Win a Free Copy of the Freelance Starter Kit
Published in Site NewsUPDATE: The contest has now ended. Thank you to everyone who participated. The winners were announce here.
We’re happy to announce the launch of our most recent bundle of resources at Vandelay Premier, the Freelance Starter Kit! This is a bundle of 20 resources that have been released to Vandelay Premier members, and it’s now available in one convenient bundle to those who are not members. Its purpose is to help new freelancers to build their business on a solid foundation. The resources will also be helpful for those who have been freelancing for a while but are looking for better results.
The Freelance Starter Kit includes:
- Contract templates (web design, logo design, website maintenance, SEO, plus a non disclosure agreement)
- Identity sets (invoice, proposal, letterhead, business card)
- Ebooks
- Interviews with successful designers
- General use website icons
The contract templates have been especially popular since they were released earlier this month. If you want to see more details about the specific resources included, please see the page for the Freelance Starter Kit at Vandelay Premier, it includes links to each individual resource or pack.
The combined price of all the resources included in the bundle is $108, but the bundle can be purchased for just $29 (Vandelay Premier members also have access to all of the resources). And as a special offer for our blog readers you can save $5 with the discount code “blogreader” (purchase at Vandelay Premier).
We’re also going to be giving the bundle for free to 5 people! If you’d like to enter to win one of the free bundles all you have to do is leave a comment on this post. Feel free to give us some feedback about what resources in this bundle are of the most interest to you or what resources you would like to see included. Your feedback would be greatly appreciated.
If anyone purchases the bundle now and then wins the contest, we’ll refund the purchase.
Rules of the Contest:
The rules are simple. Leave a comment on this post (no more than 1 comment per person). On Friday, May 27th we’ll select the 5 winners using a random integer generator. Be sure you leave a valid email address as that is how we will be contacting the winners.
Good luck!
237 Responses
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Thanks, Vandelay
Oh my, sweet grab. I would love the contact forms.. NDA, SEO, Maintenance
Thanks!
I’m in
Thank you.
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These resources sound super exciting! Especially excited to see what advice the ebooks offer!
Great!!!
Thanks for this great opportunity!
Winner winner chicken dinner?
I think the most important and useful thing of the bundle are the contract templates, something very important for freelancers and when we start we do not pay much attention, so, thats why I`d love to get the bundle. Thanks!
I would love to have something like this. Aside from the contract templates, it would be eye opening to learn from other designers’ interviews.
I would also love to get my hands on this! Everything in the package looks useful, but I would really like the contract templates….I’m a coder/designer, not a legal guy!
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Thanks and good luck.
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Sounds good, I would use the marketing/biz tools -invoice, proposal, letterhead, business card. I hope I win!
Cheers!
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Great way to compare all of my current tools and make sure I’m on top of things.
I think, though, that the E-books could prove incredibly helpful…
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Hope I can win this!
always good to take the freelancing up a pitch. Be keen to have a browse thru that kit… nice giveaway guys!
I am just now starting my own design/marketing business and this would be an excellent resource for me to have as I set everything up. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to win a free copy!
Fabulous giveaway, and perfect timing!!
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I think the contracts are the the most interesting item,but I also would like to read the interviews.
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I want to be the winner!
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Would love to have these priceless items to help myself better understand freelancing in a legal way! Tired of the fake or half legit freelance help sites out there! God Bless!
I’d love to use some of the identity sets and forms included
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It’s hard to be freelancer. Maybe that will help
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This would be an amazing prize to win. Comes at exactly the time where I am asking all if these freelancing questions. Fingers are crossed!!
All right! Great package up for grabs!
I almost never enter free giveaways but this opportunity is too good to pass up.
The Contract Templates and Identity Sets would be incredibly helpful but it’s actually the general use Website Icons that I would most love, they’d be a massive time-saver.
I could really use some solid contracts. This blog always provides the goods.
Looks like a great package!
Just starting out…could use the help!
