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How You Can Get Awesome Freelance Gigs Using Social Media
Answer me this: how long do you spend on social media a day? Whether it’s trawling through mundane update after mundane update on Facebook or pinning your favourite food and DIY pics on Pinterest, I’m guessing it takes up a good chunk of your day. Well, if you’re...
How to Turn Your Hobby into a Freelance Career While You Travel
The biggest pull for a lot of freelancers is the opportunity to have more time to do the things they love. To spend less time commuting and building someone else’s brand and more time working hard at building their own to give them the freedom they’ve always dreamt...
Back on the Ball With Freelancing: September Recap
September’s gone already, who can believe it? I was just settling into the month and then I looked up and it had gone. I’m enjoying the autumnal weather, though, and the cosy feelings that this time of year brings – warm jumpers, crisp morning walks, and even more...
How to Work From Home Without Going Stir Crazy
Sometimes I talk to myself. Sometimes I talk to myself more than I’ll talk to anyone else in a given day. Sometimes, I start to think talking to myself is normal. This might well be a sign that I’m fast heading for crazy-land, but it’s more likely that it’s a...
Market Your Freelance Services: 5 Things You Can do Right Now
If you’re a freelancer you literally have to be the most proactive person in the universe. There’s no room for kicking back and relaxing with a cuppa. There’s always work to be done! Even if there’s no actual work to be done, you could be...
Let’s Talk About Working For Free: Should You? Shouldn’t You?
When you’re a freelancer there’s always a big pink elephant in the room. It stands over you caressing your face with its hairy trunk when you’re on call to a client and it spears you in the chest with its tusk when you see the PERFECT job ad, only to realise it’s...
The One Thing You Need to Know to Create the Perfect Freelancer Portfolio Website
I’m a writer. I write every day for corporate brands and blogs, but when it comes to writing about myself I often run out of words. This is exactly what happened when I was updating my freelancer portfolio website yesterday. On Wanderful World, I feel as free as a...
6 No-Brainer Reasons Why I’m Excited About Moving to Spain (Again)
In my August recap the other day I made a little bit of an announcement. I didn’t want to go into too much detail there because I think it deserves its own post entirely. I mean, I don’t want to push it into a corner or anything. In fact, I want to sing it from the...
The Ups and Downs of Freelancing: August Recap
Oh man, seriously! August slipped through my fingers quicker than anything and I’m still not quite sure how I’m sitting here on the 1st September writing this post after it feels like I wrote last month’s recap just yesterday. It was actually my 25th birthday...
What I Learned From Spending Time Away From the Internet (Sort Of)
“Lizzie, do you really need to be on your phone at this time?” “I’m emailing a client,” I replied to my mum who was sitting on the sofa next to me in our holiday cottage in Yorkshire. It was almost 11pm and I was responding to a client offer after a day spent...
When Life Gives You Lemons: How to Get Your Freelancing Mojo Back
This week has not been a good week for me freelance-wise. Well, let’s extend that to the last month, shall we? The last month has not been good for my freelance-wise. As well as some family problems that have been taking up a lot of my time and energy, I’ve pretty...
How to Increase Your Freelance Writing Rate With the Less is More Mindset
Less is more certainly doesn’t seem to be a phrase that’s apt for the 21st century when we all seem to be on the hunt for bigger and better. More is more, surely? When it comes to freelancing writing it could be easy to think that, too. Surely more work means more...