I am here with Bejan from artisan talent who runs talent agency you see hundreds if not
thousands of jobs go past through your business every year.
(Sure) so tell me, give me the secrets here.
How to get freelance work?
What are the key things?
Well, the key thing in terms of getting freelance work is that you really have to have a good
presence online and that really means that a website that works very well.
You can have your own personal identity.
You can go to LinkedIn.
You can also register with places like Behance or Coroflot or those types of websites that
can show off your portfolio.
Okay cool so if I want to go and find my own freelance gigs (right) I can register on these
various websites the ones you just mentioned.
So, how to get these freelance projects?
Is there anything that I can just Google?
I mean it is just the simplest doing some general searches on yahoo and Bing.
Yes you can certainly do that.
You can go to yahoo.
You can go to Bing.
You can go to Google of course and maybe even YouTube and try to see if there's something
out there for you but the difficulty is you know who are these people that you are trying
to solicit from?
Are these actual legitimate businesses?
Are these people trying to just get ideas from you and not pay you?
So there is a lot of things out there that you really should be careful of.
Okay, cool so what would be on your top list of things to look out for when it comes to
how to get a freelance job?
I think if you are on your own there is a lot of things that can go wrong.
Especially if you don't have a good contract written for yourself what can happen is you
can do the work, you can build a client and you don't get paid at the end of it or you
are waiting 60, 90, 120 days to get paid as a freelancer that's very difficult.
From a cash for standpoint, you really can't afford to do that.
Yeah now that makes total sense to me.
Okay cool and with that in mind one thing you have to do if you are out on your own,
out in the world, trying to get freelance work is you need to build a freelance proposal.
Let's say you get someone who says I want you to build my website or do my social media.
You need to build a proposal.
What are the some other things to look out for there that should you know definitely
be in that proposal and cover your ass.
I would say payment terms or key aspect and regards the actual project.
What are the key elements that you are committing to?
Are there going to be revisions?
How many takes are there going to be.
I mean those are all those details that you would need to really put into that contract.
If you don't do that you can get caught.
And at the end not get paid and that's the worst thing for anybody that's in the creative
field.
Okay cool so thank you I appreciate this would got now a whole lot of sort of different tips
on how to get freelance work (right) what to look out forward some of the . Of course
we are going to talk about the shortcut to relieve you of all of this pain.
(Right) which is to list with an agency like artisan talent (sure) can you tell me what
it's like to work instead of on your own out in the world with all those things to look
out for?
(Right) what is it that listing with artisan would bring to the table?
I think I would say on top of what you may be already, may already have you may have
your own clients and your own contacts.
But we are another avenue to get work and an easier way an easier option.
Of course depending on your talent to what you bring to the table and if we have that
ability to make that match with the client, we can get you work.
You may come in one day and we can get you out the next day and you will get paid the
actually by the following week.
So, you really don't have to worry about all the minutiae of invoicing, taxes, contracts
any of that.
So we really take care of all that all the stuff that most designers and digital people
don't want to deal with.
Yeah that makes total sense to me.
(Right) If I am a designer I just want to design.
I don't want to be dealing with my 1099 so I think there was a pomp in this somewhere
that is nicely.
Exactly, creative.
So tell me I know you guys work quiet broadly in terms of the freelance discipline short
cover.
(Sure) what are some of the major pillows, the different disciplines that you guys can
get gigs for?
Well we definitely working on for graphic designers, art directors, writers and then
we get on to the digital side meaning web designers, web developers, usable experience
people, people, front end developers and it goes on to marketing and it goes to video
and photography and motion graphics.
So it really does cover broad spectrum but it's really staying in the creative digital
and marketing space.
Alright cool so thanks that all sounds very appealing to me of course it would.
What would be a great first step if I want to reach out and connect with you guys?
The best step would really to go to our website, register online.
You can certainly call us.
And we have a good network in terms of from a social media aspect from twitter to Facebook
to LinkedIn and we are there.
You can find us quite easily.
Alright cool and I find you, I reach out, you connect me with a talent rap and bobs
your uncle the whole things in play.
Yes it can be that easy.
Alright sounds really good thanks to your advice here.
I appreciate it thank you.