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Freelance 101 – Email Marketing

 

Recently we’ve been searching out software solutions, tips and research material for successful email campaigns and email marketing.

While doing this, we found some good sites to go to for designing tips, variances across email clients, good testing and test plans etc – and I thought I would share them with you here.

Now this isn’t the be all and end all, but it’s just some of the highlights we wanted to share.

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Freelance 101 – Part 4 Time Tracking

 

Time. It’s one of the things in life we never seem to have quite enough of but yet it’s one of the most important things we need to manage in order to make our lives a little easier.

This time in Freelance 101, we’re going to take a look at some useful tools needed to track your time on your projects to make the most of your day, and your invoicing.

To use your time tracking effectively – it should really be used in conjunction with your accounting software and a lot of the accounting software out there has that built in for your benefit.  For accounting software, please read our Freelance 101 – Accounting article.

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Freelance 101 – Part 3 Online Job Boards

 

So far we’ve discussed accounting software (the none glamorous side of the business) & online portfolio’s (the shiny eye candy side of things), and before going on to discuss things like time tracking or project managing, we need to get on to the topic of where do we go to find the jobs and gigs?

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