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If you are dedicated to graphic design or any other online business, you probably already know what Paypal is, the most important online bank, and the most used all over the net. Also, you surely know that Paypal charges 4% of any payment you receive, while sending money is free.
Sharing what you know is risky. Someone could steal your ideas or your techniques. It’s even a little unfair! Why share what you learned by yourself, with so much effort and without help from anyone else? And what do you get in exchange? Isn’t it a risk for your business? Is it worth the effort?
Sharing your knowledge is good for everybody, you included… and I’m going to give you 9 reasons why
Hello guys, I was hired again by PSDTuts to write another tutorial, this time completelly FREE.
In this article Im going to talk about my workflow used to design mascots for websites. This process in this article was described in real time as I created the designs. Let’s look at this more closely.
You have a lot of talent, quality designs saved in your hard disk, you are good, nice and cheap, but you do not have clients. Something is going wrong. It is time to rethink your marketing strategy. Here I leave you some suggestions for your first professional portfolio.
I have recieved many comments about this topic, even recieved emails blaming me of degrading the design industry… “your work is great, WHY ARE YOUR SERVICES SO CHEAP?”
2007, a year full of emotions in the professional and personal. I didn’t have much luck in the first part of the year, i lost a client that guaranteed me about 6.000US$ per month; and also one of my designers abandoned me… luckily, in the 6 remaining months i recovered my clients and even exceeded the ammount, and i discovered that i’m good enough in my work to depend on someone. If you want to know how i did it, here’s my year summary!
I’ve seen this topic from the point of view of a designer in thousands of blogs, but almost always they forget something, the psicological point of view. As you may know, appart from designer i’m licensed in Psicology, so i’ll talk about both points of view: the designer’s and psicologist.
A couple of days ago our friend Andreu, SOSNewbie reader, sent me an email with a serie of questions; it’s not the first time that that someone asks them, so i thought in writing this post.
Lately we have been discovering a lot of websites that steal designs from SOSFactory, they are mainly websites dedicated to porn or warez, and as they are illegal activities it looks like it’ll be hard to make them remove our designs. In this post we’ll try to make stealing difficult for bad boys.
Boss: that guy that appears at 12am, 5 minutes after the secretary appears with a suspicios “i just woke up” face, and that hurries you because “we are late”… when you have been working for 4 hours in the office, looking at the wall because nobody gave you a list of the thing you have to do. Fire the useless boss!!!! Now you are your own boss, so you have total control within all the aspects related to your work
I’m starting to get bored of all those blogs that talk about how good is to work as a freelance designer, specially blogs in english. It looks like it’s normal to get a salary of 6 numbers, work 4hs a day, and having mega clients that ask for jobs anybody would do even for free. But what about the negative side of this life style?
This might be the most important post i have written until now. Assuming you meet the minimum requirements to be able to work as a freelance designer via internet: you must know english, have a Paypal account, a quality online portfolio… What can we do to get a job?
Time to take care of those legal issues that worry us, i will show the model of a confidentiality contract (plus many other things) for freelance designers. The second one is a contract exclusive for author rights or copyright.
In this article we are going to talk about what you need to start your freelance designer job without dying in the process. Of course your designs must have a good quality, and you must want to do this job perfectly… but what else do you need?
In this article we are going to skip the designing tools and focus in the procedure we follow in SOSFactory when creating a Design by Order (for example a mascot design). We do everything via internet, communication, payment, sending files… this is our business model, the one we will
be talking about here.
Briefing is a communication instrument between the designer and the client in form of key questions to know their needs at the time of designing any product by order. It will save you time, money and misfortunes. To give the Briefing is the first this you should do, even before the estimate… If you don’t know your client’s needs, how are you going to calculate the time you’ll spend working?
