I am here with Bejan from Artisan Talent.
We are talking about how to be a freelancer?
(Sure) so can you tell me how did you become a freelancer?
I guess you have to personally you have to decide whether or not that's the way you want
to go.
You can become a freelancer by just waking up in the morning deciding that you want to
become a freelancer.
(Right) and if you do make that decision there are lot of ways of getting jobs.
First you obviously want to go with your own network initially to figure out whether or
not you can help people with with what is it that you can deliver and then there is
the online that you can into and go on to Google or go on to Bing or Yahoo and try to
find jobs that were or you can go to the job boards and see if there's any jobs or you
can go on to these crowd sourcing places (right) like elance or i'm not sure.
I think I know a queue Elance, oDesk (right exactly) I think which is now upwork, freelancer.com,
all of these are sorts of places where these sort of work is available.
It's quite a few.
Yeah yeah!
Okay, so if I am going to Google I might be typing in some keywords like how to be a freelance,
oddest if I want to be an oddest how to be a freelance graphic designer?
How to be a freelance writer?
How to be a freelance web developer?
Yeah what are some of the different freelance disciplines that are kind of available if
you want to be a freelancer that come to your mind?
In our industry there are kind of jobs that were filling graphic designers and art directors
and writers and then we go onto the digital side where it's going to be web designers,
web developers, usability experienced people, mobile app developers, project managers, product
managers, I can go on but that's kind of world is.
Cool and I also think there is opportunities we were talking to some of your team social
media marketing, SEOs specialist.
It's like constantly kind of expanding / evolving.
Okay cool and let's say I want to be a freelancer and I have chosen my discipline.
What kind of clients can I expect?
What kind of projects can I expect?
Well with an agency such as ours, we really have all kinds of projects that we work on.
It could be a job that just last for a day or could be a contract that could be a year
to two years long contract.
Right and you guys do full time placements.
I would do full time placements.
I probably should say, you know, full disclosure (sure) that you do run an agency.
The job of your agency if I am summarizing it correctly is to take away all the pain.
So rather than having to go out to search on Google or list with one of those web sites
(right) and trying to figure out who you are, how you match in and how to get a gig?
(Sure) your agency kind of fills that need, is that right?
Yeah exactly we are good avenue to find more work or it really we can almost become your
agency of choice.
So if you're looking for work or you are in between the job or that you really choosing
to become a professional freelancer, we are the type of agency that you want to work with.
Okay cool and I understand you guys are pretty much across the United States.
Yeah What is a good first step for me if I want to come talk to you guys?
First step would be to go to our website, its artisantalent.com and or you can go through
social media routes on Twitter or Facebook or LinkedIn.
Of course you can make a phone call and we will answer the phone.
There is a human being on the other end.
So no robot calls?
No robot calls.
No press 17 to . No absolutely not.
Good alright great so makes a lot of sense to me and as out general tips to how to be
a freelancer out there is certainly you can go the hard path and do it all yourself or
you can list with an agency like Artisan and make all the pain go away.
That would be the choice.
Alright I appreciate your time, thank you.
Alright, thank you.