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Freelance Road Trip Podcast is by a freelance designer for freelance creatives, and talks about everything they didn't teach you in design school but should have if you want to build an accelerate a creative business. The podcast is a companion to the Freelance Road Trip program for creativepreneurs, and drops every week on Thursday, sometimes on Friday, and occasionally on Saturday.

Oct 25, 2019

The Copyright Alternative in Small-claims Enforcement Act — The CASE Act (HR 2426) — passed in the House on October 22, 2019, and moves on to the Senate (SB 1273). What does the legislation mean for freelancers, and why you should care. And I dive into the differences between pro bono and speculative work, how to...


Oct 18, 2019

In this week’s episode we’re answering two questions from freelance designers about doing favors and managing scope creep. How do you ask a friend to pay you when a simple favor morphs into a complicated project, and how can you make it work in your favor when clients add more work to a project already in...


Oct 10, 2019

In baseball, when the team manager calls in a relief pitcher, he’s hoping to save the game and walk away with a win. When a client calls you in because they’re not happy with their previous designer, you’re supposed fix everything that went wrong. In baseball, every game has a winner and a loser. But with...


Oct 4, 2019

To increase your rates and be able to charge more for your work, you need to bring more to the table than your talent and craft.

You can either give a client exactly what they ask for and call it done, or you can participate in the client’s vision and even build on it.

I share 5 principles you can implement starting...