If you’re a freelancer, you know that your existence comes down to chasing after lots of client engagements, projects, gigs, whatever you want to call them. If you stop working for any reason (illness, travel, you just want or need a break) then the income stops. Adding products to the mix can be a really great way to add small (but potentially large!) streams of income that you can count on month after month. I’ll talk about using your talents and strengths to create products (ebooks, themes/templates, photography/artwork, plugins/apps, membership sites) that will appeal to an audience and generate sales. Remember, even if you only create a $100/week product, it only takes 5 or 6 of those to really start making a big difference in the way you work and live. This isn’t about creating a "four hour workweek" or some other hyped BS, this is about creating repeatable, realistic income streams.
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Freelancers: You’re Five Products Away From Freedom
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Freelancers: You’re Five Products Away From Freedom
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Freelancers: You’re Five Products Away From Freedom
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audio recording of “From Freelance to Agency: Start Small, Stay Small”
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“From Freelance to Agency: Start Small, Stay Small”
A panel at SXSW Interactive 2009 featuring Roger Black (founder of agencies huge and small), Kristina Halvorson (freelancer turned agency head), and Whitney Hess (agency pro turned freelance), and moderated by Jeffrey Zeldman. From http://www.zeldman.com/2009/03/30/freelance-to-agency-podcast/
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The Refrigerator Speaks: The Secret Language of Things
"Why have smart refrigerators failed to take hold? Where are the smart tables that were supposed to fill our homes? Smart products with embedded sensors are poised to share their intelligence, but lack of connections among products and services have limited their usefulness. Until now. In this session, we will showcase emerging smart products and break down the design and technology that will separate the wheat from the chaff. We’ll examine the connections these products will make with our lives by bringing more sensibility to sensor-based products."