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Yihaaa!!!Hi all,
We just wanted to let you know that we've issued a cS award to user "brainworm" for their great work - congrats, brainworm!
If you're wondering why the full award wasn't given out, well, unfortunately, the buyer in this project has asked for a refund. And, because we offer buyers a money-back guarantee, sometimes we have to make good on that promise. In these cases, we refund the entire award (and our project fee) and pay the creative a cS award out of our own pockets. We've promised that every single project will be awarded - no matter what - and this is our way of honoring that promise. While we can't always pay the full award in every case, the winning creative is also free to keep the rights to all their work and do with it what they want. We hope you understand...
Thanks so much for participating and see you around the site,
The crowdSPRING crew
Day 19
Perform some simple SEO on your portfolio. Sprinkling a little SEO-dust on your portfolio can eventually help to bring a trickle of prospects to your portfolio on autopilot.
Day 18
Start work on portfolio item #2, add item #1 to your portfolio. Now that contains some work, you have a genuine portfolio. Now we’re going to work on beefing it up by adding a couple more items. Item #2 should again illustrate your one service, though approached from a different angle. If your first sales letter was for skin cream, the second might be for a membership site, and demonstrate a different selling style. If your first PSD to code conversion was for a Wordpress blog, the next one might be for a business site.
Day 17
Announce that you are going to be taking on freelance work soon. If you already have an audience online, whether it be blog readers, your social media network or forum buddies, let them know that you’ll be available for freelancing soon. This will build a little bit of buzz and anticipation. If you’re really lucky, you might even be able to line up your first client before you’ve officially opened for business!
Day 16
Familiarize yourself with tax laws for freelancers in your country.
Hehehe, ternyata ada yang nyadar kalo saya udah lama ngga ngapdet progress. Okeee, saya lanjutkan lagi deh... :))Untungnya selama di kantor lama yang pemiliknya orang Singapura dan masih berstatus studio "coba-coba", status saya secara tidak langsung memang bersifat lebih ke freelancer, jadi selama 2 tahun kemarin sudah lumayan pengalaman lah (mudah-mudahan, hehehe).
Day 15
Read Freelance Switch’s guide to Getting Started as a Freelancer. There are some great articles here that cover all aspects of getting started with freelancing in more detail. If you have questions, you’ll find answers here..
Day 14
Add a page to your portfolio describing your one service. You should call this page ‘ Services’ - for example, ‘SEO Services’. On this page you will describe the service you provide to the client. Make sure to focus on benefits, not just features. For example, your SEO services “will funnel highly targeted traffic primed and ready to buy”.
Day 13
Start work on a portfolio item - you will have 5 days to complete this. More important than having items in your portfolio is the practice you will gain from completing this exercise. By the end of the 30 day challenge you will have three items in your portfolio, and this is the first. These items should involve the exact skills you will be selling to clients.
Day 12
Create a logo OR commission a logo OR work more on your skills. While not every freelancer has their own logo, it’s a fantastic addition to your branding. You can use it in emails, watermarks, business cards, invoices, your portfolio and when presenting work to your clients. If you don’t want a logo or don’t have the budget yet, work more on your skills today.
Day 11
Set up your home office space. You’re a freelancer now, so you need space to work. [...] In my experience, the cornerstones of an effective home office are a computer that works quickly, a good chair and a large monitor, or multiple monitors, for better productivity.
Day 10
Design your invoice template. If you fancy yourself a designer, create an attractive template for your invoices. As someone who spends time receiving and paying invoices, they do affect my perception of how professional the freelancer is. If you aren’t confident in your design skills then I would create an account at Freshbooks. They’re my favorite free invoice management service and I’ve used them often.
Day 9
Sign up at Formspring and create your ‘Contact’ form.
