9 Ways Website Designers Can Get More Freelance Development Work Fast
A few projects have wrapped up and you don’t have anything in the pipeline. You need to land new freelance development work fast. Try these 9 strategies.
The Key to Your Next Consulting Job: Your Past Experience
You’d like a consulting job but fear you lack experience. Or you want to expand your consulting business but aren’t sure how. Trust us, you’re ready.
How Industrious Coworking Spaces Create Productive Environments for Freelancers
A profile of the Industrious coworking spaces chain discussing how they design locations that freelancers and consultants can thrive in.
How This Freelance Marketing Strategist Went From The E.R. To Bali
In this edition of our freelance career profile series, Kristy Marshall tells how she quit a thriving corporate career to get some balance — and adventure — back into her life. Now she’s making it as a freelance marketing strategist.
Getting the Freelance Rate You Deserve
Don’t allow anxiety to keep you from getting the freelance rate you deserve. Understand your worth and let your pricing reflect it. This article is going to walk you through the negotiating script you need to increase your freelance fees and make more money.
Establish Yourself and Get Jobs on Upwork
We recently covered the best job websites for freelancers and gig economy workers and weighed their individual strengths and weaknesses. Now we’re providing a tutorial for getting jobs on one of the biggest freelance marketplaces available online. This guidance will...
How to Keep a Tight Leash on Your Freelancing Budget
There are lots of great freelance budget tools out there. (In fact we have some on this site.) But to develop a budget for your freelance business for the next year, you first need to sort through these basic strategic questions.
Web Developer to Web Consultant: How to Reframe Your Value
As a freelance web developer, you’re already solving complex problems for your clients. Why not reframe what you do and become a freelance web consultant? That’s the path to earning more and doing more engaging work.
The Freelance Contract: How to Write an Effective Statement of Work
Stop client problems before they happen! LocalSolo.com founder Mark Fromson explains how to create an incredibly effective freelance contract or freelance statement of work. We also have templates and examples for you to try, along with descriptions of the sections every SOW should include.
6 Essential Client Facing Skills You Need For A Successful Consulting Career
Client facing skills are what you draw on when you interact directly with clients: email, phone calls, in-person meetings, presenting your work, and collaboration. How you handle client facing activities impacts the experience your clients have working with you. Improve these skills to set yourself up for success.
How A Landscape Photographer Is Transitioning to Full-Time Freelancing
Erik Sellgren is a landscape photographer currently based in London. A native of Gothenburg, Sweden, Erik has also resided in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Singapore, Seoul and New York. Erik seeks to capture authentic and intriguing moments in peoples' daily lives, as well...
Freelance Graphic Designer Uses Low Overhead To Give Clients What Agencies Can’t
Freelance graphic designer Emily Fitterman has over 25 years experience as an art director and in graphic design. She graduated from School of Visual Arts with a B.F.A. in advertising and honed her craft working for companies such as Random House, Penguin...
You Can Do It! Get Freelance Writing Jobs For Beginners In Just Weeks
Hear from experts who help you make money as a writer. These tips focus on landing great freelance writing jobs for beginners. If you are new to the gig economy and just getting your freelance career started, start here.
How This PR Consultant Is Branching Out Into Content Marketing
You'll find PR consultant Michelle Garrett at the intersection of public relations, content marketing and social media. As a PR consultant, content creator, blogger, speaker and award-winning writer, Michelle’s articles and advice have been featured in...
Running a Freelance Business Takes Purpose – 3 Questions To Help You Find It
While social media may tell us the lie that running a freelance business is more about photos of yourself working in exotic locations than hard work, it is a lie. There is freedom to be found in running a freelance business, but also much hardship. There will be times...
Prove You’re an Expert! 7 Ways Planning Consultants Build Credibility
Everywhere you look, independent planning consultants are calling themselves experts. Whether or not it’s true is beside the point. Just the fact that anyone could call him or herself an expert these days means that people are naturally more suspicious of the term....
7 Powerful Strategies for Getting Recurring Income as a Freelancer
As a freelance consultant, living project-to-project can be tough. A juicy contract could end early. A prospective client could disappear without a trace. A much-needed payment could be trapped somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle of your client’s accounts payable...
Lonely No More: 4 Freelancer Networking Tips for Stay-At-Home Professionals
We grow up amongst a bevy of school friends (and not friends). There’s always a crowd around us, a cohort of classmates so to speak. Then some of us enter the world of work, the island of cubicles, the continent of open office space. Throughout our journey...
How to Find a Mastermind Group for Freelancers . . . Or to Start and Run One Yourself
No more procrastinating – find a mastermind group or start one of your own. This complete guide defines what a mastermind group is, describes types of groups, suggests formats, provides sample agendas and shows what to do if you are running a mastermind group.
Semi-retirement Jobs In the Gig Economy: Interview With Career Expert Nancy Collamer
Nancy Collamer, author of Second-Act Careers, talks about how the gig economy opens up more semi-retirement jobs and how she built her consulting business.
