Comments on: 5 Essentials Of A Freelance Web Site

By: spikethelobster

spikethelobster — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:06:45 +0000

Busse: I considered Google Mail back when it launched, but their vague “we promise never to give out your details or spam you even though we’ll have a bot read through everything in your inbox” put me off. A couple of years later and “oh, we’ve changed management now, so all the old promises are defunct” came along. Glad I avoided it.

Randy: Glad to have you with us, and especially that you’ve decided to join the fray. I’m very lucky with visitors – not only are they all personable and experienced, but as demented as I.

Paul: I really like your gallery of samples – a brilliant idea and a massive time saver for people looking for someone to do what you do. They don’t have to faff around with contacting you before they get to see how good you are. Smart move!

Steven: Teaching adolescents is, I’m sure, some sort of demonic karma payback device – or at the very least a leftover of ancient torture methods. Give me the iron maiden any day.

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:48:30 +0000

“Yes, I know I harp on about it all the time. Say what you will about the way language changes and evolves (and no, I’m not going to get into that discussion again), but a potential client is unlikely to hire you if your entire site is written in txtspk.”

Yeah, I hate those arguments, too. Quite frankly, I’ve concluded that they’re not worth carrying on.

btw, sorry about the death of your earnings blog.

You should try being an English teacher. Last week a 7 or 8 year old girl piped up after I’d written something on the board: “Teacher! You spelt ‘feed’ wrong! It’s f-e-e-d, not f-e-d!” ugh.

I recently applied for an editing job with a school. It was replied to, in effect, that they were looking for business degree/MBA holders. What the hell does editing English have to do with a business degree? When in uni, I edited engineering articles for graduate students. What the hell do I know about engineering? It turns out, about roughly the same as what they know about English.

How’s your quest for making a living on freelancing going, Spike?

By: paulhassing

paulhassing — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:27:32 +0000

What a lovely surprise, Spike!

I was literally reading this post thinking: ‘Oooer I ‘ope there’s nowt wrong with MY site…’ and, blow me down, you go and mention me in dispatches!

A wonderful start to my day. And your post wasn’t half bad either. Many thanks indeed! P.

By: Randy Pena

Randy Pena — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:27:42 +0000

You know, I have to tell you, I really enjoy this blog and the insight from everyone who participates. I find it to be refreshing and very informative. I wish there were more blogs like it. Anyway, I felt it was about time I posted, I�ve spent most of my time here just lurking and reading, but today for some reason I just felt compelled to say this.

By: busse

busse — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:05:08 +0000

Good tips! Regarding #1 “Contact” — I’ve found that Gmail’s anti-spam filters are so effective that I no longer fear putting my email address out there unmasked. I’ve also found that I do still get spam on contact forms (especially Ess Eee Oh scammers)

For branding/identity purposes, if you don’t want to have “@gmail.com” there is the Google Apps / Gmail (for domains) STANDARD EDITION which lets you use your domain name, and is free under a certain number of people (50 or something like that):

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html