Day 8
Write your portfolio ‘About’ page. Include your current location, any relevant qualifications you have, previous work you have done in the industry and previous clients you have worked for (don’t worry if there are none). This is particularly relevant if you’ve been working in your field before going freelance. Keep in mind that this should be mainly professional rather than personal, but you can include some personal info at the end if you want. If you’d like to include a picture, a specially taken portrait is a good option.
Day 7
Select and install a portfolio Wordpress theme. This platform will give prospective clients the means to learn more about you and your services, view your work, and contact you.
Day 6
Set up Wordpress under your freelance business domain. Every freelancer should have an online portfolio, even if it’s very simple. If you’re a designer with time to spare you can probably take control of this step. If you want a quick solution that is quite effective, download Wordpress and install it under your domain name.
Day 5
Set up a business email address and PayPal account. While your friends and family might not mind receiving email from ronny69@hotmail.com, prospective clients might! Create an email address linked to your new domain name.
Catatan: Walaupun disarankan untuk mengubah akun PayPal sesuai dengan domain bisnis, namun untuk sementara ini tampaknya belum terlalu diperlukan.Karena progress hari keempat dan kelima sudah selesai, maka saya memiliki banyak waktu untuk berlatih tutorial. Yang sudah menjadi "incaran" saya saat ini adalah: Tutorial - So you want to create WordPress themes huh?
Day 4
Design your products. This is different from the service you are going to offer - here you decide how it is going to be packaged. Are you going to sell blocks of time? Completed projects? What will your rates be?
Day 3
Decide on a business name - are you a studio or individual? Then, buy the domain name and hosting. You can freelance under your real name, a pseudonym, or a business name.
Catatan Penulis:Oke, ini gampang.
Yep, karena saya berhutang dua hari progress, maka saya langsung buat saja dua posting. Mumpung sempet.
Kenapa "jenqidoodle"?(2) DOMAIN & HOSTING
Karena salah satu nama panggilan saya adalah Jengki. Dan saya suka mencoret-coret gambar (bahasa Inggrisnya: doodle). Sambungkan dua kata tersebut, jadilah jenqidoodle! Tidak ada alasan yang filosofis. Selain itu, berhubung saya menyukai hal yang berhubungan dengan anak-anak dan teringat akan lagu Yankee Doodle (walaupun tidak ada sangkut pautnya), maka terpilihlah nama ini dengan gemilang. Selain catchy, nama ini memiliki kesan fun dan colourful. Hmmm. Itu menurut saya pribadi sih, hehehe...
Kini website jenqidoodle sudah bisa diakses di www.jenqidoodle.com, namun masih berupa draft dan belum saya lengkapi dengan portfolio.
Day 2
Gather learning materials to help you practice your service before taking on a client. As I mentioned in the introduction to this list, you should spend at least 1 hour per day just developing your skill. While this should be mainly direct practice (doing rather than reading about), you will need to gather materials to guide you here. This includes articles, interviews and tutorials. Focus mainly on developing techniques you could actually see yourself using in client work.
Catatan Penulis:Kemarin saya sudah mendaftar beberapa website tutorial, hari ini saya mencoba slicing PSD dan memformatnya menjadi CSS, ini tutorial yang hari ini saya coba: Design and Code Your First Website in Easy to Understand Steps
Yep. Progress hari kedua dan hari ketiga memang telat saya posting, karena dua hari kemarin banyak distraksi. Salah satunya karena sedang ada promo tiket murahhh, huaaa!! Ceritanya mau tobat dulu buat jalan-jalan, tapi harga murah bener-bener bikin ngiler. Akhirnya sempet hunting tiket lagi, OH NO!
Looking up...Argh, akhirnya saya coba-coba sendiri deh, untung saja masih termasuk CSS dasar, jadi bisa saya kira-kira dulu. Untung sekitar setengah jam kemudian internet menyala lagi dan saat saya cek ternyata kerjaan saya lumayan mirip dengan tutorialnya. Huehehe ternyata saya bisa juga...
