Artisan Blog

Being a freelancer brings many benefits especially the opportunity to control your work/life balance. Success breeds success and eventually you may find yourself unable to take on any more clients without either the work or the life suffering. Here are some tips on saying no to new work without burning a bridge with a potential client: Read more

Creatives are inundated with ideas. They come to you while you’re sleeping, while you’re cooking, while you’re reading or working or running. While brainstorming or in solitude. Sometimes at such awkward moments you can’t write them down before they float away. 

How many of those ideas come to fruition? Probably not many. Some because they weren’t great ideas to begin with but most because we are wary of committing the time it takes to find out. Read more

At this time of year, we are all making mental lists of what we are thankful for and the team at Artisan Creative is, too. Here are some of the things we are thankful for in 2012: Read more

If you are considering making the leap into freelancing from full time work, we thought you might like to know how freelancers feel about making that decision: Read more

Utilizing your network of friends and associates to assist in your job search, is nothing new. The relationships you have built in these areas are extremely valuable, offering a number of new contacts and warm referrals just a degree away.

However, whenever you are networking for new opportunities, there is some etiquette to keep in mind to ensure your relationships last: Read more

We hope that you re-read your resume every time you send it out, especially since you should be tweaking and updating it often. But any time you make changes, you can also make mistakes.  Read more

There comes a time in every job interview…the awkward silence. No one is talking.   

It’s okay. Let it happen. Read more

If you work at a traditional job, this might not be your natural reaction when someone gives you a new project, but if you are a freelancer or an entrepreneur—or think like one—a day when you get more work is a day for smiling. Read more