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	January 8th, 2013 9 easy marketing ideas for freelancers Posted 1 day ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! Though many yearn for the freelancing lifestyle, it’s easy for the vital component that is marketing yourself to go unheeded in the rush to complete jobs and build your brand with a body of work, but as James Chartrand and company at Men with Pens points out, there are a few very simple steps you can take that only cost minutes but can yield a big payoff. Your Email Signature This marketing tactic is deceptively simple but definitely one that’s most commonly overlooked. I ignored it myself, initially. But once I set up a great email signature, guess what happened? I had a new client in less than a week. In your email settings, find the section where you can add an email signature and set one up. Include your name, your profession, your website, your phone number and the link to your preferred social media profiles. If your business has a tag line, include that too… Your About Page Most About pages make big assumptions that your readers know who you are and what you do. It’s easy to overlook what seems obvious to you. It’s rarely obvious to new visitors on your site. So edit your About page and add that you’re a freelancer for hire. Mention your specialty, how long you’ve been freelancing (if you’ve been doing it for more than two years), what kind of clients you work with, and why you’re qualified for the job. Don’t just assume that your reader knows you’re looking for clients – make it completely 100% obvious you’re available for hire. Full story at Men with Pens. Tips for freelancers. Photo credit: Fotolia Guaranteed groovy shots onboard the Photo Bus Posted 1 day ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! 2 It’s a beautiful thing when one person’s passions can be melded into a business idea as cool as John Deprisco of Deprisco Photo’s Photo Bus. While traditional photo booths can quickly get too crowded for the whole gang to get into the shot, this one not only comes to you (if you happen to be in the Kansas City area), but has plenty of room to squeeze everyone in and say “Cheese!”. According to the Photo Bus Facebook page: Our Photo booth is not your typical booth its more of a station. It’s roughly a 10×10 area where you and your friends from your event can come and take self-portraits. YOU take your our photos with a shutter cable, this allows you to express yourself however you want without having a photographer saying SMILE! No shots when the van’s a-rockin’, though, if you know what we mean. Full story at The Photo Bus @ Facebook via PetaPixel. Photography on wheels. Higgs finally gets its own remix [video] Posted 1 day ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! 1 If you were paying attention to science at all in 2012 (and even if you weren’t), the discovery of the Higgs boson was the pinnacle of excitement, but you haven’t made it in the world of the Internet until you have your own remix, so melodysheep graciously stepped forward to do the honors. Embedded media -- click here to see it. Full story at YouTube via Geeks are Sexy. Remixing the universe. 始動 Posted 1 day ago by Koichi Mitsui to s a s u r a u 3 愛宕町。 Yukon Gold Standard Posted 1 day ago by markbittman to bittman 1 There are the up-and-coming root vegetables with near-celebrity status — celeriac, parsnips, beets — and then there is the potato. Simultaneously beloved and despised, the potato is our most-grown and most-eaten vegetable and the one that is sometimes seen as a leading villain in the obesity pandemic. O.K., but chips and fries are not the only ways to eat potatoes. A good potato can be incredibly delicious sautéed in a little garlicky olive oil, simmered in stock, boiled and drizzled with the tiniest amount of butter and a sprinkle of mint or mashed with greens. No one is going to convince me that these preparations are going to make us fat. And those are just the start. In the something like 10,000 years since the potato was cultivated (it has been in the hands of Europeans and their descendants for only 500), there have been something like 10,000 different ways of cooking it. Here are a mere 12, but at least a few of them are bound to be new to you. All of these recipes are based on about two pounds of potatoes, roughly four medium to large spuds. Read the rest of this column and get the recipes here. Sent by Posterous. Change your email settings or unfollow. Other questions? We'd love to help.