8th February 2010 / 3 Comments Business, Clients, Freelancing
When you’re a freelancer working for other design agencies sometimes its hard to know where you fit into the job let alone the company, especially if you’re surrounded with a team of full time employees. For most freelancers most of the time its a lonely job, you either spend time working from your home or office all alone from 9 til 5+ with only Loose Women, Cash in the Attic and Countdown for company, or at the clients HQ, hugging your laptop, keep yourself to yourself and pitching in with the odd small-talk remark here and there.
On the one hand your an outsider and purely their to fill a skill gap. You turn up, get your head down, do the job you agreed to do and leave. You’re happy, the client is ‘happy’ (or as happy as they’ll let on), you get paid and you’re on to the next job. If they liked you enough they’ll call you a few months later because they know you can get the job done and you’re rate is reasonable or they won’t bother and you’ll never hear from them again.
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23rd January 2010 / No Comments Portfolio, Work
To all the people that have come here recently looking for my portfolio I’m really sorry I haven’t managed to get this up yet.
Things have been super busy but I promise that I am working on it and will get it up as soon as possible. In the mean time if you want to see some examples of the projects I’ve been working on lately drop an email to lee {at} mrleesimpson.co.uk and I’ll send some over…
…and stay tuned for the feature length production.
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13th January 2010 / No Comments Blog, Development, website, Wordpress
Last week I completed and launched a new website for Media Sciences and Network Analytics company Dollywagon.
Company Director Jason Brownlee approached me to help him develop a clean simple website and blog to promote his business and act as an information portal for the services he provides.
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12th January 2010 / 8 Comments Business, Freelancing, Networking
I’m getting a lot of emails at the moment from people thinking about going into freelancing asking what the best move is to get those first load of clients. My answer is always the same, get out and network.
Sitting behind a desk promoting yourself on twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Flickr is all good and well, but nothing hits the spot like getting out, shaking some hands and swapping some business cards. A lot of freelance resources place emphases on developing your ’social network’ profile and using the social network tools to market what you do, but getting out into the real world and meeting potential clients is just as if not more important, especially if you want to grab those businesses who aren’t on the social media radar.
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7th January 2010 / 2 Comments Blogging, Business, KartelInc
About two years ago (February 2008) I launched a blog called KartelInc with the idea to publish content about ’street fashion and culture’ aimed at the UK market. The base of the blog was covering fashion and trends relating directly to fashion but the overall categories ranged from music and art to events, tech and features.
At the time I was reading a lot blogs and online magazines from across the pond such as HypeBeast, SlamxHype and FormatMag and I originally wanted to create something similar but that focused primarily on British culture that catered more to UK users by only featuring products that could be purchased in the UK. When I started I knew very little about blogging and how to develop a website based around content and most of what I planned to do and did was based around what I’d seen other people do.
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