8 Best Freelance Business Online Resources
Are you looking to feed your brain with all the freelance business information you can handle?
Look no further.
Escape From Illustration Island brings you the Top 8 Freelance Business Resources to be found online, in no particular order. The sites on this list will keep you busy for months with articles, interviews, and advice to help you start or expand your business. With all of these resources collected in one place, your biggest challenge will be choosing where to begin.
See you on the other side!
Business of Design Online (BoDo)
A Blog containing practical business advice from professionals in the design field.
Articles, information, and community for freelancers, entrepreneurs, and work-at-home business owners.
Blog, forums, job directory, and the Freelance Radio Podcast.
An online magazine providing advice and resources for the independent workforce.
National association dedicated to helping small business owners form and grow their businesses.
One-stop shop for business success founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs.
Articles, tutorials, tips, tricks, news items, design job openings, and live design discussions for creative professional freelancers.
A worldwide community that unites various creative disciplines for collective promotion, education and ethical business practice.
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This is a good collection of resources, a couple of which I wasn’t aware of. As I’m currently considering whether to transition to freelance that’s very timely!
many thanks for sharing them :-)
For the freelance photo industry try http://www.1ProPhoto.Com & http://www.1Procrew.Com a resource for photographers to find photo assistants, digital techs and lighting technicians.
Currently the largest such database in the world, and still FREE after 12 years.
JamesNYC.
Nice list! There are more resources available online which can help you in establishing your online business such as Elance, LimeExchange, Odesk, Guru etc. These freelance job websites offer a huge number of freelance projects and tools to enhance you business.
Thanks for those additions. I think the sites you mentioned work at varying degrees of success, but I guess that’s true for just about everything. Different sites work differently for different people.
Thanks for the Freelancer Magazine mention, Thomas! Quick note, we’re planning on launching a community news section in the next month or so. Will give other indie publishers an avenue to promote their writings, and offer our readers an expanded our content base.
Keep up the great writing here, too
JC
There are other excellent freelance platforms around the Globe. Check out my site to find out more. Regards.
Great list!! I have one to add: The Design Cubicle http://www.thedesigncubicle.com
Not to be overly self-promotional, but I have a bunch of business tips over at my blog: http://www.artofbusinessblog.com
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I just started using http://www.outright.com which is an amazingly easy and FREE (yay!!) way to keep track of your bookkeeping. It imports your credit card so you can auto track your expenses and you can link it to your pay pal or freshbooks too.
until now I had been doing everything excel. this is so much better.