Top 10 Creative Freelance Careers

According to About.com's article, Following Your Artistic Passion to Find Business Success, the top 10 Creative Freelance Careers are:

1. Scrapbook Design Consultant
Companies, like Creative Memories and Stampn' Up, offer home-based consultant programs....receive a starter kit and then resell the supplies, and other related products, through home party demonstrations.. provide scrapbooking services to others...use your talent to create gift cards and other custom products to sell direct.
2. Speciality Freelance Writer
...time to think beyond the standard freelancing notion of writing copy for brochures, white papers and magazine articles - and get creative...copy for online greeting cards...custom party invitations, thank you notes or love letters....professional complaint letters to send to offending corporations.
3. Color Consultant
Color consultants are companions to the interior design business...boosting the need for color consultants in both homes and businesses is the Feng Shui movement and the recognition of the effects of color on mood.
4. Waterscapes Design Consultant
...focusing on outdoor living spaces and custom-designed gardens....help home owners and businesses utilize water elements in their outdoor spaces.
5. Real Estate Marketing Consultant
As a home staging professional you are paid to declutter, rearrange and organize a home so that it looks its best for showing to prospective buyers...create an attention-getting Open House...
6. Social Media Consultant
A growing trend is the use of social networking sites, such as FaceBook, MySpace and Second Life to market a traditional business...advise companies on issues such as, the most appropriate, and cost-effective means of advertising on these and other social networking sites; creating viral videos; and even on implementing and maintaining a corporate blog.
7. Event Coordinator
Stop thinking in terms of wedding planning and boring, corporate functions...coordinating lavish Sweet 16 parties for teens, or the Spanish equivelant of the Quinceanera party...create intimate, romantic dinner parties for two and to organize unique and over-the-top memorial and funeral services for the ultimate going-away party.
8. Jewelry Designer and Buying Consultant
Using precious gems or intricate beadwork to design jewelry is a wonderful way to evoke your creative muse...consider designing custom necklaces, or jeweled collars, for pampered dogs and cats....design custom pieces to add to cell phones, digital cameras and MP3 players.
9. Graphic Artist
...specialize in online graphics. For example, you could use your artful imagination to design Avatars, or graphical representations of people for use online. Similarly, you could put web-based artwork to use in video games, Flash ads, and online videos.
10. Play Consultant
Companies once paid big money for employees to attend team-building programs, and now that same concept has been reinvented as a play therapist...consult companies on how to use play and creative thinking in brainstorming events to engage employees and solicit better ideas...advise on how to use fun as a way to de-stress overworked, burned-out employees...or provide weekly exercise programs or creative play sessions for their students.

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Comments

[Melanie]

Thanks for sharing this list. It really shows how creative freelancing can be. Who would have thought you could be a social media consultant?