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		<title>He Who Hunteth, Gathereth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember that class? I think it was History 101 or something like that. Those &#8220;Hunter/Gatherers&#8221; who wore animal hides and hunted for food (bears, mammoths, sloths, rats, ants, unwary slime) and/or gathered enough organic food (nuts, berries, mushrooms, saltines, ants, unwary slime) to propel themselves into the next day, full of protein and ready to take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>100 Perks of the Freelance Life #51-60</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, there I was, sitting in one of my favorite coffee shop/grocery stores, eating my date rolls and bananas, listening to The Jesus Lizard and drinking coffee. I thought to myself &#8220;Self, it&#8217;s a pretty typical Wednesday.&#8221; The location may change, but the modus operandi is pretty consistent. A few phone calls, some doodling, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Audacity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the &#8220;Old Man&#8221; speaking here. I&#8217;m the senior graphic designer with 40 years in the ad business so, put down the sandwich and listen up. In my day (before total freelance beckoned late in life) I used to hire folks like you! I&#8217;m that smiling, not-too-bad-a-guy who looked at your portfolio and kept looking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>100 Perks of the Freelance Life #61-70</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I&#8217;ve seen an awful lot of these &#8220;What My Mom Thinks I Do, What Society Thinks I do, What I Really Do.&#8221; The majority of them are a bunch of unfunny, horribly obvious puns. Some make me giggle, most just make me roll my eyes. The truth is that everyone thinks they&#8217;re a rock [...]]]></description>
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		<title>100 Perks of the Freelance Life #71-80</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Day three &#8211; and if you&#8217;re still with me, I applaud you. I&#8217;m not real sure I&#8217;m with me these days. I&#8217;ve been absolutely covered in work (yippee!!) and blogging has been a bit of an afterthought. I really do enjoy it, and the written word fascinates me to no end. There&#8217;s a power to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do You Do What You Do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Bye, bye daddy,&#8221; followed by blowing a kiss. Painting toes on 6 year old ballerinas. Listening to bad jokes and reading comics by a 9 year old professional detective. Fistfuls of Sour Patch kids and political discussions while playing Gears of War 3 with the most brilliant teen I&#8217;ve met. Hot coffee with a hotter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hide Your Email from the Spamming Bastards&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re like me, you get about 8 quadrillion spam emails a day. Unfortunately, when you design and develop websites for a living, you have to put your email address out there for those scraping, thieving robots that are out there, looking for your email address to add to databases that are sold to companies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bye bye, Elance&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well &#8211; I&#8217;ve finally cut ties with Elance. I got kind of tired of paying monthly for something that was an afterthought and really not bringing in any sincere income. It&#8217;s not that it isn&#8217;t a good service, and there is certainly a place for it &#8211; but at this point in my career, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week, I&#8217;m Not Going to Do Anything that Sucks</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/this-week-im-not-going-to-do-anything-that-sucks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutfreelance.com/?p=283</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a freelance graphic artist, and so many times, I find myself falling back into being freelance graphic production, or something else I don&#8217;t wanna be&#8230; Now &#8211; that certainly beats the pants off being a freelance ditch digger or a full-time burger flipper. But damn it &#8211; that&#8217;s not why I started this gig. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freelance Time Tracking &#8211; with iClockr (sorry, Windoze folks&#8230;)</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/freelance-time-tracking-with-iclockr-sorry-windoze-folks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Usually, I try to keep things platform independent (even though Macs are obviously superior in every way,) and if I mention software, I attempt to keep it neutral. But &#8211; I&#8217;ve found an app that is so handy and simple and FREE, I just had to share. I&#8217;ve always been one of those guys that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freelance Advice: The 4 Hour Work Day&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutfreelance.com/?p=252</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I sat down a while back and added up our bills, dreams and goals for our family &#8211; from a financial standpoint. We added up the figures, including EVERYTHING that goes out monthly &#8211; hosting expenses, gym fees, the kid&#8217;s classes, insurance, gasoline, coffee, shoes, etc &#8211; and came up with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crisis of Identity&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/crisis-of-identity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutfreelance.com/?p=249</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never been one to be totally truthful. I veil the majority of what I do in a little bit of secrecy. Smoke and mirrors, man behind the curtain &#8211; all that crap. Very few people know who I really am (I can count them all on one hand) and I prefer it that way. