Product Placement: Business Cards

resume t-shirt.

Yesterday, I posted about getting out more. Hopefully, when you do eventually get out, you’ll remember to bring your business cards with you.

Oddly enough, many freelancers don’t think to get business cards done up for themselves, especially when they’re just starting out. I suppose that, for them, business cards were something they received from full-time employers in order to confer legitimacy upon themselves.

Thing is, they can provide legitimacy to your freelance business as well (in addition to making in-person networking easier and more fruitful).

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Product Placement: The Resume T-Shirt

resume t-shirt.

If you’re interested in practicing a rather…exhibitionistic form of guerrilla self-marketing, there’s nothing like wearing your expertise on your sleeve. Literally.

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Product Placement: Thinking Outside the Cubicle

trapped in a box

Now that you’re outside the cubicle — that cheerless box that you would futilely attempt to personalize with pithy buttons purchased at Newbury Comics and artsy postcards — perhaps it’s time to indulge in a desk that really reflects your personality.

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Product Placement: Task Clips Remember So You Don’t Have To

clips.

I’ve always thought that the best part of going back to school was back-to-school shopping.

When I eventually left the classroom behind for the office, things barely changed.

Forget the office supply closet. I brought in my own office supplies, even going so far as to lug in my own, higher-quality three-hole punch.

Now that I have a home office, I feel that my office supplies have no bounds.

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Product Placement: Friend of the Cluttered Freelancer

clean workspace.

I’ve written about BlueLounge products several times before over at the Modern Materialist: here, here, and here. That’s because their products belie an invested interest in making our lives easier, mostly by attacking clutter at its root.

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