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Why Your Personality is SO Important for Freelancing in 2017
I’ve just got back to my desk after a 3-week trip away without my laptop (it was glorious, as you can imagine!), and I’ve come back feeling disillusioned with the whole freelancing world. It seems that everyone is telling new freelancers to “do this, and do that”...
4 Ways to Make Sure your Website is Ready to Sell Services
Your website is such a powerful tool for your business, but it's important to get it right if you actually want to get more clients. Today, I've got Aleia Walker on the blog talking about how you can make sure your website is set up for sales. Your website can be a...
14 Quick Things You Can Do to Market Your Freelance Business Today
The number one problem freelancers face is finding the time to market their business. Or, more bluntly, knowing how to effectively market their business in the first place. Either you have too many clients to find five minutes to put yourself out there, or you don’t...
How I Use Trello to Organise My Freelance Workload
When you’re starting out freelancing, it can seem like you’ll never have enough projects to balance. Then, all of a sudden, you’ve got 3 clients, each of which have 2 projects. Then that doubles, and doubles again, until suddenly you can’t...
The Lessons Learned From a Client Who Doesn’t Pay
We've all been there: tricky clients who try to undermine our contracts or those who just don't pay at all. It's part and parcel of being a freelancer. Today, I want to share Liz McMahon's story about what she learned from a client who refused to pay her for her work....
What Happens When You Underestimate a Project Cost and How to Fix It
Trying to estimate the cost of a project is difficult if a) you've never done something like it before, and b) you have no idea how long it's going to take. This guest post by Sherri Henkin of Content Clarified shares her story of underestimating the cost of a project...
How to Turn on Your Sales Charm to Sell More Services
As freelancers, our services are the core of our business. Without them, we don’t have a business and, well, they’re what attract clients to us in the first place. But, as is the way with running any kind of business, you want to sell more services. Which means...
Q&A: Should I Take Low Paying Gigs to Boost My Reputation?
This new Q&A slot will offer weekly advice for common questions freelancers have. If you have a question you’d like answered, please leave a comment here or email me. QUESTION: Should I take low paying gigs to boost my reputation in the early days of my career?...
Behind the Scenes: The Making of Creative Freelancing Freedom
It all started 18 months ago. It was nearing the end of 2016 and I’d managed to take my business from floundering to super successful in the space of a year and people were starting to notice. I was receiving tens of emails every week from new freelancers or those who...
Learn to Build a Profitable Freelance Business With This 4-Step Framework
All we want to do is build a profitable freelance business, right? We want a business that gives us the freedom we’ve always craved, the chance to work with amazing clients, and the opportunity to earn an unlimited income. We want a business that gives us the freedom...
4 Super-Easy Ways You Can Earn More Freelancing This Year
What’s your number one goal this year as a freelancer? Is it to earn more freelancing than you did last year? If it is, you’re not alone friend! Oh heck no. In fact, I’m willing to bet that more revenue is at the top of most freelancers’ to-do lists this year – and...
3 Pro-Tips to Help You Feel More Confident About Freelancing in 2017
Let me guess. You have big plans for your freelancing business in 2017 but there’s something holding you back. It’s a niggling feeling you can’t quite put your finger on. Maybe you can’t seem to find or land the clients you dream of working with or maybe you don’t...