Freelance Apple

In all the years of my freelancing career and indeed beyond this to entrepreneurship, there were several types of clients who kept popping up. I respect all clients and their concerns, but some of them made my life a living hell. Looking back I can think of ten things which clients have said or done [...]

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 [...]

I’m sure most of us have read C. S. Lewis’s classic ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’. In this story four children enter a wardrobe and find a portal through which they enter a different world to ours called ‘Narnia’. The reason for me to mention this story here is because of the similarities [...]

For any freelancer at any time it is extremely discomforting and sometimes even offensive when a potential client challenges your rate. The recession has brought the stingier side of clients and haggling clients has become an every day occurrence for freelancers. It is therefore necessary for any freelancer to know how to deal properly with [...]

In the case of any emergency we have become accustomed to rely on the trustworthy number ‘911′ in the USA and ‘999′ in the UK. Unfortunately there is no freelancer’s 911 or 999 for when disasters strikes your business, you have to pull through it without resuscitation or a rescue team. This thought is frightening [...]

Many freelancers will have set up goals this year and by now will be feeling the pressure of following these goals through to an adequate result.  The most successful people in the world set goals and follow them through which means that the only difference is that the successful people know how to keep to [...]

The young guns reading this will probably wonder at the title (kids, it was a song) but regardless I will today speak of the effects of coffee and TV on the work of a freelancer. We have grown to become a coffee nation and we seldom wonder at the effect it may be having on [...]

My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
Miles Davis
There is no doubt in my mind that almost every successful man to have walked upon earth woke up early. People have a general misunderstanding that freelancing entails waking up when you feel like it [...]

The best thing about being a freelancer is that you can take a holiday whenever you want. Luxury comes with its responsibilities and in this case means that ought to have a lot of discipline with your work. You may wish to take a work-free vacation and not work while on your vacation. I would [...]