This simple but informative post lists six great user news sections you can submit your art, design and photography related posts to, all of which will help increase your incoming traffic and improve your feed subscriber count.
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As I’m sure many of you know, 2009 has been a very busy year for me. From leaving college to starting a business, from being unemployed with no money to becoming a full time self-employed individual living comfortably off my earnings purely from blogging. This post lists my achievements along with notes on how I made the achievement possible, as well as my top ten favorite posts that I wrote this year.
It’s great being self-employed or a freelancer, but it’s not always easy. Every designer, developer and photographer comes across difficult times at least several times in their career. There might be a dry spell where there’s simply no work, or maybe you’re just not having any luck and losing out on opportunities. There are such things as ‘freelance websites’, with thousands of jobs entered day-in, day-out. Sounds excellent, huh? But believe me, it’s not. Read on to find out why…
Over the past few months I have spent a lot of time promoting myself and my blog, Circlebox Blog. During that time I have picked up a lot of things, good and bad. The blog is growing very well now and due to that I feel I know enough to share with you eight of the many tips that can help towards making your blog a successful one.
There are many benefits from being self-employed, but as with most things in life a few disadvantages are thrown in with the package too. We get to work from home, work our own hours, do what we enjoy, have as many days off as we want and blast out tunes all day long (well, at least I do!). But unfortunately we also have to correctly manage our time, avoid distractions and mistakes, find our own work and communicate with difficult clients – we do it wrong, and our wage (ultimately our lives) depends on it. This article compiles 16 superb articles to help you get your head around freelance designing.
