Sunday, July 20, 2008

I'm searching for an independant job, any ideas

I'm searching for an independant job, any ideas??
Does anyone no of any freelance or indepedant jobs? For example: having your own online website store, being a painter, an artist, being an author. Any ideas of some independant jobs?
Drawing & Illustration - 3 Answers
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I'm all of those (freelance, artist, author and online store keeper) and I do make a living at it working every day. Suggestion: If you can write about topics you know a bit about, and you are good at finding excellent links and resources online, try blogging. For starters, check out Squidoo - it's free and easy to sign up and use. You can sell products from many places plus you can earn money from the Google ads they automatically add to the "lens" as they call their topical blog pages.
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Since many people office at home, they often find that they need publications designed. Although in theory they can design their own work, most of them really don't understand the programs and they end up with generic looking stuff. What I would do is look at local companies like Kinko's, Alphagraphics, UPS stores and see if they would be willing to post referrals for design work. You would need to have some examples available and you would need some advice on how to set rates in your area. If you are skilled at writing, you can also do this with designing resumes for people. There are a wide range of things that you can design-invitations, flyers, signs, pamphlets, ads-small businesses don't have the staff to do a good job on that kind of stuff. You would need to have the right kind of software and computer to be able to generate and distribute work. And I highly suggest you seek some legal help to work out a basic contract for any work that you do. Get it in writing. Early on in my career, I got stiffed for payment by some big companies simply because I trusted them.
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Put your mouth over the spigot. Really! Capture the need at the source. You will be flush with work if you go down to the city hall and hang out by the office which issues new business licenses. They need EVERYTHING. You can;t possibly need more that a week or two of leads there. or if you are more comfortable online - troll gigs on craigslist.com.Referral work is one project away. Good Luck

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