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Trails, Shug&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/happy-trails-shug/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My grandfather (Grandaddy) passed away last Tuesday. He was 90 years old and sharp as a tack up until the day he wandered off to go home. I admired him for a number of reasons &#8211; he was in a tank under Patton in World War 2, he was a strong man who raised a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freelance Inspiration Does Not Necessarily Mean Freelance Motivation&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/freelance-inspiration-does-not-necessarily-mean-freelance-motivation/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutfreelance.com/freelance-inspiration-does-not-necessarily-mean-freelance-motivation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got a problem. I am constantly inspired. I&#8217;m inspired from a great number of sources. Truth be told, my sources for inspiration are so diverse, and my pool of inspirations is so large, I could blog about nothing BUT inspiration and never run out of topics. Nature, my kids, movies, paintings, books, magazines, conversations, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media Fast &#8211; 14 Days without Media? Have I Lost My Mind?</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/media-fast-14-days-without-media-have-i-lost-my-mind/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutfreelance.com/media-fast-14-days-without-media-have-i-lost-my-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 14:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a father of 3, a husband of 1, master to one German Shepherd and servant to one cat. I run a business, tend a garden and I generally cook dinner 7 nights a week. I like to hike, I like to draw and I like to spend time drinking coffee on my deck, watching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Utility Dependence and Your Business</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/utility-dependence-and-your-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 19:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, Charter Communications comes through again&#8230; Just when I am humming along, having a nice life and getting a lot done, Charter decides that it&#8217;s in my best interest to hose my internet connection and make things &#8211; um &#8211; interesting. May 12, they told me. Just 8 days away! Sweet! I can take some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Mamma Ain&#8217;t Happy, Ain&#8217;t No-One Happy&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/when-mamma-aint-happy-aint-no-one-happy/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutfreelance.com/when-mamma-aint-happy-aint-no-one-happy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutfreelance.com/?p=209</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve gone on and on about why I&#8217;m a freelancer. The freedom, the creativity, the hunt, the kill, the good coffee, the ability to avoid razors for weeks on end, the shoes-optional office, etc. But &#8211; at the bottom of it all, I&#8217;m a freelancer because it&#8217;s the best way to serve my family, see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freelance Freakout&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/freelance-freakout/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a reasonably calm person. I would say that I&#8217;m laid back and mellow. Sometimes, probably a little too laid back. But &#8211; on occasion, I FREAK OUT. It&#8217;s not a terribly common occurrence, thankfully. But, when I do, it&#8217;s for a reason. Recently, I freaked out on a client who is using me as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freelance 101: Going Green</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/freelance-101-going-green/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutfreelance.com/freelance-101-going-green/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being stuck behind my monitors, I can often forget that there is a whole big, green, nice world out there. Leaves and grass and bugs and all that kind of stuff. I live in a beautiful part of the USA, and spring has sprung. And that started me thinking about going green. No &#8211; I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?*</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutfreelance.com/?p=170</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[And do graphic designers dream of pixels and paper and pens when they finally hit the sheets? If you answered yes (I did,) it might be time to back away from the unblinking electronic eye and pay a little bit of attention to your sleep. Sleep is important &#8211; and we all know that, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freelance Design Tips &#8211; Don&#8217;t Be Too Available&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/freelance-design-tips-dont-be-too-available/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutfreelance.com/freelance-design-tips-dont-be-too-available/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your clients expect you to be available &#8211; and you should be. You should answer the phone. You should answer emails. You should pick up on the occasional instant messenger buzz. But how available should you really be? What does availability do to your productivity? What does that availability do to your life in general? