Comments on: How to Make Money as a Freelance Designer

By: Alex Garcia

Alex Garcia — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 11:19:11 +0000

Very interesting article, especially as I am thinking of getting together with an experienced Spanish designer friend of mine who moved to London on account of the Spanish econ. mess! He had his own studio in Madrid and I work on ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING as regards to a company’s identity and marketing; paper or otherwise, in-the-post, on-line, on-foot, on-a-bike, in-house for my own travel and tours company in London, so I’m VERY aware of what it takes to start out on your own, and I like it…! We’ll be on the work path soon…

By: Warren

Warren — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:33:43 +0000

Awesome article. A great help for starters… Great work!

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By: Alx

Alx — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:33:36 +0000

A wonderfull and educative article. I started freelancing about 6 months ago and I have managed to build a small income for now.
@LILI Those are some amazing words and I feel exactly the same and I follow it too :) thanks a lot :)

By: Billy

Billy — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:45:43 +0000

Thanks for all the great advice. I was thinking about becoming a freelancer, just that I had some doubts.

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By: Lili

Lili — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 13:06:18 +0000

Hi. My husband and I have been involved with computers, online marketing, seo, web development for over 20 yrs now. I have always worked for myself and he works for a company at the moment. I have finally convinced him to get an agency up and going so he can quit the job he hates. Anyway, my point being I have a lot of experience in the “sales” of this type of service, and I have to tell you all when you are experienced and only charge $35 – $75 and hour not only are you doing yourself a disservice but you are also doing the rest of us in the industry a disservice. Our standard rate is $150 per hour no exceptions. If you have over 7yrs experience this is what you should be charging. If you can’t make a simple brochure site in 5-10 hours for the local pizza place up the road so they can actually afford your fees, you have no business in this business. I have been reading posts of don’t expect to make more than $35k a year. Are you all just not marketing yourselves properly? If you are not making 6 figures you are doing something wrong. Take some marketing and sales courses, and never ever sell yourself short. If someone wants a $500 dollar site and you can’t design it in 5 hours or less, tell them to seek out a student or one of the many non American workers that elance lets bid for 5 dollars an hr. (elance should be ashamed of themselves) People will pay if you behave like you are worth it and know what your doing. As for taxes being self employed gives you tremendous breaks and with all of our write offs we have yet to pay one penny. You can’t be meek in this business, and you can have a life too. All of our clients know that weekend is family time. Two days isn’t going to kill them to wait, it’s not the end of the world. Assert yourself but in a professional manner and your clients will respect you. Act like you are desperate, or beholden and they will take advantage of you, and never never do “sample” work or if you do charge them a mock up fee. What we do is charge this fee and tell them if they decided to use us that fee will get deducted from their total. Ok I’m done. Good luck and one more thing. Treat this like a business not a hobby.

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By: Jez

Jez — Sat, 14 May 2011 23:39:53 +0000

Great set of tips, really haven’t found anything like this on the web, will be following up on this.

I mean I dabble in Server technical work myself (just the lacking security part), but I do have a bit of experience with application based security.

Been doing a bit too much actual developing and very little designing, it’s quite therapeutic shall I say to get back into designing I think.

It’s more like a mindset for me doing CSS and cross browser compatibility.

But the part where you get clients you don’t like or ones where you bend over backwards for, especially with the 9-5, I was working once on a DNS server in Linux (Bind 9 actually) for someone on a Saturday from 7am, about 3pm for them didn’t finish until 3am the Sunday morning.

Great set of tips, I work contracted as well as freelancing, it’s a great combination, expands my skill sets no end, now developing databases for people.

By: Clint

Clint — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:19:45 +0000

Great article. I think this would apply to any type of freelance position. I’m close to making the jump from full-time job to freelance web developer. Have about 3 clients right now, one being a big corporation. Wish me luck.

By: Lebo

Lebo — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 10:06:56 +0000

The article is really an eye openner indeed I got to upskill myself more before I get out the on the market as a freelancer but I can surly can help in soursing out client in my area

By: Roberto Blake

Roberto Blake — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:36:20 +0000

I love that this article was so detailed and well thought out. You addressed a lot of information for freelancers to consider and a great list of resources that not all of us have used before. Thanks for a great post.

By: Veneta

Veneta — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:34:08 +0000

Great article…I miss my days as a freelancer and working in my pijamas :))
Almost nothing to add…except good SEO when the site is alreay out there.

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Jenniffer — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:05:46 +0000

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