways Freelancers Can Survive in a Troubled Economy
- 17 Tips for Getting Through a Business Downturn
Getting Work:
- Finding Freelance Projects
- The real truth about finding more freelance design work
- How Should Freelancers Find Work?
- Side Hustle: 5 Ways to Score Freelance Gigs
- 5 Ways to Find Work as a New Freelancer
- Land of the freelancers, home of the brave: How to find your next freelance gig online
- 17 Great Websites to Find Freelance Jobs
- How to Create a Great Web Design CV and Resume
- How to Respond to Job Postings Faster than the Competition (Without Canned Responses)
- The Secret to Landing Clients Nearly 100% of the Time
- You vs. the Design Firms: How to Win Every Time
- How to Win Jobs on Freelance Bidding Sites
- 27 Places to Find Web Design Jobs
- A Simple Way to Stop Clients from Rejecting Your Proposals
- How to Stop Scrambling for Clients and Get a Steady Stream of Paying Gigs
- Three Sure-Fire Ways to Receive a Killer Referral from Your Clients
- 7 Tips on Quoting Freelance Projects
- Tips for Attracting Local Clients
- The Lone Web Designer: Strategies for Competing Against the Big Agencies
Finding Work Through Social Networks:
- Finding Work on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter
- How to Really Use Twitter to Find More Freelance Work
- Being Social Online Can Help You Find Freelance Gigs
- A Social Network “Unstrategy” for Finding Freelance Gigs
- Creative Ways to Land Freelance Work from Social Media
- Embracing Social Media as Freelance Job Search Tool
- 15 Ways New Freelancers Can Use Social Media to Boost Business
- 8 Things You Can Do to Get Work Through LinkedIn
- How to Use Social Networks to Find Gigs
- 5 Ways You Can Use Twitter to Build Your Online Profile, Network and Get More Clients
- Gigantic Tips Guide for Finding Jobs with LinkedIn
Other Income:
- Web Designers Making Thousands of Dollars in Passive Income
- 5 Ways to Make Passive Income For Freelance Designers
- My secret to making steady money as a freelance designer
- Why Every Freelancer Should Have a Personal Project
- Passive Income Strategies For Web Designers
- 9 Tips for Creating and Maximizing a Steady Income by Selling Stock
- 11 Steps for a More Stable Freelance Income
Marketing:
- How to market your design, the integrated approach
- This is Only a Test… Or Is It? How To Test Your Marketing Efforts as a Freelancer
- A Complete Guide of Self-Marketing As A Freelancer
- The Importance of Content Marketing for Freelance Web Designers and Studios
- Effective Differentiation for Freelancers
- 5 Brand-Building Actions Every Freelancer Should Take Now
- 11 Ways to Gain Exposure as a Web Designer
- 5 Low-Cost Ways to Market Your Freelance Business
- How to Stick Out and Get Clients to Remember You
- 6 Simple Ways to Promote Your Online Business Offline
- 3 Steps to Creating a Freelance Brand that Sells
- How to Get More Freelance Gigs Using Viral Marketing
Bookmarked! This is awesome thanks 🙂
– Eric
Useful post. Thanks you very much
Good job !
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Pretty useful selection 🙂
Excellent article – consider it bookmarked!
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Really useful!
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Great collection of resources, thanks so much!
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This is going to be very useful and worth a read!
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Great stuff !!
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Definitely useful! Thank you!
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Amazing list. I already have half of them opened. Thanks!
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Great article! Bookmarked right away!
Great stuff !! thanks
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You guys should definitely check out http://www.ejobmailer.com.. It helps you find suitable freelance work opportunities by automatically searching various online job sources for matching jobs. It then emails you the results with a time interval of your choice. I found many freelance jobs this way..! -Cheers.
Awesome list of articles. Thanks.
My current dilemma is how to price my work. There’s a calculator over at FreelanceSwitch that was pretty helpful too: http://freelanceswitch.com/rates/.
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