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Are you a freelancer? What is your expertise? Where do you work out of?

I'm looking to connect freelancers so that they can more easily refer work to each other, collaborate and ultimately make more money. Just wanted to hear your entrepreneurial story

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Permalink Reply by Noelle Stary on September 8, 2010 at 6:40pm

Lighting lectures.... we should def talk about that. Okay, so I'll seeyou next week.

~ Noelle

Keith said:

Works for me, though I don't think I'll have business cards ready by then - still waiting on logo design hahahaha. Yes, I'm in the early development stages of the launch.

Here's an idea - ever do lightning lectures? We do them sometimes at the hackerspace I help started.

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Permalink Reply by Drew on September 8, 2010 at 10:46pm

Lighting lectures.... sounds very interesting, Quick with key points. I'm up for this open house.

Kieth if you need help with business cards let me know, I do mine 8-12up on 8.5x11 and either print out on my home printer or use Kinko's/Staples for small runs of 25-50 (the trick is doing your own print setup), keeps costs low.

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Permalink Reply by Keith on September 9, 2010 at 8:27am

Meh I can't see saving much more money than using something like Vistaprint - its so gosh darned cheap these days.

The real reason I don't have business cards is because I'm still lining up graphic designers for the logo design while I try and line up a contractor for the website design/programming.

Drew said:

Lighting lectures.... sounds very interesting, Quick with key points. I'm up for this open house.

Kieth if you need help with business cards let me know, I do mine 8-12up on 8.5x11 and either print out on my home printer or use Kinko's/Staples for small runs of 25-50 (the trick is doing your own print setup), keeps costs low.

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Permalink Reply by Drew on September 9, 2010 at 11:36am

Sites like VistaPrint and 4over4 are good in the sense that their cheap. But having something tomorrow or better yet, in a few hours, is priceless. Also, you get to see how your design looks printed/cut before printing large volumes like 100-500 and going back to the website with costly revisions and type edits/re-runs.

LOL, Plus you support the local economy! Most of these discount web-print shops gang up jobs and have them run/produced Abroad (ex:China) and then ship them back for delivery.

Keith said:

Meh I can't see saving much more money than using something like Vistaprint - its so gosh darned cheap these days.
The real reason I don't have business cards is because I'm still lining up graphic designers for the logo design while I try and line up a contractor for the website design/programming. Drew said:
Lighting lectures.... sounds very interesting, Quick with key points. I'm up for this open house.

Kieth if you need help with business cards let me know, I do mine 8-12up on 8.5x11 and either print out on my home printer or use Kinko's/Staples for small runs of 25-50 (the trick is doing your own print setup), keeps costs low.