Freelance just long enough and you eventually experience cycles of ultimate productivity followed by bouts of ultimate unproductivity. Its actually quite normal and inevitably occurs at some time or another. Our lives are not lived solely as freelancers (most of us anyway) and we have other external forces that affect our work such as sudden…
Scarcity causes you to do dumb things… sober! Usually when it comes to reasons why some freelancers never become successful, things such as work habits, marketing and efficiency come to mind. In other words, the decision making that affect their businesses. What doesn’t come to mind so obviously is a concept that freelancers take for…
I’ve been a freelancer for a little over five years now and I’ve finally come to a point where I am really taking time to evaluate my business to see how I can improve… which is more or less thinking about how to earn more money. My primary conclusion: I could be doing A LOT…
For those freelancers in the States, there’s a little over a month left to go search out those receipts and get your tax returns filed on time. Plenty of time but, if you have been freelancing a while, you then know that the sooner done, the better. No, freelancers don’t have the option of filling…
These days, with all the information out there to help you with freelancing, it should be no problem at all to become successful in a short period of time. You would think so at least. Actually, freelancers are lucky to have a wide range of resources available to them. I’d say you’ve been hiding under…
You’ve seen it everywhere; freelancers are making their presence known, even during rough economic periods. Having been one for about eight years now, I’d say freelancing is the greatest job I’ve ever had. Jump right in! Well, not so fast. It takes some time for a freelance business to get wheels underneath it and to…
Some wise man once said that all rules were made to be broken (I know, cliche). It’s true though. Who ever got by as a freelancer by happily obeying the rules of the working world? Yet despite this career choice, there still always seems to be more rules to have to follow. Well, I give…
I tend to have an on-again, off-again relationship with Twitter. Some weeks are just so busy with work that Twitter plays second fiddle to it. I still don’t get paid to use it so, sorry there little avatars with personalities, you’ll have to wait until next week (or after a night out later tonight). Maybe…
Murphy’s Laws apply to all aspects of life and work. When you think about though, weren’t they made especially for freelancing? For example… If anything can go wrong in freelancing, it will. You’ll survive though. Maybe. Work always comes at you when you are busiest. When you are not busy at all, lots of luck…
If you haven’t figured out Twitter by now, then you wouldn’t notice there is a tendency to follow anyone out there who sends a random tweet your way. Hell, I’m even guilty here. Over time, though, when you really think about who you interact with, isn’t it safe to say that you remain within your…
