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FreelanceSwitch.com Launches Freelance
Radio
Biweekly Podcast Explores Growing
Work Lifestyle
Sydney, Australia (October
11, 2007)—Adding to the success of the popular blog geared towards existing and
aspiring freelancers, the FreelanceSwitch
team has announced the launch of their biweekly podcast, Freelance Radio.
The digital radio show features tips
and commentary about marketing, business development, money matters, travel,
and more. Incorporating the active audience at FreelanceSwitch.com, the show
gives listeners a variety of ways to contribute to the podcast`s content,
including submitting their own questions and advice. With a growing number of
designers, writers, programmers, illustrators, photographers, and others
freelancing on the side or as a full-time career, the goal of the show is to
engage listeners with valuable content for a growing work format.
“Eden Creative Communities is the
parent site for FreelanceSwitch, and our sites are a home for creatives around
the world. FreelanceSwitch was the next
logical step for us, to support the many creatives (and others) who freelance
around the world. Freelance Radio is so exciting because it allows us to share our
experience and engage with a whole new audience,” said Cyan Ta’eed, co-founder
of Eden Creative Communities and founder of FreelanceSwitch.com, who is also
one of the show’s panelists.
The show is led by John Brougher, a
technology and new media guru from Providence, Rhode Island. Other panelists include
Dickie Adams, an Oregon-based freelancer specializing in design and consulting;
and Kristen Fischer, a New Jersey copywriter and author of Creatively Self-Employed: How Writers and Artists Deal with Career Ups
and Downs.
“We’re very excited to bring this free
podcast to the ever-increasing amounts of people who are working—or looking to
work—for themselves,” added Fischer. “I believe that the practical business
tips and entertaining repartee between the four of us will support the growing
number of people looking to work for themselves.”
“It is a great honor for us
to be able to serve the Freelance community in this way,” Adams said. “By
helping to further spread the available knowledge base, we hope to encourage
and enable others to accomplish their goals.”
Freelance Radio joins a crowded field
of podcasts, but its audience and content make it unique. “I`m an avid podcast listener myself, and
there`s nothing quite like Freelance Radio out there right now,” explained Brougher. “Just like FreelanceSwitch is the home of the
freelancing community, Freelance Radio occupies a podcasting niche that really
hasn`t been filled.”
Freelance Radio is available for
download at FreelanceSwitch.com, and through iTunes.
FreelanceSwitch.com features daily
postings about succeeding as a freelancer. The interactive community was
founded in 2007 and boasts over 500,000 visitors monthly and 14,000 RSS
subscribers, as well as a host of regular advertisers. FreelanceSwitch is one of a family of sites owned and
operated by Eden Creative Communities based in Sydney, Australia.