The 2009 Creative Freelancer Conference is now over. This year's program included many additional networking and informational events; keep reading for complete details.
Meet the Sponsors
WED, August 26 | 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
The companies supporting the Creative Freelancer Conference will be on hand during conference registration to share information about tools and resources that can make your life easier.
SHINE Sneak Preview
WED, August 26 | 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Join us for a sneak peak at a “big film about small business” produced by Biznik.com. Our sneak preview will include never-before-seen excerpts and out-takes from the film, plus feature freelancers we know (and love)!
Opening Happy Hour
WED, August 26 | 5:45 PM – 7:00 PM
You, the speakers and a few hundred creative solopreneurs talking shop, exchanging business cards, venting about clients, making plans for dinner and most importantly, enjoying the life of a creative freelancer.
Breakfast Roundtables
THURS, August 27 | 8:00 AM – 8:50 AM
FRI, August 28 | 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Here’s your chance to find out how other freelancers do things like estimating, cold calling, producing blogs, e-newsletters and tweeting, identifying good prospects—or just juggling all of the above.
You'll find the complete list of topics below. Want to discuss something else? Grab an empty table and some like-minded attendees and start your own roundtable.
Thursday:
Pricing for Profit, Peleg Top
Publishing in National Media Outlets, Michelle Goodman
The Other 80%: A couple of things you should know before you quit your day job, Theory Associates
Taxes—Not for Dummies—for Intelligent, Talented Freelancers, June Walker
Self Confidence or a Thriving Business: Which Comes First? Ilise Benun
How to Generate PR for your Creative Business, Bryn Mooth
Pitch Perfect, Dyana Valentine
Friday:
Creating a Social Media Marketing Plan, Colleen Wainwright
Pricing for Profit, Peleg Top
When to Work for Free, Michelle Goodman
Self Confidence or a Thriving Business: Which Comes First? Ilise Benun
Taxes—Not for Dummies—for Intelligent, Talented Freelancers, June Walker
Pitch Perfect, Dyana Valentine
NEW! Lunch & Learn: Talk Shop with Peleg Top
THURS, August 27 | 12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Wouldn’t it be nice to sit down and have lunch with Peleg Top, ask him anything you want about your business and get some first hand advice you can use in your business immediately?
Well here is your chance to do just that. Peleg Top, co-producer of the Conference and one of the speakers, is hosting a business development luncheon on Thursday.
Come prepared with specific questions you want to ask about your business. In this exclusive setting, you'll have a chance to ask Peleg any question and hear what other freelancers have to say on the topic.
Registration is FREE
Buy your own meal.
Space is limited to 10.
To sign up, click here.
Speaker Book Signings
THURS, August 27 | 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Some of our speakers have published their own work and now is your opportunity to get it firsthand. Plus, the authors will be on hand to personally sign each copy.
POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
Hands-On Marketing Lab with Ilise Benun
FRI, August 28 | 2:00 PM – 3:45 PM
By the end of the Creative Freelancer Conference, you’ll be itching to put everything you’ve learned into practice. To get started, head on over to the Marketing Lab, hosted by Marketing Mentor’s Ilise Benun. You’ll work closely with your colleagues, helping each other choose a target market and the best (and most cost-effective) tools to pursue that market.
You’ll learn how to break a marketing plan down into small, actionable steps, how to assess the viability of a target market, how to prevent feast or famine and how to keep your momentum going the whole time. Best of all, you’ll leave with a finished marketing plan that will be ready to implement the minute you get back to your office.
The Price is Right Presented by Lee Silber and Peleg Top
FRI, August 28 | 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
The biggest problem in pricing creative work is not knowing on what to base your price. But creative business experts Lee Silber and Peleg Top have a foolproof formula to help you price your work properly—for greater profitability—as well as a strategy for raising your rates.
Lee and Peleg will cover everything from understanding how to use your hourly rate to learning how to come up with a project budget. Whether you’re pricing copy, video, design, illustration or any other creative occupation, you’ll leave with the tools you need to estimate a project in 30 minutes or less, properly charge for a project and create win/win pricing practices.
FREE Post-Conference Webcast
September 16
5:00 pm Eastern/2:00 PM Pacific
All CFC attendees are invited to participate in a special post-Conference webcast designed to help you implement all the great techniques and processes you learned in San Diego.
This webcast is the perfect antidote to business as usual, and will help you maintain your Conference momentum by reinforcing the highlights of what you learned at CFC and identifying next steps for growing your business.
The webcast will be hosted by Ilise Benun and Peleg Top and is free to all CFC attendees.You can’t afford to miss it—especially since it’s part of the deal!
(Don’t worry. If you do happen to miss the live webcast, it will be archived so you can access it whenever you want.)
