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16 years ago
On how to launch a freelance career, yoinked from Pac on LJ:
http://woork.blogspot.com/2009/08/s.....-revenues.html
Personally I make my prices a bit high. Since my main focus is school, it's better for me to get a few high-paying customers vs. many lower paying ones. One common mistake I see people do in regards to this though, is that they sell themselves cheap because of a perceived lack of customer interest. In fact, they usually just need to market themselves better; I cannot stress enough how vital advertising is to getting a job. Many people seem to forget that.
When I first started doing commissions, I hounded websites and forums for work, and I actually got it. Now that I've stopped advertising as much, I've noticed that I definitely don't attract as many new customers, but that's fine. My point is that there is a clear positive correlation (at least in my case) between advertising and number of customers.
Of course, after you start getting customers, customer satisfaction is vital. Many of my customers are repeats, so I don't have to always go searching for new customers every time.
Not that I'm an expert or anything like that. But just my thoughts.
P.S. THE MOON IS ORANGE TONIGHT. It looks like an orange slice.
http://woork.blogspot.com/2009/08/s.....-revenues.html
Personally I make my prices a bit high. Since my main focus is school, it's better for me to get a few high-paying customers vs. many lower paying ones. One common mistake I see people do in regards to this though, is that they sell themselves cheap because of a perceived lack of customer interest. In fact, they usually just need to market themselves better; I cannot stress enough how vital advertising is to getting a job. Many people seem to forget that.
When I first started doing commissions, I hounded websites and forums for work, and I actually got it. Now that I've stopped advertising as much, I've noticed that I definitely don't attract as many new customers, but that's fine. My point is that there is a clear positive correlation (at least in my case) between advertising and number of customers.
Of course, after you start getting customers, customer satisfaction is vital. Many of my customers are repeats, so I don't have to always go searching for new customers every time.
Not that I'm an expert or anything like that. But just my thoughts.
P.S. THE MOON IS ORANGE TONIGHT. It looks like an orange slice.
