6 Steps to Freelancing Like a Boss 

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Freelancer of 5 years here. I would definitely suggest taking 50-100% of your payment upfront. Many clients will try to avoid paying you. Taking 0% upfront can be a recipe for disaster.

As a freelance graphic designer, for the love of god, DO NOT use upwork, freelancer, fiverr, 99designs, or anything else like that. It is nearly impossible to make a comfortable living doing work from those websites. The value of work is so devalued, and the competition so high, that you are likely to make less than minimum wage. Not to mention that most of the work will be taken by high school students for next to nothing. I am college educated, and sites like that put my work at the same value as a 14 year old with photoshop. Most of the clients on the website are not business that are willing to pay you what you as a professional are worth, but instead moms wanting a poster for their daughters sweet 16 birthday. The reason sites like that exist are specifically for that purpose. Let the 14 year old do trashy work for the people who want something simple and don't care about quality. If you are serious about becoming a freelancer who can actually pay the bills and have a comfortable life style, especially in the creative field, make connections with business, get yourself recognized by industry leaders. If you are interested in doing freelance art/design and don't want/unable to get a degree, invest your time making yourself better than the people who did go. It is by no means necessary, but a degree in the art and design world means that you buckled down and did the work necessary to get that degree. It means that you have put in your 10,000 hours and then some. Which means that you have to show the world that you did so on your own. Skillshare, Lynda, and other sites like that are great for beginners, but won't put a flame to what art students need to do. So do the online classes, and then keep learning. Some of the best designers I've worked with didn't go to art school, but they all worked as hard as an art student. If you ARE in art school, and want to be a freelancer, make use of the resources that you have. Press yourself as hard as you can in your classes. Talk with your professors as much as possible, they are often your first industry connection and will refer you to people. Most art colleges have a career service dept, USE IT. Enter into as many design competitions as possible. Start freelancing right now. You will make money and build connections in a relatively stable time of your life. Take business classes. My art school had half of a business minor built into the gen ed curriculum, and made it really easy to get a business minor. if your school doesn't have business classes, then teach yourself, I would recommend checking out books from your library. online classes as mentioned before will give a great starting point too, but you have to work beyond it too. I believe in all of you!

03:29 This should be a GIF. Make it rain!

I always have wanted to try something like freelancing or even starting a small business. It always feels like something I can do until it gets to all the government registration and taxes you'll have to worry about, and then it just feels like a massive discouragement. Is it really hard to get all that set up or am I overreacting to it all?

Woo Bad With Money shoutout!

thank you, it´s very useful🤗

This freelancer is still in bed on RU-vid at 8.45am.

i didn't expect gaby to deal with this kind of stuff, but now that i think about it, makes sense.

The "make it rain" shot had me rolling :P

Its a good episode but somehow I feel like she is talking to the viewer like we are small children. Maybe its just me.

I have to say that I love the idea of this video and the channel as a whole but I think that the tone in which these advises are presented is completely childish which makes me feel like I am being patronized.

I do the job, and then I get paid.

Its good just... sound less patronising please x.x the bear is cute but the voice isn't

The only freelance work I've ever had is babysitting... still counts.

Please don't get me wrong, it's not to be mean per se, but I like everything about the channel except the presenter. I hope she gets replaced but I also hope she finds tons of success elsewhere. Peace.

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