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How Freelancers Should Combat the Feast-Starve Cycle

16. October 2009

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 [...]

4 Simple Ways to Impress a Potential Client

4. October 2009

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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 [...]

8 Brilliant Freelance Job Boards to Help You Get More Clients

5. September 2009

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8 Brilliant Freelance Job Boards to Help You Get More Clients

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.

101 Helpful Tips and Tricks for Freelancers

26. August 2009

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101 Helpful Tips and Tricks for Freelancers

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 [...]

Doing It Free: Great Move or Self Destruction?

8. August 2009

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Doing It Free: Great Move or Self Destruction?

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.

A Sexy Portfolio: The Key to Pulling Clients

30. July 2009

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A Sexy Portfolio: The Key to Pulling Clients

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 [...]

5 Reasons Freelancers Need to Blog

11. July 2009

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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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How Freelancers Should Combat the Feast-Starve Cycle

4 Simple Ways to Impress a Potential Client

8 Brilliant Freelance Job Boards to Help You Get More Clients

101 Helpful Tips and Tricks for Freelancers

Doing It Free: Great Move or Self Destruction?

A Sexy Portfolio: The Key to Pulling Clients

5 Reasons Freelancers Need to Blog

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