If you are in the business of freelancing writing then it is crucial that you figure out what you are going to charge your clients. There is a fine line between pricing yourself too high so nobody will hire you and pricing yourself so low that you are starving to death. Discovering what you charge [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 26, 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 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 29, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 9, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 6, 2009
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, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 26, 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...Saturday, August 8, 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.
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Thursday, August 5, 2010
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