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3 Ways to Evolve Your Freelancing Career

There comes a time during the course of your career as a freelancer where you have a steady influx of clients, and most of them go away satisfied with your services, ready to refer other people to you. Things are going well, and you’ve even had to turn down clients because of being swamped with [...]

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Fixed vs. Hourly – The Rate Faceoff

Fundamentalism can have its disadvantages in today’s world. Many freelancers will stick to their ideologies and never swim in different waters, perhaps fearing that they may try new things – God forbid! Some freelancers who charge fixed task-based rates will never charge to hourly and vice versa. I will, therefore, make the case for fixed [...]

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3 Ways to Skyrocket Your Income as a Freelancer

Our cash flow as freelancers is crazy at times. During one month we won’t see a single penny reach our hands, whilst the next the whole world’s wealth seems to shower us. This is a problem within itself for freelancers, and there isn’t much you can do to stop this from happening. In current times, [...]

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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 [...]

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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.

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The Recession and Project Pricing

Pricing has always been a fundamental part of our jobs as freelancers. We are, ultimately, providing a service of our expertise, for money. An artist paints art and we create designs or create websites, and just as the artist is rewarded for good work, so are we. The problem arises in how to market your [...]

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