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Perfect Gift for Your Favorite Freelance Design Webmaster&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/the-perfect-gift-for-your-favorite-freelance-design-webmaster/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutfreelance.com/the-perfect-gift-for-your-favorite-freelance-design-webmaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(hint, hint) I colleague of mine (check her out here) clued me in to this the other day &#8211; custom engraved moleskin sketchbooks at engraveyourbook.com. I&#8217;ve mentioned before that I use sketchbooks and paper and pencil and pens extensively, and I think it&#8217;s a good idea for everyone out there. Wether it&#8217;s just for notes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Noise Canceling&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/noise-cancelling/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutfreelance.com/noise-cancelling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is so much noise these days. It&#8217;s everywhere. Visual and audio noise is pervasive, invasive and omnipresent. It&#8217;s hard to get a moment of real quiet. Ears and eyes are constantly bombarded. Having a quiet space to work is important for a few reasons. It makes it easier to concentrate: That ALWAYS makes it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Budget is a big concern&#8221; is not my concern&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/budget-is-a-big-concern-is-not-my-concern/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutfreelance.com/budget-is-a-big-concern-is-not-my-concern/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 14:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I garner a fair amount of work from online sources, and I&#8217;ve found that there are a couple of universal red flags when it comes to bidding on projects or quoting a job. I&#8217;ll go into some of the others later, but the big one is &#8220;Budget is a concern.&#8221; While I understand that money [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freelance Design, 101: Touch Every Project, Every Day</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/freelance-design-101-touch-every-project-every-day/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutfreelance.com/freelance-design-101-touch-every-project-every-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 13:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I think I&#8217;ve mentioned, I&#8217;m an old-school guy in a lot of ways. I like to draw, I like paper, I keep notes on pads and sketches in sketchbooks. I also keep a clipboard with a quad-ruled pad on it, with all my projects and sub-projects listed in no particular order. I have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burning Bridges</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/burning-bridges/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutfreelance.com/burning-bridges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been in business for a long, long time. Well &#8211; 10 years for myself and 20 as a professional. That&#8217;s long enough that I&#8217;ve had ups and downs. I&#8217;ve won some, I&#8217;ve lost some. Thankfully, I&#8217;ve won a lot more than I&#8217;ve lost. And in the losing, I&#8217;ve learned a couple of things &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fonts, Fonts, Fonts&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/fonts-fonts-fonts/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutfreelance.com/fonts-fonts-fonts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, on an old post, I got a question: &#8220;Might come off as a silly question, but I need answers. I was formerly employed by a large company as a designer. I have left the company to start my own freelance design business. I still continue to do design work for my former company. Do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Your Freelance Business with Criticism</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/growing-your-freelance-business-with-criticism/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutfreelance.com/growing-your-freelance-business-with-criticism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the worst parts of the job could really be one of the best tools you can have. Client criticism and comments. In the world of design, it&#8217;s really easy to become sort of insular and only see what YOU think is good design. Just because it&#8217;s something you dig, and something that other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Day&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/moving-day/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutfreelance.com/moving-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well &#8211; we&#8217;re moving the whole office, and I&#8217;ve come to realize a couple of things: 1. I have a lot of stuff. 2. I wish I had less stuff. So, to that end, I&#8217;ve gotten rid of a lot of things I don&#8217;t need in the office. Old papers, useless books and instruction manuals. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping Inspired, Unproductive and Growing</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/keeping-inspired-unproductive-and-growing/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutfreelance.com/keeping-inspired-unproductive-and-growing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are days when I&#8217;m incredibly productive. I can sit down and wipe out project after project. But &#8211; realistically, those days are reasonably few. There are more days when I piddle and play and wander &#8211; and those are the days when I need to keep my mind supple and re-charge my creative batteries. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Year That Was and The Year That Is To Be</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/the-year-that-was-and-the-year-that-is-to-be/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutfreelance.com/the-year-that-was-and-the-year-that-is-to-be/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been remiss with updating this blog &#8211; with some good reason. I&#8217;ve gone through a rough couple of months personally. My wife, my children and I have gone through the ups and downs of a miscarriage (my wife is blogging about it here) and I&#8217;ve been undertaking an overhaul of my business. It&#8217;s been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dark Side of the Freelance Moon</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/the-dark-side-of-the-freelance-moon/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutfreelance.com/the-dark-side-of-the-freelance-moon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There seems to be a lot of musical symbolism out there, so I thought I&#8217;d take a well-known album, Pink Floyd&#8217;s Dark Side of the Moon and apply bits of it to the freelance designer&#8217;s life&#8230; Today, we&#8217;ll deal with some aspects of &#8220;Time.