Overview
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Provides tools and insights for self-employed designers just starting out.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Disclaimer
- Exercise files
- Definition of a freelancer
- Ongoing models of freelancing
- Temporary models of freelancing
- Why agencies and clients hire freelancers
- Managing expectations
- Required forms and quarterly payments
- Finding an accountant and a bookkeeper
- Tracking business expenses
- Subcontractor versus employee
- Understanding business licenses
- General principles
- Signing nondisclosure agreements (NDA) and work-for-hire agreements
- Contracts with agencies
- Contracts with clients
- Using standard conditions of agreement
- Coping with revisions and change orders
- Finding and keeping good clients
- Getting a great start when working directly with the client
- Protocol for correspondence and meetings
- Challenges freelancers face with agencies
- Challenges agencies face with freelancers
- Taking credit for work with agencies
- General bookkeeping setup
- Invoicing and purchase orders
- Creating past-due notices
- Managing nonpayment situations
- Establishing and maintaining business relationships
- Working "on spec"
- Learning to say no
- Staying motivated and inspired
- Next steps