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Day 1
Decide on the one service you will offer. I emphasize picking only one specific service because without freelance experience, you are probably not already highly skilled in the area you want to freelance in. Even if you have been practicing it as a hobby for a long time, providing that skill as a service is a different challenge. If you are wanting to freelance in web design, don’t offer everything and the kitchen sink to begin with (complete design + front-end code). Provide PSD mockups only. If you’re more on the dev side of things, start with some code slicing jobs. If you want to write, start with one specific kind of writing. This approach will help you become skilled in the service you provide very quickly. Since you want to be taking on your first client in 30 days, it’s crucial that you develop your skills to an adequate level. Once you become comfortable with providing that one service, you will naturally expand what you offer.
Perlu dijelaskan dari awal, bahwa saya adalah tipe orang yang memiliki banyak ketertarikan dalam mempelajari suatu bidang baru, terutama dalam lingkup seni dan desain. Perlu saya tekankan juga pada kata "mempelajari", bukan "menekuni". It's a gift, ...and a curse. Just like Monk said."The program is designed to be completed while you are working full-time, either by dedicating a couple of hours in the evening or mornings, or working on the program over the weekend. It should be combined with daily hands-on practice in the skill you want to freelance in, particularly if you are a novice in that skill. If you are a novice, don’t delay the program until you feel you are ‘good’ enough. The emphasis is on selling a very specific skill that you can become good at in a short period of time. 30 days practicing one hour a day is more than enough time to develop a specific service that you are good enough at to sell."Saya langsung *TRING!* (baca: terinspirasi)
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”- Henry Miller
"I find it interesting that there is something in everybody, a longing for something transcendent, particularly in a place like Mt. Prospect, a place that’s very suburban and normal and plain. Even in places like that, there’s this desire to shine. That’s fascinating and very funny to me, especially when people try to accomplish this through show choir – which, to me, is inherently a little ridiculous."Skrip Glee sendiri selesai ditulis pada tahun 2005, tapi baru ada yang tertarik setelah beberapa tahun kemudian.
"Mulai 1 April 2010, UU Pajak Pertambahan Nilai (PPN) dan Pajak Penjualan Barang Mewah (PPnBM) yang baru mulai berlaku. Salah satu isi UU bernomor 42 Tahun 2009 ini adalah pembebasan PPN pada makanan dan minuman yang dibeli di hotel, restoran, rumah makan, warung dan sejenisnya."Berarti kita bisa nolak kalo ditagih bayar PPN 10% klo lagi makan di restoran ya? Asik juga nih. Yang saya penasaran, para pemilik restoran udah tau tentang UU ini apa belum ya?
Your Lead RolE:
MOTIVATORYou begin by asking:
'How can I raise the energy?'You are acutely aware of the energy in the room, and you feel compelled to do what you can to elevate it. You do this with your outlook—you are an instinctively optimistic person.
Your best quality:
Your infectious energyAlways:
Step in and take responsibility for the groupBe careful you:
Don’t get sucked dry by emotional vampiresYour smartest career move:
Any job where you’re paid to keep a group of people excited.Your SUPPORTING RolE:
TEACHERYou begin by asking:
'What can she learn from this?'Your focus is instinctively toward the other person. Not her feelings, necessarily, but her understanding, her performance, her skills.
Your best quality:
Your faith in the others’ potentialAlways:
Tailor your style to each studentBe careful you:
Don’t come to believe that everyone is capable of everythingYour smartest career move:
Any job where you’re paid to facilitate the success of others.
Okay, it's nice to know that, hehehe...
"Society boxes you in and restricts your movements to their expectations. It’s like the matrix. And any deviation is considered abnormal and weird. ...
Years ago, at the height of the economy, a book called the “The Secret” came out. According to The Secret, if you just wish and want hard enough, you’ll get what you want. But the real secret is that you get what you want when you do what you want.
Life is what you make it out to be.
Life is yours to create."
