Freelancing

10 tips to survive the 1st year of freelancing

March 22, 2011 Freelancing

Today marks my 1-year anniversary as a full-time freelancer. In the past 365 days I’ve made some interesting observations about this business. Here are ten I can remember in no particular order: People are strange. Mostly they’re awesome, but occasionally they’re abusive, overly-demanding or just plain dumb. Get used to it. You’re not a successful [...]

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The Freelancers Scoresheet

March 29, 2010 Freelancing
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Over the Christmas break I wrote a one-page marketing plan for my business. On it I decided what my goals for the 2010 Game of Freelancing were going to be and how I wanted to go about achieving them. Just as every game needs a system to keep track of the score and figure out [...]

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