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Everything here sounds really useful…especially since I am just really getting started on freelance work. Plus Vandelay is great and super useful!
Everything sounds so useful, especially the contract templates and ebooks. I’m a student and want to start freelancing and all these resources sound excellent. Thanks Vandelay.
yes please
would find it really useful especially the identity sets
Count me in, can never have enough resources at your disposal.
I just started taking a web authoring class and have found it to be very interesting, especially since I’ve just changed my major to web design and could use all the resources available, especially with the rising cost of tuition.
I could use all the help I can get for freelancing.
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I’m curious about all this… really.
What great timing … I’ve been thinking about making the jump to freelance!
Need this badly.
Your blog is one of the few I read religiously (and tweet about often!) Your helpful tips and resources have really helped my new business take off. I recently purchased the contracts which raised many potential legal issues I hadn’t thought of before.
This bundle pack looks like a good investment for anyone who wants to be successful.
Thanks for sharing all your great stuff.
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I’ve been a fan of yours for sometime now and look forward to getting your email newsletters. I’ve been doing web/graphic design and product photography for over 15+ years now but always manage to learn something new from your newsletters. Thank you and keep up the good work! Would love to get the kit! Aloha!
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too useful for professional’s that’s why needed.
Very useful resource !!! lets see who is lucky one
and the winner is…
Just joined a startup, this bundle would be very useful! Especially the ebooks.
Great prize. Hope to win this one.
Great idea – thanks!
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hope to get this… thanks!
starving art student needs freebies!
This would be so beneficial to everyone. We all struggle at the beginning. I know I have. I developed bad habits at my first job that still haunt me to this day. This is the right and proper way to go about business.
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I want!!
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Please make me the winner … it would make me smile
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May the gods of randomness be with me 
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Thank you, great stuff !
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Thanks
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Help… i need the kick-starter kit for freelancers!
Great bundle, generous contest.
Count me in:)
Oh, those vontracts would be sweet to win.. and the identity sets… and the ebooks.. and…
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Destiny will decide :O
Hope to win!
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I’m certainly curious how this could improve my freelancing
What a wonderful prize to win, thanks for the opportunity.
Sue : )
Hey !
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Best wishes,
lena
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Just starting out as a freelancer and would LOVE to have such a great resource!
The whole package is really good and highly useful for beginners….especially the contract templates…..as an addition I would also like to have some learning material/e-books/links for website development…
Awesome! Love free stuff
Pick me!
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Hey, this is amazing! I also think contract templates would be best for beginners, i’m however most looking forward to the interviews
Greetings from Poland,
Ag
Hi, this starter kit is what I need to improve my business. Count me in.
Thanks
Great!
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God I’d love to win
I would love to win this, ’cause now that I’m starting my freelance career it will be really usefu – as the name say it ! I would love to put my hand on the contract templates and identity set, to make my presence on the market more visible and unique!
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pick me!
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Lots of entries so far! Hoping I win. Thanks for hosting this giveaway.
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Love your newsletter and your blog. I could so totally use this starter kit to restart!
Pretty sure this is the thing for me. Tired of clients sneaking in weird clauses to my contracts. “Surrender first born upon delivery of creative.” “Perform as a Circus Clown at client’s 5yr old birthday party.” “MUST use Comic Sans in all creative.” If I had these resources, I’d be able to protect myself! Thanks Vandelay Design!
This would be a great to win! Would be really helpful for starting my own freelancing business!
like what you have to offer looking to have own wed site soon and like the looks of what you have too offer to help
Starter kit, for a starting designer. Sounds right to me.
But seriously, you guys such a great job at educating reading and providing invaluable resources and content for your followers. Awesome stuff. If only it could some how magically make me better…
Would love this!
This is very useful, especially the legal documents, which are the most complicated to get right.
Very nice prize.
I’m a completely self-taught freelancer who could really use the professional aspect of this kit. Thanks!
I’m graduating in a month and this would take some of the scary out of freelancing.