&#8221; I&#8217;ve been scattered for a few weeks, and it&#8217;s been good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bare Feet, Shabby Clothes and Freelance Design</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/bare-feet-shabby-clothes-and-freelance-design/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutfreelance.com/bare-feet-shabby-clothes-and-freelance-design/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first started freelancing so many moons ago, I got a piece of advice that is really pretty good. It has nothing to do with finances or design. Nothing to do with software or time management or finding work. The advice? Get up, shower and get dressed like you&#8217;ve got meetings that day &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freelance Design Time Management</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/freelance-design-time-management/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutfreelance.com/freelance-design-time-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 01:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time management is crucial to the success of a freelance business. I&#8217;ll be posting some links and software solutions, but in the meantime &#8211; let&#8217;s talk nuts n&#8217; bolts of time management. I sit in front of the computer far too much, and being sort of old-school, the analog time management system (read: pieces of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Build an Effective Portfolio for a Freelance Designer</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/build-an-effective-portfolio-for-a-freelance-designer/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutfreelance.com/build-an-effective-portfolio-for-a-freelance-designer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Building an effective, hard-selling portfolio is a must for all designers, and there&#8217;s a science to building a portfolio. In many ways, your &#8220;book&#8221; needs to be very much that &#8211; a book of your experience and style. You want to build it in a way that makes sense, is attractive and is easy to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pleasing Your Freelance Clients is Not #1</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/pleasing-your-freelance-clients-is-not-1/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutfreelance.com/pleasing-your-freelance-clients-is-not-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first started as a freelance designer, I really thought that I should be able to please everyone. I would work extra, unbilled time on projects and put in far more hours than I should have. My number one aim was pleasing the client &#8211; and I&#8217;ve found out that I was wrong. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips for Free Freelance Designer Promotion</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/some-tips-for-freelance-designer-promotion-free/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutfreelance.com/some-tips-for-freelance-designer-promotion-free/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are so many ways to promote yourself as a freelance designer. Advertising, both online and in analog, is great &#8211; but it can get expensive. A simple newspaper ad can run you $1200. That&#8217;s a lot of logo work. Link exchanges, are &#8211; at best a crap shoot. You never really know how effective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips on Getting Started as a Freelance Designer</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/tips-on-getting-started-as-a-freelance-designer/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutfreelance.com/tips-on-getting-started-as-a-freelance-designer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had plenty of folks ask me what it takes to start a freelance design business &#8211; and I&#8217;ve seen all sorts of tips and pages and responses about that question. &#8220;Get 2 years of salary in the bank before you start.&#8221; Yeah. That&#8217;s easy to do, right? &#8220;Build your client base before you leave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Office Software</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/free-office-software/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutfreelance.com/free-office-software/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love to loathe Microsoft, so any way that I can stick it to &#8216;em, I take&#8230; But, at the same time, you&#8217;ve got to admit that they make rather ubiquitous software, and as a freelance designer, I have to keep copies of everything that clients and potential clients might use. Don&#8217;t ask me about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes, You Have to Laugh</title>
		<link>http://allaboutfreelance.com/sometimes-you-have-to-laugh/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutfreelance.com/sometimes-you-have-to-laugh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mister Freelance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve found that the freelance life requires me to laugh. A LOT. I think I&#8217;ll create a list (lists are a good way to keep track of things &#8211; there, that&#8217;ll serve as my info for today) to keep track of the things I should do when stresses set in. Cable Modem Dead: Read an [...]]]></description>
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