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Freelancing: In Getting New Work, Relationship Counts More Than Ever

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Businesses have a choice when seeking creative services: They can go the cheap route and buy a logo through a crowdsource/contest site where they’ll select the lowest bidder, or they can commission a designer for a custom, targeted design. This creates a dilemma for legitimate freelancers. Competition for freelance design work is not only increasing, [...]

Unpaid Internships Are A Form of Spec Work

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Why is spec work so prevalent in the design profession when it’s not in other professions? Increasingly companies – “creative” businesses included – are offering “unpaid internships” instead of hiring designers outright. In trying to reduce costs, they will offer an “internship” and even go through a selection process similar to that involved in standard [...]

I Didn’t Get The Job

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Not every prospect will make a good client and not every project is worth the effort. How a client presents himself or herself in the initial meeting is usually a good indication of how the working relationship will go. It is wise to think twice before pursuing or accepting a client when red flags appear [...]