Unit 24 - Manage and Market Own Freelance Services.

This is Design Crowd, where I will find relevent contacts from within the creative industry whilst I am doing my freelance work. I will identify with relivent contacts and maintain these contacts.

This is where I will find my freelance work, I will browse through different projects including logo design, flyers etc, until I find one that I am interested in doing, and I can find out all the relivent information, for example how much they are offering for the winning design, how long the competition is open for and how many designs have been submitted so far. Once I have found one I want to do I can begin the design process.

This is is my Facebook page I have created for my work in order to promote it, and to get it in the public eye, promoting my services and to enhance my profesional reputation, I also have a Twitter account for my work too. I used social networking sites to promote my work because just about everyone uses either Facebook or Twitter and its a great way to promote yourself.

 This is Gumtree, and this is another place in which I can use to find freelance work, as well as Design Crowd.






Normally my weekends consist of me waking up, going to work for two hours on a Saturday morning, and then socialising for the rest of the weekend, if I don't have any other commitments for said weekend. However lets say I was presented with a job and I had till Monday morning to complete it, my routine would have to change in order for me to complete the task in time for the deadline. For example I would wake up at 9 o'clock, go to work for 10 and finish up at 12, I would get home and have some lunch, and then do 3 hours of work, have a break, and then do 3 hours more work, so I have done 6 hours of work that day, then if I am satisfied with the amount of work I have gotten through for that day will I consider doing something social, and then I will take the same routine on the Sunday, minus going to work in the mornings, and if after the 6 hours of work on the Sunday I haven't completed it, I will carry on till I have with appropriate breaks inbetween. I understand that to be successfull I have to prioritise my workload, and if I have work to be done before a certain date, that has to be my priority and I have to come up with a routine which will allow me to complete it.