Freelancing By Design: Essential Strategies and Proven Tactics To Build a Thriving Freelance Business From Your Creative Work (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798995300403)

HOW TO SHIFT FROM CREATIVE INTO CREATIVEPRENEUR

Design schools teach you how to build a portfolio but not how to build a business. When you aspire to work as an independent creative you can either learn on your own or from someone who has successfully navigated the freelance road. Alvalyn Lundgren presents practical insights and proven tactics gleaned from years of freelancing. She makes the case that your work as an entrepreneurial designer, illustrator, or photographer is vital to the economy and transformational for the clients you serve. Beginning with why and how your creative work matters both relationally and spiritually, she guides you in building your freelance business on a foundation of Mission, Mindset, Mechanics and Messaging so you can thrive long term as a "creativepreneur" in the expanding freelance economy. How-tos include:

- Discovering your mission and values

- Setting up your business legally

- Budgeting, pricing and getting paid

- Attracting the right clients

- Writing contracts and proposals

- Protecting your work with copyright

- Managing projects and relationships

- Avoiding debt and paying taxes

- Using technology ethically

- Integrating work and personal life