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 [...]
Continue reading...4. October 2009
Freelancing can be tough if you don’t get on with your clients. Client satisfaction can lead to further work and a good reputation. Unfortunately many freelancers will see this as a laborious task and find it difficult. I have, therefore, compiled four simple methods which you can easily implement in order to make it significantly [...]
Continue reading...5. September 2009
Applying for work through job boards has become a staple within the freelance industry, and everyone is competing on the job boards to score more work, especially in such economic conditions we’re in at the moment. This means that there are an ever-dwindling amount of jobs available for an ever-growing amount of people.
Continue reading...26. August 2009
As a freelancer, you are in total control of what you do with your time, who you work for, how you work, and when you work. You control all aspects of marketing, and servicing your clients. That is why it is the ultimate goal of a freelancer to reach a state where their work flow [...]
Continue reading...8. August 2009
In the world of freelancing, many freelancers will tell you to never work for free, as if it is a crime punishable by death. I beg to differ, in some cases. So, I have discussed the what-where-when-how-who of working for free.
Continue reading...30. July 2009
Courting the opposite sex and pitching a potential client have uncanny resemblances. In our younger years, the best advice we received was “Do not judge a book by it’s cover”, but despite the previous generation drilling this into us and our generation drilling it in to the next, we became hypocrites and did not follow [...]
Continue reading...11. July 2009
Many freelancers don’t see the almost symbiotic relationship between blogging and freelancing. They don’t see the vast, untold advantages it can have on their business. They don’t see any of it, they see it as futile and “a waste of time”. Well, let me tell you, if you’re a freelancer, and you haven’t started a [...]
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16. October 2009
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