One of the problems a lot of new freelancers face, is maintaining the proper role in the freelancer/client relationship. On the one hand, you became a freelancer to gain more control over your life….to be your own boss. Problem is, from the perspective of many clients, you work for them until a project is completed. [...]
By now I’m sure most (if not all) of you have heard about the new FreelanceSwitch ebook ‘How To Be A Rockstar Freelancer‘. Well, if you haven’t read it yet, trust me you should, it is filled with incredible information, it really is one of the best ebook I’ve read so far, and I’ve read [...]
Hello everyone, today we have an interview with Grace Smith of Postscript5. In this interview we talk about how being active on blogs and forums can help your business and you’ll also get to know Grace better if you didn’t know her already. She’s very cool :)
Blogs are great - don’t get me wrong - but it’s just too easy to get sucked into reading too many of them and pretending you don’t notice your productivity plummet. Here are 3 simple tips for guaranteeing that getting your blog fix doesn’t result in an overdose that kills your ability to rake [...]
Hi everyone, I hope you had a great week! Week-end is here, even though it’s not long there’s still more than enough time to read some blog posts and learn a thing or two.
First of all, the cool folks at FreelanceSwitch just released their first book titled ‘How To Be A Freelance Rockstar‘. I haven’t [...]
A reader of FreelanceFolder who shall remain unnamed (let’s call him Bob for the purpose of this post) sent me an e-mail a couple of days ago, seeking advice. Bob is a writer with a newspaper background.
Here’s what he wrote:
I am a corporate communications professional seriously considering the freelance world, and the only thing [...]
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How to Read
Who needs to learn how to read? After all, we all learned how to read fairly early in life, usually in elementary school, right? But do you know how to really read? More importantly, are you really reading?
9 Easy Usability Improvements for Blogs
One of our primary goals as designers is to constantly improve the usability of our websites and blogs. Content, while very important, doesn’t help readers if they can’t easily get to it.
