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The jump to freelanceJohan Ronsse - Bizcamp Belgium - 11 december 2010
Tuesday 14 December 2010
The jump to freelance / version 2010-12-10
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Hi, I’m Johan!
Tuesday 14 December 2010
Webdesigner, 4 years
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About
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Webdesigner for 4 years
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Webdesigner, 4 years
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Tuesday 14 December 2010
Projects over time: small, big, bigger
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Tuesday 14 December 2010
[Slide: big: AB Concerts]
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Tuesday 14 December 2010
[Slide: bigger: Gazet van Antwerpen]
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Started working 4 days a week one year ago, set up company
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Wolf’s Little Store
Tuesday 14 December 2010
Wolf’s Little Store
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Easy:
The easy part
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Easy: ondernemingsloket
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The hard part
Hard: find a good accountantTuesday 14 December 2010
Hard: find a good accountant
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Now: preparing for fulltime business
Tuesday 14 December 2010
Now preparing for fulltime freelancing
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Why freelance?
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Why freelance?
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Choose the projects you want to do
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Choose the projects you want to do
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What would you work on if you had the choice?
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What would you work on if you had the choice?
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iOS user interface
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iPhone user interface (slide: iPhone UI)
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Game design
http://glitch.com
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Game design (slide: Glitch)
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In a company:
Little influence on what you end up working on (whatever got through sales funnel)
Sometimes not satisfied w/ type of work
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In a company Little influence on what you end up working on (whatever got through sales funnel) Sometimes not satisfied w/ type of work
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Moral/ethical disagreement
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Don't agree with the business model (e.g. personal data gathering)Moral/ethical disagreement e.g. church websites, or websites for political partiesLargely depends on employer. Everything is debatable.
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€Company should be profitable...
Tuesday 14 December 2010
In the end a company has to be profitable.
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People tell me:
“Sometimes you have to do things you don’t really like!”
Tuesday 14 December 2010
People would say: sometimes you have to do things you dont like. I disagree. I only want to work for people I like and I only want to do projects I like.
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“You can only work for people you like.”
http://www.miltonglaser.com/pages/milton/essays/es3.html
Tuesday 14 December 2010
Milton Glaser said in his essay Ten Things I have learned: YOU CAN ONLY WORK FOR PEOPLE THAT YOU LIKE.
“Professionalism required that you didn’t particularly like the people that you worked for or at least maintained an arms length relationship to them, which meant that I never had lunch with a client or saw them socially. Then some years ago I realised that the opposite was true. I discovered that all the work I had done that was meaningful and significant came out of an affectionate relationship with a client. And I am not talking about professionalism; I am talking about affection.”
Very good essay: read it, for everyone, not only designers http://www.miltonglaser.com/pages/milton/essays/es3.html
I would rather live on €1250 a month than do work I don't like to do.
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Name your price.
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Name your price - Don't tell anyone you're making this because they have no idea what you end up with
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taxes
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General advice seems to be: set aside half of what you make because you'll have to give it back anywayIf you earned €1000 count it as 500, 500 is going to be taxed anyway.
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Work when you want to.
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Work when you want to I'm a night owl Hard time getting out of bed But I do have to keep a fixed schedule to get work done Just habits? I don't know
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Work when you want to....from where you want to
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Work from anywhere
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http://www.nomadz.nu
Interesting approach: Nomadz.nu
Tuesday 14 December 2010
Interesting: Nomadz"The travelling webdesigners"Webdesign allows for this: not much jobs doThen again, I still have a family, friends and a girlfriend
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Why not freelance?
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Why not freelance?
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Not onlythe designer
Tuesday 14 December 2010
Not only the designer, also other roles:
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Sales & marketing(probably the most important!)
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Have to generate leads Built up reputation with blogging (500+ subscribers to Wolf's Little Store and 500+ subscribers to Catalog) Speak at camps: spoke at Barcamp, Arrrcamp, guest lecture at Kaho Gent Pet projects for fun (2008 and 2009 in review) Tweet your mind (800 followers, then killed account, now 250) Not about the number, but relevancy No real portfolio yet, all leads come from reputation and network
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Traditionally by advertising
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I like self advertisement: blog
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Twitter honestly
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Continuity: build your portfolio
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Thomas (@bytte) says: build a portfolio for continuity
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Project managerAccountant
Office assistantWeb developer
System administrator
Other roles:
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General manager/Project manager Have to plan your own projects You have to do that anyway in a company situation, discussing the planning: now you decide Invest money into the company or give yourself a higher wage/more goodies? Tough call, I don't know yet. Safest I guess: invest back into the company the first year. Get some savings.Accountant/administrative assistant You can have an accountant but he won't make your invoices He also won't set your pricingOffice assistant Someone has to get the coffee and do groceries
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Outsource!?
Tuesday 14 December 2010
Maybe it’s better to outsource these tasks.
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Investment: good coffee machine?
Tuesday 14 December 2010
My first investment: premium coffee machine?
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9 to 5? Not really!
Tuesday 14 December 2010
No 9 to 5 If you fuck up, it's entirely your responsibility Schedule can quickly become chaos
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Uncertainty
Tuesday 14 December 2010
Uncertainty Don't know when projects land Sometimes will be very busy, very quit Guess it's best to have a backup plan
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Thanks for your attention!
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