Your forms and pricing guides are fantastic. I find the industry to be quite guarded about what prices they are charging and this can be the greatest hurdle when starting a business or freelancing. Your guides almost guarantee that you are not going to undersell yourself or the industry. Thank you.
– Michelle
I became a member of Creative Public a couple of months ago. I do not really know how I stumbled onto the CreativePublic site, but I stayed and looked around because of the nice design. I found many things to help me as a freelance graphic design / illustrator. I printed off nearly all the forms for business and I use the pricing guide at least twice a week. I went to all the job links and signed up. CreativePublic has really helped me understand copyrights. They have helped me a lot with bookkeeping for my one-man business, it is through a link on their site I learned all about home-base business taxes. Creative Public has also helped me revise my resume; I once had an ugly word processed resume until Creative Public told me that was a no-no. I downloaded their resume example and applied my information to a similar design. I thank Creative Public for all their help; I do not know how I was doing things before when I had no freelancing help.
– Jeremy Pass
I am in the process of starting my own graphic design business with a partner. Recently we have been doing market surveys for prices and rate. Also we have been trying to compile and design all of the forms we needed. Somehow I stumbled upon your site, and thought I had entered heaven. The amount of information and resources that you provide is incredible. With extreme gratitude, I truly thank you. I am forever indebted to you.
– Jim Brown
I first thought that I could find good forms and contracts for free someplace else on the Internet. Well, I was wrong, I searched for days and realized I was just wasting time. I was in the process of hiring my first sales representative and I needed to get an offer letter quickly. After looking at the sample forms, I decided to join. To my surprise, there was everything I needed as a business owner - everything but the investment money. There were employee manuals, contracts, time sheets and even expense reports. Everything looked so professional and fit my needs.
– Lauren Melton
As a graphic designer / cartoonist, I really needed to find a contract that could protect my artwork as well as find copyright agreements. I have been looking around the Internet for a long time and finally on my last day of trying, I stumbled across CreativePublic. The first free sample I clicked on was the best contract I had seen – I decided to join after that. CreativePublic has really helped me with copyright agreements and overall business. I recommend this site to any designer.
– Cal Slayton
Interactive Marketing Solutions, Inc. is a proud sponsor of CreativePublic. When I first began IMS in May, 2002 we had the skills and knowledge to create cutting edge designs but we lacked the business and operational experience to create a well organized company structure. That's when we found CreativePublic. Without CreativePublic on our side I don't know how we would have made it this far. Many thanks to CreativePublic and their team for producing what we feel is one of the most educational, well organized, top-level of experienced professionals, outstanding and sought after websites for starting design companies and freelance artists today. CreativePublic...we owe our livelihood to you. Thank you!
– David M. Arnett / Interactive Marketing Solutions
A couple of years ago I found creativepublic.com and I read through the site to find a lot of information that I absolutely ate up. However, starting a business was a little too much for me at the time. But when my full time job got the best of me and I knew that it was time to try and make it on my own I went back to creativepublic.com.
All of the articles are great and motivated me to get stuff done and keep working. The info that I found eased my worries and made starting my business less scary and more exhilarating. There was no need to ever buy the Pricing & Ethical Guidelines book.. It's all here! It's a great source for all graphic designers, as well as Web designers, illustrators & photographers. When building my website, I found a lot of information here on Search Engine Optimization and placement. All useful stuff. I use the contracts and price guides everyday and refer to them for every job.
