Are you noticing a sudden drop in the number of business inquiries you receive every day/week? As a freelancer your income depends in part on:
Pitching your services in front of prospective clients
Referrals
Direct business inquiries from your website or print advertisements
The referrals depend on the good relationships you have with your previous clients. Since you provide [...]
Blogging can bring your business exposure, credibility, and whole lot more revenue - so it’s in your best interest to deliver a steady stream of powerful writing. But for a lot of us, that’s a tall order. If you’re finding your creative juices running a little dry, this list of quick and easy [...]
Did you know that swearing at work could boost your productivity? That’s what researchers “found out“. Makes me wonder who pays them for doing those studies! ;)
I didn’t know that.. I don’t think it would help my productivity that much. In fact, when that happens, I tend to just wanna leave, like trying to [...]
There are tons of articles on the net about financial planning, invoicing, getting paid, making money, funding, customer relationship, etc…
Well, someone had to put together a list of the best articles/posts (that’s worthy of a bookmark!), and that someone is Jessica Hupp from Bootstrapper, she compiled a list of the 100 best business finance posts.
Replying to business queries is an inveterate part of your freelance life. In most cases you don’t have a secretary to handle your business related correspondences.
Whether it’s pitching for a new project or replying to prospective clients who are interested in hiring you, you constantly need to send emails. This becomes a repetitive and [...]
In an earlier post I asked you how fast you could get back to doing business after a total computer failure.
If you followed the tips in that article you could easily cut your downtime by 75% … but there’s a way to cut it down even further with two free products from VMware. Read on [...]
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