1. Your name?
HAZNUL IDZUAN

2. Where are you are based (Country/Area)?
SELANGOR / PERAK / KL .. MALAYSIA

3. What type of work do you do? (design for print, web, multimedia etc)
design for print, corporate branding, advertising, multimedia

4. How many years had you been working in the design industry before you went freelance?
1 year

5. How long have you been freelancing?
3 years

6. Why did you decide to go freelance?
free to present the ideas

7. How did you market yourself (find design work/new clients) in the beginning - (online portfolio/brochure/direct mail/email/phone etc)?
meeting and family mambers, relatives and friends.... then peoples start looking for me..

8. How do you market yourself (find design work) now?
door to door

9. How did you decide what to charge?
depend on how long the project will take, the concept, element of design, market, mostly the customers....

10. Do you work from home/have an office/work inhouse at design agencies?
i do all the stuff in my studio...(from home actually)

11. How do you organise your workload, do you work long hours?
i have many staff and friends who willing to help

12. How much holiday do you give yourself?
depend, i love my work and my studio...

13. How do you keep up to date with what is happening in the industry?
Blogs, magazines, conferences, internet, tv

14. What about the business side of things, accounting, invoicing, bookkeeping, how do you manage it?
i have a trusted secretary,.. (my sister)

15. What is the biggest piece of advice you would give to someone starting out freelancing?
confidence to everything you say.. and be ready to be reject.

16. Would you ever go back to fulltime work?
depend