Calling All Creative Freelancers

By Ilise Benun

At Marketing-Mentor.com, we see too many creative freelancers working their butts off for small potatoes clients who don’t appreciate or value their work — being paid peanuts for it to boot! And all because you haven’t learned the basic business skills you need to get the projects you want, from the clients you want, at the price you want, just so you can live the life you want.

That’s why we pitched an idea for a business conference for freelancers to the folks over at HOW Magazine. Turns out, they had already been thinking along similar lines. So we put our resources together and, voila, the first ever Creative Freelancer Conference to be held August 27-29 in at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.

Not only will be focused and intimate (we’re expecting 300 people), best of all, it is priced to be affordable for freelancers! (Plus, if you register before July 15 you can save an additional $60!)

This event is perfect for you if you are a freelance anything: designer, photographer, writer, illustrator or a solo practitioner of anything, including interactive, interior and industrial design. In short, anyone who fits the bill of “creative solopreneur.”

We think this type of event has been missing for a long, long time and we are excited to be partnering with HOW, who has tons of experience putting on kick-ass conferences, to make it happen.

No other conference is devoted solely to the business aspects of creative-industry freelancing, from marketing and money matters to contracts and client retention. Plus, we promise a very meaty 2 days. No intellectual fluff. No abstract ideas to ponder. Just practical advice, proven techniques and here’s-how-you-do-it information that will move your business forward.

To learn more, I encourage you to visit CreativeFreelancerConference.com, where you’ll find a lineup of speakers and sessions, a growing list of articles and resources, the CFC blog about freelancing and the conference. (And check out the video where you can see fellow Sessions columnist, The Communicatrix, waxing poetic about her own challenges as a freelancer!)

We’re pretty excited about this and we hope to see you in Chicago in August! In the meantime, watch for upcoming posts on the speakers and their topics.

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