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Freelance Romance - June 2011 | Lavender Web Design

Freelance Romance - June 2011

Posted by: Robert Lavender on Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

Hoults Yard, a great buzz about the place with so many creative businesses working there. This event was held in a two adjoining empty brick warehouses. Kindly provided courtesy of Charlie Hoult.

No natural light but lit with red lights it made for an interesting environment and the huge graffiti on the walls in the second room provided the perfect creative hang out. The first room was used for networking the second room had rows of chairs in preparation for the nights presentations.

The Presentations

The presentations were kept short and sweet, and yet every one of them had useful tips which was impressive as two of the talks were on tax and law.

ATTITUDE: WHAT MAKES A SERIOUS FREELANCER?
Ryan Foster, RyanFosterDesign

Communication with clients is key, and managing client expectations.
Workflow & Organisation.
Ryan uses Fresh Books to quote for jobs as well as invoicing. This gives him the ability to quickly run reports on his business his predicted profit and loss.
He uses Basecamp for keeping projects running smoothly and to enable good client communication.

RECRUITMENT AGENCIES: FRIEND OR FOE
Jo Carter, Concept Personnel

Wealth of knowledge about the creative industry in the region, Jo was encouraging people to pick her brains. By getting to know your recruitment agent you will access to their network.

TAX ESSENTIALS FOR BUSINESS
Sarah Arnold, RMT

Comparing Freelance with a Limited Company and the differences. The pro’s and con’s of working for as a freelancer plus some good tips for what to watch out for so you don’t fall foul of the tax man. Good advice on how to manage your business finances. Plus RTM offer a free 1 hour consultation.

LEGAL INSIGHT: KEEP IT SIMPLE BUT GET IT RIGHT
Jonathan Waters, Hay & Kilner

Make sure that you outline the terms and conditions with the client before undertaking any work. Going to court to settle disputes is expensive.

 

Summary

Freelance Romance was probably one of the best events that I’ve been to for networking. They made it very easy for everyone by providing us all with a list of suggested people that we should meet based on criteria that we supplied them with beofre the event. The clever part of Freelance Romance is that everyone has interconnecting skills within the creative industry, so that makes it very straight forward to find people with skills that you may require or people that need the skills that you have to offer. Throw a couple of established companies looking for freelancers into the mix and you have a winning combination.

 

Find out more at www.freelanceromance.co.uk

About the author

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Robert studied graphic design and then interactive design at college and university. Initally finding his feet in the world of work creating graphics for television idents, before turning his hand to creating the company website. This began his love affair with the web. Rob loves to get stuck up to his eye balls in photoshop layers and occasionally likes to frazzle his brain with PHP and Javascript.

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