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Clients from hell: How to navigate nightmarish scenarios as a freelancer

Creative Boom

Image licensed via Adobe Stock The worst clients can turn your life into something out of a horror movie. We outline four common types of nightmare clients and explain how to deal with them. We're talking about those clients you simply hate working with. Clients who ended up making your professional life a nightmare.

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Spring forward: creative strategies to help your design studio blossom

Creative Boom

In this article, we'll explore innovative strategies to help your design studio blossom, ensuring you stay ahead of the curve and captivate clients with your exceptional work. Update your website, social media profiles, and online portfolios with your most recent and captivating projects.

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How To Improve Your Photography Brand to Get More Clients

Just Creative

This article has been contributed by Jayce Redford. And there are many reasons why many of them are losing a steady client base. Not only will the client look at their portfolio, but also require that photographers have some form of guarantee for their work. Attract new clients. Branding can also foster familiarity.

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Fresh tools to help creatives run their freelance practice in 2024

Creative Boom

I'm looking forward to using it for more client projects in the future." We're big fans too, and you can read more about the tool in this article we wrote about it last summer. It's another favourite of Haruko Hayakawa, who says: "I love Miro for brain dumping and collaboratively working with clients."

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How to juggle multiple projects as a creative

Creative Boom

How do you strike the right balance and stop work from taking over when balancing multiple projects? We asked the creative community for advice and share their best advice in the article below. Most projects have check-in points with the client, so ticking off achieving these feels really good and keeps me motivated.

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Creatives reveal when they made a fool of themselves, and the lessons they learned

Creative Boom

Indeed, as designer Laurie Rosenwald points out in her article Why and how to make mistakes on purpose , they're basically key to developing your creativity and growing your practice. Then in walked Kendrick, with his entourage and project manager, to see a pasty-white, fully-grown man on all fours, topless, on the brink of tears."

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What's the reality of freelancing, and is it right for me?

Creative Boom

To present a balanced picture, this article will delve into the world of freelancing and see both sides. If you're good at what you do, eventually, multiple clients will start beating down your door, and you won't be able to take all of it on. Over the long term, you'll want to diversify your client base as much as possible.

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