Freelance: Keys and Tools to Find Success as Your Own Boss
The first contact
A course by Martina Flor , Lettering Artist
About the video: The first contact
Overview
“An order arrived! We will see how to interpret a brief and how to respond to that first email by accepting or rejecting the assignment.”
In this video lesson Martina Flor addresses the topic: The first contact, which is part of the Domestika online course: Freelance: Keys and Tools to Find Success as Your Own Boss. Learn to manage your personal brand and build your own career.
Partial transcription of the video
“First contact with the client Hello again. In this lesson, we will see what a professional process of working with a client would be like since the order arrives. Suppose I receive an email from a customer or from a potential client. He says: "Hi, Martina. My name is Raquel, I love your work and you would be perfect for the project I have. This is a cover for Laura Amy Schlitz's new book, a softcover edition for teenagers over 12 years old. We would like to see some ideas next week and have the final art towards the end of July. Attached, you find the "brief". Please ask me any questions yo...”
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Course summary for: Freelance: Keys and Tools to Find Success as Your Own Boss
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Business, Creative Consulting, Design, Design Management, Marketing

Martina Flor
A course by Martina Flor
Buenos Aires-born Martina Flor has been based in Berlin for several years, where she runs a custom lettering and typography studio working internationally for clients such as The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, Harper Collins, Fontshop, Monotype, and Etsy, among others.
Martina is cofounder of the popular online battle "Lettering vs Calligraphy" and founder of "Letter Collections." When she's not drawing letters, she travels to present her work at conferences and universities. She is the author of the book The Golden Secrets of Lettering, originally published in German and later translated into English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Japanese.
She also teaches the Domestika lettering courses The Golden Secrets of Lettering and Lettering for Perfectionists, as well as Freelance: Keys and Tools to Find Success as Your Own Boss , in which she reveals the secrets to the self-employed essentials.
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