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Overdelivery and Expertise Equals Profits

26. July 2010

A lot of freelance writers and content providers can manage to get the customers to their site or profile on elance.com or guru.com but very few can get them to return or tell other people how great their experience with you as a freelancer actually was. The secret is not to rest on your laurels [...]

4 Ways of Getting Business from Previous Clients

15. April 2010

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Some freelancers are of the opinion that the 80:20 rule applies to a freelancer’s business. They reckon that 20% of our income comes from 80% of our clients and 80% of our income comes from 20% of clients. I happen to agree with this, for the most part.
In my own experience I have found that [...]

Innovative Freelancing

14. April 2010

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A definite way of making your business successful is to innovate and refresh your skill, marketing strategy and work life. Sometimes freelancers can confuse innovating within their business with the wrong kind of innovation and end up screwing up their business and driving away potential clients.
Innovating
Innovate everything within your business, advance your skills and take [...]

Is Blogging Really for You?

14. April 2010

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We’ve run over why blogging can have profound effects on your career as a freelancer in terms of gaining exposure and “expert status” but what most people won’t realize is regardless of its advantages, blogging may not be for them. Here’s why.
1) Nothing to start, nothing to keep
Starting up a blog virtually costs nothing, especially [...]

The Secret to Pitching to New Clients

12. April 2010

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I’ve recently been in search of a few new clients to ramp up my work a little to see if I can match the new work load by becoming more efficient and productive. after all, life is about challenging yourself, right? Well, after brushing up on my pitching skills, I went in search of these [...]

Behind the Scenes of the Ebook

12. February 2010

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A few months ago Taiyab and I decided that it was time to give something back and start to teach others and continue to learn those who were more experienced than us. It was this thought which drove us to start up FreelanceApple.com. We shared some of our knowledge through articles and were always open [...]

How Freelancers Should Combat the Feast-Starve Cycle

16. October 2009

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There’s a common problem in the freelancing world which I call the “Feast-Starve” cycle. It’s simply the phenomena that you experience whilst freelancing, where one month all your clients will pay your invoices, and you’ll essentially be flooded and content with your earnings for that month (the “feast” month). Because the freelancer then tends to [...]

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Overdelivery and Expertise Equals Profits

4 Ways of Getting Business from Previous Clients

Innovative Freelancing

Is Blogging Really for You?

The Secret to Pitching to New Clients

Behind the Scenes of the Ebook

How Freelancers Should Combat the Feast-Starve Cycle

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