Mar 16, 2012
CFC 2012: Planning for the First Year of Freelance?
As we get ready for the 5th Annual Creative Freelancer Conference, June 21-22 in Boston, we’re doing a podcast interview series with our speakers! Recently, we featured Dyana Valentine and Mark O’Brien. Today, we have Shane Pearlman, describing his upcoming session, “Planning for the First Year of Freelance.”
Read an excerpt below and listen to the 10-minute interview, in which Shane talks about the biggest mistakes he sees freelancers make, and more.
When it comes to being a successful freelancer, there are three areas that stick in Shane’s head:
* how to make the money (sales, marketing, contacts)
* how to keep the money you made (track time, manage contacts, bookkeeping)
* how to be happy and balance it all
In his session, he’ll describe how to succeed in each of these areas.
In addition to the road to success, we also talked about common mistakes that freelancers make.
Shane said,
“Another mistake I see all the time—this is probably the most common—is…