freelancing in the industry - stay tuned to listen to my 10 tips for freelancing

in graphic design

what is up people welcome back to satori graphics home of graphics and

content right here on YouTube now last week I made a video on ways that you can

earn money as a graphic designer they're not a relation to freelancing they

mainly evolved passive income so you want to check out that video go back on

my channel and have a look today however we couldn't be looking at freelancing

and I'm gonna offer you guys my tips for freelancing as a graphic designer online

that's quite funny because decades ago in graphic design

well commonly took place was a graphic design they would go into a design

agency or part of a design team and that's what they would make their career

when they get towards the end of their career that is when they we go into

freelancing this was what commonly took place nowadays however people get to

university or college and when they finish their design courses they

immediately go straight into freelancing so things have kind of turned

upside-down in the design industry as a play but here are my 10 tips for you

guys in relation to freelancing as a graphic designer

now the first one is quite a big one and it's something I see everywhere online

and it's do not undersell yourself as a graphic designer to clients on the

Internet is a huge spectrum of different prices and values for design work this

ranges from a leg of a sign for five dollars all the way up to hundreds and

thousands of dollars for a branding project you need to take a good look at

yourself and your design work and don't buckle down under pressure to sell your

work for cheap prices this is going to devalue yourself and your time with a

designer and it's not going to be worth your while working hard on a design for

such low prices where they could actually be making more money during a

normal 9 to 5 job in retail for example so never under say your self as a

graphic designer if a client doesn't want to give you the

money that you need or you want for a design project simply move on that's

their loss and there's plenty more fish in the sea as they say and at the good

tip in relation to working with clients as a graphic designer

is how you talk to them you need to familiarize yourself with design

terminology and use keywords all professional designers use now this is

gonna make you seem like you know we're talking about and hopefully you do

know what you're talking about so whenever you talk about project or

design use words that designers commonly used so things like bleed vector strokes

you know all these technical terms that every single designer should know about

this is only gonna make yourself look more horrible and more professional when

you're talking to clients another good good point when it comes to dealing with

customers or clients is your customer service you should always sell yourself

in your work but you should always do in a tangible manner and you should always

be polite and considerate that's not to say that you should be in doormat and

you should be walked all over on a trodden on if a client or a customer is

happy with your work they're gonna be inclined to tell other people about your

services that's only gonna beast your portfolio work and the work that you

actually are hired to do on the other hand if you're a cold harsh person who

comes across the person and nobody wants to associate with people will then tell

others about you and how you actually present yourself this is only going to

go against your favor of being a professional successful freelancer in

graphic design this is someone that many designers overlook and it is pen and

pencil before you start any design projects in Illustrator or Photoshop

whatever it's always good idea to sketch down your ideas first this is because

you want to get these ideas from your mind onto a physical form quickly and

easily and you can develop ideas in a very skill for an easy manner on paper

before you take them to a digital realm

another big big point here when you're freelancing as a graphic designer is to

remember you target market is submit you're designing something for I don't

know teenagers for like a pop culture magazine you're not gonna make the

design really for more contemporary as you would for maybe an upper-class small

older audience you really do need to keep in mind who your target market is

because as designers we create physical communication for people to observe and

to soak in it needs to be relevant to those people and the target market is

gonna reach

this is something I've been using a lot in the last two years of my graphic

design work and also my life in general and some of you guys might know about

the Mikey slogan just do it he was actually turned into a mean by shell

above but I've been using it in my projects and also in my life just do it

don't procrastinate just get up and just do it once you start doing things and

you start getting to a rhythm it's easy it's just the initial push to

go and do something that is often the hard part I know procrastination is a

problem for many people but if you simply just start doing it you will

start enjoying yourself after doing it you know as a designer I do love

designing things and creating cool designs but there are these days where

you didn't feel like doing anything and if you do have a deadline that you must

meet use this slogan just do it on the other side of things you really do want

to save yourself time to relax and do things that you want to do in your life

your entire life and being you shouldn't be your projects new graphic design work

you should do things that you really enjoy away from the computer screen so

you didn't get burned out and you didn't fry your brain so it's important to

manage your time between relaxation and downtime as well as your work projects

now the previous two points lead onto my next point

and that's to make a plan of action I find that if you plan out your day or

your days or weeks ahead things run a lot more smoothly so maybe in the

morning you have to design the logo and then you have to then you have to work

on a business card for example just plan out your plan of action so you know

mentally what you need to be doing and when I'm the kind of person who does

these structures so this one really does help me as a graphic designer of course

you might stray away from the plan but when you do actually have a plan you

might find that you get things done a lot easier and a lot more smoothly as

social media is a big one as a freelance graphic designer you cannot rely on one

website to gain all the traffic and the clients that you need

we each have a big presence in social media so that involves having an

Instagram account having Twitter having a Behance profile all of these things

are gonna help you get more clients as a freelance graphic designer and you

shouldn't just post your work you should always engage in groups and also

hashtags that are relevant to graphic design of freelancers when you have a

bigger presence on social media and you have more notoriety you can have more

customers or potential clients coming to you because your name is actually out

there as a graphic designer so get social network and pupil now the

last tip in today's video on 10 tips for you guys in freelance graphic design is

something I've said a lot on this channel and that is your portfolio of

work now you don't have to have a portfolio website but I do actually

suggest that you get one because you have full control over portfolio website

as a paste of social media account if you have portfolio of work you can

direct potential customers on freelance websites to your portfolio website now

this is gonna really really help you because it shows you're more

professional and it shows that you have a vast experience of work as a graphic

designer the more experienced you are the more

likely someone's gonna hire you a freelance graphic designer

so there are my 10 tips for you guys on freelancing as a graphic designer

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34 degrees Celsius and humidity is up to 80% so I'm kind of sweltering making

this video for you guys today but anyway I'll be back tomorrow

and until then does on your future today peace

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