Freelance Forecast Employers Say Recession Has Affected Their Freelance Budgets

More from the Boomvang Creative Freelance Forecast survey, this time from the employer perspective….

All that social media you’re investing in as a freelancer, trying to get clients’ attention, might be misdirected energy.

According to the employer survey (again, not a scientific poll), 95 percent of respondents who hire freelancers said word of mouth was “the best” way to find freelancers, or else that it “usually works.” More than six in 10 said that professional associations were fertile sources of freelancers; only 37 percent cited traditional networking groups, and about a third said social media “usually works.”

If true, consider ponying up the few bucks to join a few associations.

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