And here… we… go!
We are a forgotten breed of freelancers; the student-entrepreneur types. It’s hard to find quality information about freelancing and the challenges we face as students that want to rock at freelancing. We as student freelancers have different stresses, demands, and requirements that need different freelancing advice, tips and tricks than the rest of the freelance population.
These are the reasons why we at Students that Freelance made it our mission to be the only online community for students that want to rock at freelancing. We are student freelancers and want to make noise in the freelance world!
We are here to offer a jump-off point for those students thinking about starting a career in freelancing, those that have just begun their freelance careers, and those that have been doing this freelance thing for a while who want to become even better! We hope to be the place to fill the void of business knowledge that is absent in most art and design school curriculums.
We have done a lot of research, hard work, thinking, planning, and have developed many ways in which we will not only help give excellent advice and educate student freelancers like us, but also serve as inspiration to those students who don’t think they can make their own careers.
Anxious to hear more? Well here is what we have in store for our readers…
- Great, genuine, student-freelance targeted content! You can’t have a blog without content. One of the reasons we decided to start this site is because of the lack of articles and information online to help the student freelancer develop their careers. We will provide several times a week great articles to help you grow as a student freelancer. Not only will we tackle those issues that are common among student freelancers, but we will offer up some tips and pointers to help you with marketing and managing your business, from the student freelancers that do it best!
- Forums! Yes, one of our main focuses here is to allow for collaboration of all kinds of student freelancers from all over the world. The student freelance population is growing rapidly, so we hope to become the central area in which the ever-growing student freelance population can come and collaborate, share tips and tricks, and get advice on just about anything! With that said, we are currently working on getting the forums up and running for our members. Stay tuned for more details! For now you can use the discussion feature of our Facebook page to meet and discuss freelancing with members all over the world!
- Student freelancer interviews! Who wouldn’t love some free publicity? We will interview one student freelancer every week and feature them and their portfolio on our site every weekend! Want to be one of those student freelancers that get interviewed? Email us at hello@studentsthatfreelance.com with the subject “I want to be interviewed!” and give us a couple of good reasons why we should interview you!
In the wise words of the Joker, “And here we go!” We are off to the races and we will leave no student freelancer behind. It’s time for the student freelancer to stand loud and proud and take charge of their own futures as prosperous and successful freelancers!
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Lots of interesting points Amber. I’m glad the site is up
I am glad you are excited to see it up! Can’t wait till Wednesday when the first post gets put up!
My favorite part of the site is the “dirtyLittleTrick”
@Nick, He he he. Someone has been looking at my code! Don’t look too deep now! Plus, you and your threaded comments have pointed out a few things I needed to work on!
Indeed. I pointed it out on FreelanceSwitch. Can’t wait for the forums, when do you estimate they will be up?
I am not sure about the forums. I started with Vanilla, and tried to theme it to match the rest of the site, and that was a horrible fail. So I will either have to spend more time on it, or switch to BBPress. I could go ahead and launch the forums, but they wouldn’t look nothing like the rest of the site, which is the reason they aren’t public yet.
I just discovered this site a day or two ago, but I’m excited it’s up as well. Hopefully the information here will be invaluable to me!
I hope you guys like the articles and interviews I plan to post on here. The first one I am sure will strike home to alot of student freelancers! I am always interested in hearing what you guys want to read about, so feel free to tell me here!
Wow! Looks like I’m ganna enjoy it here! XD
Good luck, Amber!
Well I hope this will be a great place to hang out!
Glad to see the site up guys well done, would love to get involved if possible. I wanted to get a site up like this over a year ago and even spoke about it on Freelanceswitch forums where I got people interested and emailing me about joining in not only a site but PODCAST too. Sadly things came up which stopped me going ahead at the time but glad someone is around to do this blog.
Love the design and the font especially.
Keeping an eye on the site now and looking forward to contributing as much as possible.
I am glad everyone is wanting to get involved somehow! This is awesome! I wish at this stage I could hire writers, but I can’t right now. I plan to seek sponsorship through ads and such soon, so that should help build a fund to hire student freelancers to help write some articles from time to time and hire others to help build new sections of the site.
I am really glad you like the design! This was the second design I did and I felt like it was the best one for the subject matter. I have gotten mixed reviews about this custom @font-face that looks handwritten, but I think it adds something unique!
Subscribe to the feed to catch tomorrow’s article!
I am looking forward to more from this site, don’t disappoint me
Oh the pressure is on now!
I hope I don’t disappoint you!
Hi Amber,
I love this handwritten font for the forms, its simply awsome, adds a bit of class.
Your site has a good cause and the fact that I am moonlighting means that this will be a helpful little place for me !
I’m glad to hear you like the handwritten font! I like it too!
I hope this becomes a helpful place for you and your moonlighting!
Nice website! Congrats on the launch!
Thanks!!