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I?ve been a freelance graphic designer for about 2 years. Many people wonder how I can survive, because they know that I don?t have big clients.

Most graphic designers, especially beginners care too much about having big clients, big job with big bucks. Well, there?s nothing wrong with that. But sometimes they forget about their capabilities, considering freelancer has to do all work that ideally have to be done by more than one person. The result is that they can?t focus and concentrate on creativity process which is their main job. Therefore they can?t fulfill their clients? requirements.

Guess what?!

The clients wouldn?t satisfy, and?? they never comeback!

So, what?s the big deal about having big clients, big job with big bucks if you?re only getting once for awhile? In fact, you?re only getting bad reputation by that.

Personally, I don?t really care about the big clients and big jobs. Big bucks?! Yes! I do care. But big bucks don?t always come from big clients. How can I get it, then?!

Continuity. That?s the answer.

Having small jobs from small clients constantly and continuously is more important than having big jobs from big clients once for awhile for freelancers.

During my career as freelance graphic designer, I focus on small to mid-size businesses as my target market. It?s been more than enough for me. They keep coming back regularly because they get their satisfaction from the first job I given. In fact, I got free marketing by their recommendation from one client to another.

Getting new client is not easy, but (trusts me)? to make them keep coming back is even harder. Therefore, treat them professionally and yet personally. Call them once for a while just to say ?Hi? and find out how they?ve been doing if you haven?t heard from them for awhile. Create an ?open-communication? in order to make both sides comfortable, that way it will be easier to understand what clients need when you get projects.

Treat your clients equally instead of take a side on the bigger one, because no matter how big (or small) your client (or the project) is, they all have the same right: getting what they paid for, right on schedule.

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Free is affordable and many people have turned to play online games on free flash portal websites. While the stocks started to crash in October 2008, casual games industry was doing more benefits. Most of the online advertising services have seen their incomes slide dramatically but not the online gaming sites. The online gaming flash portals saw display advertising views spike to more than 29% according to Comscore who did the report earlier in 2009.

The term casual games apply for break-time online games to play or mini games downloadable from flash portal games. With Americans tightening their belt, this industry is reaching everyone as opposed to video game consoles. Casual games companies have more ways to make revenues, such as billing players for downloads or tournament plays or licensing their games to third parties or offering premium accounts in which you have to pay a small amount. It?s far away better and cheaper for gamers than go to the restaurant or watch a movie. People may be seeing it as an alternative to other more expensive forms of entertainment. This business model fits perfectly with the economic context. Another point that could turn to the advantage of such companies is that people who are out of work have more spare times to play online games. But what makes browser based games so popular? The price, the quality, the mobility, the accessibility and the variety are strong factors in which people can play online games freely.

People tends to think that browser based games have poor graphics and content but this is not the case at all. Despite the fact that directx and 3d accelerator engines are not supported, the flash technology offers an alternative to display excellent graphics. Javascript Frameworks like Yui, Dojo or JQuery allow the developers to gain more control over graphic components such as Ajax and drag ?n drop. Especially, the majority of North America and European traffic has at least a 1 MB DSL connection which is so far enough to play online games. All these factors allow web browser games to compete largely with the desktop games.

Casual games to play online have many benefits unlike desktop games. People use to see ads on websites and they also tend to spend more times online playing free games. Why? Because sites have many more services to offer such as chat, forums and fast support by the community that lives by itself. Finally, more times consumed on sites also mean more revenue.

New technologies like mobile gaming are positioned to overtake PCs and video console gaming. The price is really sensitive especially in the economic context and casual games will probably grow faster than any other gaming market. Definitively, people of all ages will continue to play online games and this is the main reason why the free casual games industry is here to stay amongst the big brothers.

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