Freelancing Archives - Clientrol

June 7, 2018 by Marc

Creating A Successful Ad To Capture Your Audience Attention

Many digital marketers search for the winning formula for creating a successful ad campaign. Unfortunately, many of them are not successful. Nevertheless, this does not mean that a winning formula doesn’t exist. As a matter of fact, these so called “digital nomads” create failing ad campaigns because they copy other unsuccessful marketing campaigns and put

June 6, 2018 by Marc

Building Client Trust

Client Retainer Software – Building Client Trust For many of you today operating in e-commerce or any other online business with a large client base, you may find it hard to retain customer value. Reoccurring customers are an essential element to any business model for producing positive cash flow. However, as your client base grows

May 31, 2018 by Marc

Working Freelance with a New Baby

Hi everyone, first up – apologies for the lack of blog posts, I become a father recently and between working on Clientrol 24/24/7, it’s taken until now for me to get some free time to start blogging again, so what better topic to start off with than Working Freelance with a New Baby! So what

February 13, 2018 by Marc

The Ultimate GDPR Guide including Templates & Resources

  GDPR is the much bigger and badder brother to the EU Cookie Policy that was introduced a few years ago and that no one paid any real attention to. It’s only 3-months before GDPR gets real and if you haven’t heard about it yet, check out this link. The problem is that many small

February 13, 2018 by Marc

Top 10 Useful Legal Contracts

Top The most important part of a freelancer & client relationship is having contracts in places for the services you are providing and your client is expecting. Feel free to use these resources and edit to your requirements, don’t just copy & paste – be sure to check the legal language used as laws in

November 27, 2017 by Marc

Dude, Where’s my Clients?

We know freelancing can be a feast or famine but what happens when your existing or current portfolio of clients starts to disappear? It can be hard getting new clients but should you be burning your existing ones? Could they be cost cutting or simply looking for a change? Freelancing is all about you – your

November 10, 2017 by Marc

How to get your Clients to use a Retainer

Our turn to tackle this old pickle! – many freelancers have challenged this question over time. What may seem an impossible dream for freelancers starting out – getting your clients onto a retainer is actually not that hard to achieve. Not every client will want or need a retainer and you don’t want to waste

November 9, 2017 by Editor

5 Really Ancient Website Design Tools

  WYSIWYGREY! These days we can build beautiful websites using the latest software tools, WordPress themes, super fast broadband, powerful computers and all these cool programming languages. There were no fancy responsive screens in the 1990s to worry about, it was one design to fit every.single.monitor and when a designer created your new website, you should shut up

October 31, 2017 by Marc

8 Soulful Free Stock Photo Websites for Freelancers

  We all seek originality in our work and the same for using stock photos on any creative project – problem is that the stock photos can seem limited, soulless, acted out with big white teeth and perfectly staged environments! Luckily, there has been a steady increase in the number of Free Stock Photo websites

October 29, 2017 by aloudmin

Freelance Fixed Price vs Per Hour?

  Long debated by a Freelancer approaching a project – especially with a first time client, do you offer them a fixed price or rate per hour? You want to seal the deal with as little fuss, maybe you are worried the client will go elsewhere if you make things too complicated or piss them