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Professional Design Practice Lesson 5: Invoicing Clients

Feb 2010, in Articles, Featured, Freelance, General, Graphic Design, Professional Design Practice, Resources, Work Experience, professional practice.
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At the same point each month, every month, an employed person receives a wage packet from his payroll department, and his his bank account is credited with his salary. Safe in this knowledge, he can plan his finances around this fixed point. For the intrepid freelancer things are a little different, for he must send out invoices to his clients, and then wait to be paid. So far so straightforward, but there are several factors to consider with regard to invoicing, which I’ll be taking you through below. After all, getting paid on time is what keeps us all afloat, and what freelance designer doesn’t desire that?

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Should I go freelance or permanent? The pros and cons of both

Feb 2010, in Advertising, Articles, Featured, Freelance, General, Graphic Design, Professional Design Practice, Work Experience, professional practice.
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Woo hoo! You’ve finished college, you’ve put together your folio and you’re ready to take on the design world. Should you be looking for permanent or freelance roles, or just try and get whatever you can? Here are some things worth considering before you decide.

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Professional Design Practice Lesson 4: Dealing with Clients

Feb 2010, in Articles, Featured, General, Graphic Design, Professional Design Practice, Resources, Work Experience, professional practice.
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They come in all shapes and sizes, from all different professional backgrounds, and we rely on them to pay our fees. A large portion of the freelancer’s life is spent looking for them, bagging them, and spending a considerable amount of our daily slog trying to work out what they want. I’m speaking of course about clients, and this article is all about working with them…

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Professional Design Practice Lesson 3: Project Planning

Feb 2010, in Articles, Featured, General, Graphic Design, Professional Design Practice, Work Experience, professional practice.
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This week’s article on professional design practice concerns project planning. Good, thoughtful project planning can be indispensable to the smooth running of your professional life as a freelancer. By running your business along well-oiled, well-organised lines you’ll be able to wring the most amount of time out of your days, maximise your profits, avoid mislaying things and generally inject some calm into your busy life. A modicum of planning, far from acting as a restraint on creativity, can in fact free us to spend more time on the creative process. It should therefore be an integral part of all our working lives. Follow the guides below, or a life of professional chaos awaits!

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