The ability to win new client projects is an essential skill to any freelancer. It’s something we freelancers practice from the day we get started, and it’s usually a skill ...
A Human’s Guide to Freelance Living is a short manifesto about staying sane, happy and productive as a freelancer. It features tips on finding ideas, staying organized, ...
Staring blankly at a half completed design concept for a batch of new business cards is a freelance designer struggling with a major case of creativity block. Lost for ideas, the ...
One of the first encounters I had with freelancing involved a very talented co-worker who, sadly, was not very knowledgeable about income tax law. His lack of knowledge ultimately ...
As Web designers, we often have to nudge people in the direction we want them to go. It is a vital skill we all have to learn. We’re not talking about manipulation. Underhanded ...
One of the biggest challenges for aspiring freelancers is pricing their services. Like many other topics related to freelancing, freelance pricing is always a subject that ...
Maximizing productivity is a never-ending task for most freelancers. There’s always some way that we can improve or some area that’s lacking the attention it deserves. This ...
When I started out freelancing, the thought of having clients was quite scary … though the thought of having no clients at all was even scarier! Something about the word clients ...
‘Go Freelance’ – the Freelance Advisor Guide to starting out in freelancing. Written by a freelance copywriter who has himself recently gone freelance this is a complete ...
Inspired by an article from Blogsessive – How a Great Backlink Can Make You An Instant Success – I started to scan my favorite design blogs in order to see who’s accepting ...
What is Freelancing? In medieval times when knights roamed the land and fighting was done on horseback with a long pole known as a lance, the mercenaries of the time were ...
In the world of freelancing, the entrepreneur has to take on a number of tasks for themselves that would normally be handled by a separate department at a bigger company. Most of ...
Starting out as a freelancer? Having a reference manual on your bookshelf will make the process much easier. There are great resources — both books and ebooks — that will ...
We rarely like to admit our mistakes, but if we fail to admit them and learn from them then they’re likely to be repeated. In this article I want to admit some of my mistakes to ...