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Sounds great! Wish I had this a while ago….
This is a very good resource to have. Just as much that this site offers.
Nice bundle! Interested in the contract templates.
Love the icons! Another item that would be nice to include is time/project tracking software – but this bundle looks great nonetheless!
Cool, thanks for doing this contest =)
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Would love this, great giveaway
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Would love to get my hands on a free kit
I would love to win, and if I am randomly selected it will be sheer awesomeness of the stars aligning for my birthday on the 28th!
I am most excited about the “Interviews with successful designers” section. I love to read and learn from others.
Just starting out as a full-time freelancer. This would be an awesome resource!
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I just lost at craps, but hopefully I’ll be more lucky at this! Sounds like an awesome resource for a college kid like me
This would be an AMAZING resource for a starter such as myself, preparing to enter the web design and mobile design worlds…working freelance for ministries/missions/social justice groups (my goal is to provide services for those who cannot otherwise afford professional design)…I could definitely use the info!!
Would love one.
Winning this would be absolutely amazing, specially considering how I have just started out on freelancing work fulltime.
That’s what I need to leave the couch and get started!
Hopefully I’ll get it
I’m just starting up my own business, and would love everything in that package. The contracts especially, since that’s where I lack the most in knowledge. But the eBooks and the icons will be great sources for inspiration.
love contests!
Nice offer.
*comment*
All I need to start well ^_^
Useful kit.
Awesome!
Freelance is my life!!!
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Everything in this package would be extremely useful for me at this moment!
I’ll keep my fingers crossed!!! ^_^
If I don’t win it, i may just buy it anyway. What a terrific resource!
With so much to consider when starting to do freelance, this is a great resource.
Great, as one guru once said – for freelancer experience is most essential. Even more than formal education.
I need it!
hook it up!
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Love it! Just starting to freelance again and could really use it.
want it!
Perfect timing. Starting a freelancing business. I love Vandelay
Would be a great resource.
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This would help me out sooo much with my career. Great Resource
Hey, this website is plenty of good ideas and proposals and, last but not least, contents are always very well issued.
I hope to be lucky !
Regards
I would love to have this kit to become a successful freelance web designer
hoot!
im in! thanks : )
Student looking to succeed in life as a freelancer.
thanks!
This kit would be great!
This is exactly what I would need to get started for real, wow!! How awesome of you to have a competition and give a few out for free!!
I am excited mkst about the identity kits and the interviews. I hope I win!
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I love to see how other freelance designers operate so I would love to see the contracts and see any interviews or anything relating to how successful freelancers make their business profitable.
This giveaway is so unresistable…I have been looking for someone authoritative to unlock hidden skills and techniques in the field of web design. I hope I could win! I must win!
Seems really useful
Perfect timing
Starting 1 July as a freelancer
Freelance is the way to go!
Sounds like a fantastic resource! Cool stuff.
I would love to win this pack! It would help me out a ton! Cheers-
fingers crossed
Sounds awesome!
This would be awesome, if I don’t win, which is likely, I am so buying this
I’d love this for the stationery
I’d love to get the freelance starter kit!
If only we could ALL have one!
Great product sound very usefull to get up to speed. thanks for the opportunity for the drawing
Wow! This looks great
Im really interested in those stationery templates, as well as the Ebooks.
I’m completing my web design degree this fall and this would surely be a huge benefit for me. Thanks for another great giveaway!!!
Great starter kit for a recently graduated Graphic Designer. Sounds Awesome!
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i want it! if i win it i’ll share it with my freelance pals!
I could really use this starter kit.
This look incredibly helpful, I hope I win!
I’m very interested in the Identity set, ebooks and Interviews
Looks interesting.
Specially for me that I just started.
I’m in!
The Freelance Starter Kit can be a nice extra to make a good start if you ask me!
I’d sure like one!
Might be just be what I needed to push me over to the freelancers among us!
This would be a great tool to get my jewelry design business off the ground!
boom
Good freelance resource.