10 Tips for Buying a Wide Format Printer

Source: Elevate Printing

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Tom Walker of Franking Machine Cartridges

You must consider several factors before purchasing a wide-format or large-format printer. You need to be printing the type of volume which justifies having a large-format printer on site. › Continue reading

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Establishing your first Home freelance Office

When starting your freelance business, selecting the right place to work can be daunting and very expensive. Establishing your office at home can be a great starting point. Here we give you 12 tips for selecting the right place. › Continue reading

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Free Project Management tools for freelancers

Do you wonder where all of your time goes? As freelancers, in addition to design, we are also the sales team, the support team, the copywriter and the accountant all in one person.

This may seem kind of overwhelming if you don’t have a good project management system. › Continue reading

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Start Fighting for your dreams

Starting Now may sound simplistic but it really is the most difficult step when we start freelancing or a new business. 5 months ago I wrote this post when this blog was just starting. Yesterday I read it and inspired me so much that I wanted to share it again. I rewrote some parts, you can read the full article here:

http://www.designerfreelance.net/start-now/

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10 tips to increase your Design and Freelance productivity

Productivity

One of the most important challenges of being your own boss is to focus long enough on a task until completion. Do not distract and finish your commitments in time, but there are too many distractions; email, banks, projects, etc.

For 10 years I have tried different methods, taken courses in management by objectives, use of agendas and only recently (6 months) I have  implemented a system that has increased my productivity by 40% at least. › Continue reading

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