A Teenager’s Guide to Effective Freelancing
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Yesterday, I gave a talk at a web conference called Tomorrow’s Web. I gave a summary of some of the conference talks here.
The reason I did this talk is because I am concerned that young web designers and developers are jumping into freelancing without much thought, and then discovering how much of a minefield it can be. So I decided to cover things like how to set up, what sort of problems young freelancers come across, and what I’ve learned from the mistakes I’ve made. I hope you find it useful.
Big thanks to Perch and Littlesnapper who provided me with prizes to give out to people who stayed awake during the talk.
Here’s an unedited video of the first set of talks. Mine is 01:06:45 in. I’m hoping an edited version will be available soon.
Here are my slides. If you want to read the notes that go with the slides, click through to the slideshare site.
Here are two YouTube videos that were filmed by Meaghan of the talk.
4 Comments on “A Teenager’s Guide to Effective Freelancing”
August 11th, 2009 at 11:56 am
I’m so annoyed I couldn’t make Tomorrows Web now. I came back from holiday the Wednesday before and there were no tickets left to go :( It’s also a bit of a pain to get from Cheshire to London. Ah well, maybe next year?
August 13th, 2009 at 5:43 am
Great recap Hermione! That was some lovely pitch-judging I saw from you there ;-)
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