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Useful Key Tips to Becoming a Successful Freelance Videographer

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By on Jan 27th, 2012

Tips for making good videos and start freelance career as a video grapher designer

A freelancer video graphic designer is an individual who have expertise in video production or video graphing, recording sound and moving images onto tape.

You’ve finally come to the conclusion that this may just be something you would like to do for a career. It can seem a little intimidating at first, because how are you going to convince someone to pay you to do this?Up until now you’ve been your only client. How do you get more? How to successfully launch your freelance career this year in video graphing. Here are some tips to start freelance career as a video graphic designer. Read more →

Establish Your Freelance Business Around WordPress

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By on Jan 20th, 2012

Freelancers can build their businesses around different things through wordpress

Are you one of those people who’d love to take the plunge into being self-employed? It’s a big step to take but it is one of the most satisfying steps in the world. If you’ve been tinkering for WordPress for a while and think that you might be able to make money with it, maybe you should try.

WordPress has been nothing short of spectacular for freelancers and clients alike. Of course, we all know it’s the go-to system for blogging, but these days it’s much more than that.

As someone who has made the shift from workhorse slogging away for the man to happy, shiny, My Little Pony, here’s my advice on making WordPress work for you.

In this post, I’d like to cover how different types of freelancers can build their businesses around this great piece of open-source software.
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GTime Tracking for Freelancers

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By on Jan 12th, 2012

Today we look at the most valuable tools out there to help freelancers manage project hours and billing, one of the effective, low-cost solutions.

How It Works

Install is a quick and painlessly delivered through the Adobe AIR system. GTime asks you to enter your Google account login credentials. From there onward you can create new timesheets or access existing ones. This timesheet is stored on Google’s servers as a spreadsheet, and its individual records are accessible either through the GTime software or direct on the web in your Google account.

There are two options for creating and categorizing a timed task, the first option and easiest for my style is to use GTime’s simple start / pause / stop timer. The ‘start task’ button helps you track timed tasks as you work on them, and immediately lets you enter that time record into your timesheet when you click ‘stop’. The entry I made showed the date, hours spent (1.45), and let me add a category (Graphic Design) and a task note (logo redesign for client X). The second option is to view all task records for a timesheet, and manually create and/or update the record of your choice. This works well for recording time spent away from your computer, like at a client meeting.

Recommendation

Overall, this utility does the trick for me – it saves me time from my current spreadsheet-input process, and is much cheaper than the competition at $20 USD for a single lifetime license.
I definitely recommend this tool for the individual freelancer who needs a better way to manage their time. Whether you’re billing clients by hour, or merely want to see an overview of where your time is spent in a given week, the 14-day trial of GTime is definitely worth a shot. You can download the free trial at http://gtimetracking.com and give it a whirl.

Product Features

Software works on PC, Mac and Linux platforms

Very fast install with no server software

Secure and reliable, with smooth usability

Start / pause / stop tray timer for recording tasks

Immediate and automatic synchronization between Google and GTime

Lowest-cost option vs. the competition

Leverage all the features offered by Google Docs

Export your timesheets from Google to Excel, Open Office, PDF, CSV, HTML, Text

Ability to share timesheets publicly, or privately with other Google users

Automatic timesheet backup and versioning

How to Start Freelance Photography

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By on Dec 30th, 2011

Freelance Photography

Freelance photography is a better option to enter freelance business. Pictures are ideal for capturing the most valuable moments that take place in our life. The facilities of current technology now let people to get pictures simply with the digital camera. All it takes would be some more skills and abilities then you can properly setup and start a home-based photography business. Learn how to begin a freelance photography business and you can surely make people happy.

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