Posted in : Web business November 16th, 2009 by ramona - 4 Comments »

My activity on the blog was pretty scarce lately so you might not know about my new professional situation. 3 months ago the radio station I have worked for the past 3 years closed its local studio and I was fired. Recession is serious in Romania too and mass-media is one of the most affected [...]

Posted in : our blog November 16th, 2009 by ramona - 2 Comments »

My country is getting used to all those abbreviations and weird names: CEO, PhD, MBA etc. Since we have a lot of firms coming from other parts of the world with their own hierarchies, you can imagine everyone is an Executive Manager, or General Manager .. Many of the employees “run” after these titles and [...]

Posted in : .. it really drives me nuts August 7th, 2009 by ramona - 7 Comments »

I asked about the best options regarding freelance sites in the previous article. I would like to thank the people who advised me by commenting or email. My own experience with some of these sites will be shared in a future article. Now, let’s moan a bit about the crazy requests some “clients” have on [...]

Posted in : Web business July 28th, 2009 by ramona - 8 Comments »

Since I am self-employed right now (3 weeks ago the radio station I worked for closed) and have a lot of time on my hands, I was trying to see what more I can do as a designer/content creator.
So I started some accounts on some ‘top’ freelance sites. Right now I have a sour taste [...]

Posted in : Web business April 16th, 2009 by ramona - 13 Comments »

I started my small web business 2 years ago. I had to save money for few months to be able to pay for all the taxes to establish my small “web entity” into a real business one. Work was hard, as it still is, but the results started showing. My family had some more money [...]
