Unable to Keep Up — Now Hiring

July 18, 2008 · Filed Under Building Relationships, Customer Service, Now Hiring, WordPress · Comment 

Dear Readers,

UPDATE: This position has been filled.

I feel like I have let you down. I have put together this website to write articles about things that help me in my freelance career and make me as successful as I am at it. To help you, my readers make the best out of your career. I wanted to give you week starter tips on Mondays, and Tips for Tuesdays, but I was unable to keep up with it because of the amount of work I have accumulated as a freelancer.

I am so consumed in my clients that I have been unable to keep up with this site, and for that I am sorry. I know that my readers deserve better and I will try and provide better for you.

On the other hand, I am hiring! Yes thats right, hiring. Below are the specifications.

  • WordPress Expertise REQUIRED
  • PHP/xHTML/CSS Expertise REQUIRED
  • Graphic Design is a plus, but not required
  • W3C Valid Standards is REQUIRED
  • Professionalism on ALL aspects
  • You will not deal directly with clients
  • Able to meet specified deadlines on projects
  • Able to provide near bug-free products
  • Ability to be paid via PayPal
  • MUST RESIDE IN THE UNITED STATES

If you feel you are up to the task, I have work to keep you busy full time for a few years, and I always “go out” and get more work if it ever slows down.

Contact me at intend[.at.]google[.dot.]com, If you can’t figure out how to decipher this email address, you obviously should not be applying for the position.

– Casey

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Freelancer Tips: The Ultimate Freelance Guide

July 3, 2008 · Filed Under Building Relationships, Customer Service, General Freelancing, Helpful Tips, Project Management, Providing Support · 3 Comments 

Freelancing online today is harder than it use to be. The field is saturated with freelancers whose only goal is to rape and pillage their customers for every dollar they can squeeze while providing low quality services and virtually no support on their work. It’s hard for webmasters and customers to distinguish a good freelancer from a freelancer who just wants to take them on their money.

Following this list of tips and using these tools can help you become more successful, earn repeat and referral business, as well as great reviews and a good customer base. I have been freelancing for years but just recently started making it a full time stay at home job, and let me tell you what: I love it. Freelancing allows me to be at home with the family, spend more time with my fiance and less time driving to and from work. It allows me to work when I want to, rather than what hours I am given.

Now I thought that when I would start doing this from home full time that there would be a lot of distractions, and that I wouldn’t be able to put full focus into it but I was wrong. When you live with a big family this can be hard, especially when they don’t understand that you aren’t sitting at your computer all day browsing the web and reading funny jokes, but you’re actually sitting there making money, talking to clients, and getting things accomplished.

If however, you do live with a large family, be sure to have your own office in the house if at all possible. This will certainly help with the distractions of the family being around you all the time while you are working. If it’s just you and your fiance for instance, then this should not be a problem.

All right, let’s get down to the nitty gritty. What do we do and how do we do it.

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Building Customer Relationships while Freelancing

June 19, 2008 · Filed Under Building Relationships, General Freelancing, Helpful Tips · 1 Comment 

In my opinion, building customer relationships to make money freelancing is a very important thing. It helps build potential future revenue as the clients know that you will take care of them to the best of your ability on anything else they may need. A Loyal customer to me is better than having 50 customers. As a freelancer you don’t want to busy yourself with everyones projects.. It can be really hard to keep up only being a one person show.

My customers have been loyal to me for a few simple reasons, and I’ll list them below:

  1. I joke around and make friends with my customers
  2. I pay close attention to detail when working on a project
  3. I get personal with my customers and ask them how they are doing, or how their children are doing
  4. I make sure that I have assessed and taken care of all of their project needs, even if it is something they may have forgotten themselves
  5. I prioritize my customers so that every one of them get taken care of in an effecient and timely manner

All of the items above have helped me build customer relationships and allow me to help keep my customers loyal to me. Not only this, but they are so satisfied that they bring me tons of referral word of mouth based new clientele. Do you see what I mean ? $ ?

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