Earning An Honest Living Is Bad?

Posted in Random Thoughts on January 3rd, 2010 by Romelo Itong

In 2009, I worked for a marketing company in the United States as a subcontractor. The work I did for this company involved designing landing pages and banners ads and, as far as I know, it was an honest work. What this company do with the landing pages and banner ads afterward is already none of my business. The same is true with the websites I designed and developed for my clients. What they do with their website after it is finished and deployed is none of my business too. My only concern is that I get paid after each work is completed and delivered to the them.

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Just because I created landing pages for another company or client doesn’t mean that I’m going to start annoying people with pop-ups or that I’m going to start e-mail spamming people. It was just work. I was subcontracted by a company to make landing pages and banner ads and it was an honest paying work that fed my family for several months. I don’t see anything wrong with it.

Tags: banner ads, business, clients, landing pages, paying work, subcontractor, websites, work

It’s Good but It’s Not?

Posted in Random Thoughts on June 1st, 2009 by Romelo Itong

I have been working for this company in the United States as an offshore design resource, more or less, for 6 months now. My job is to design and create e-mail promo and survey promo landing pages and other graphics for their clients with the occassional HTML and website jobs. In that 6 months period, my contacts will tell me that the designs I make are good but they will also talk to me from time to time informing that my designs are not up to par with their standards. Now this is a little bit confusing for me because how can they be good if they’re not up to par with their standards, right? O_o

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I was removed from designing e-mail promo pages but was transferred to designing survey promo pages. A template was provided for me to use and I was instructed to just base my designs on the template’s design, which I did. At first, everything was running smoothly and I was commended for doing a great job on the designs I make even though all of them looked basically the same with minor variations on the fonts used, gradient styling, color scheme, etc. but they were fine with that simple style. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: color scheme, designs, e-mail promo, fonts, freelance, good, landing pages, offshore, survey promo