How to Network Without Ever Attending A Networking Event
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Networking events. Mixers.
The 3 Traits You Need to Be a Successful Freelancer
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At the tender age of 22, one of my friend editors gave me the most important piece of freelance advice I've ever heard:
You are the product.
Because being successful as a freelancer or creative entrepreneur requires a lot of things: Hard work, a few very supportive friends, and probably at least one credit card that you're comfortable putting some serious spending on until the work starts to pick up.
Beg, Borrow, Steal: Why It's OK That Nothing You Make Is Original
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In school, you got in trouble for copying the work of others. As a college student, you may have worried that the RIAA would show up at your house if you pirated too much music from LimeWire.
9 Vintage Selfies That Prove Gen Y Didn't Invent the Self-Portrait
The ubiquity of cell phones may have made the self-portrait a point of mockery, but it's not exactly a new medium. Photographers and regular folks have been setting up cameras with timers or posing in front of mirrors since the birth of the camera.
9 Smart DIY Storage Solutions for Crafters
With the frequency that your scissors go missing, you'd think they'd become sentient and grown legs. And finding the right color of yarn (or thread, or paper, or ink) in fewer than 10 minutes?
Why Quitting Is Sometimes The Best Thing You Can Do
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CreativeLive CEO Chase Jarvis will quickly tell you: He's a great quitter. He's quit all kinds of things, from various sports to med school.
8 Must-Have Sanity-Saving Apps for Freelancers
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It's debatable whether or not the eight-hour workday works for everyone – or even anyone – mostly because it's darn near impossible to plop down in front of a computer and just hit the productivity switch. For freelancers, it can be even more challenging, as the distractions of a home office, the internet, or, you know, a life, begin to slowly eat away at the time when you should be working.
11 Vintage Photos of Old-Timey Musicians
This week, NPR reported on a study which found that the human brain, regardless of a person's perceived ability to keep a beat, can still keep time. The findings further underscored a long-running theory that music truly is a universal human language, as old as time and as thoroughly rooted in our brains as the need to breathe.