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About the author: Dave Navarro is a business productivity coach who loves showing freelancers how to make more money and have more time for themselves. Get more of the good stuff at Rock Your Day or follow Dave on Twitter.

Why Your Rates Are Painfully Lower Than They Should Be

Posted April 14, 2008 in Business 17 Rockin' Comments »

When you take on a new project, you take on a very specific per-hour rate - either an agreed upon rate ($40/hr, and I told the client it should take about 10 hours) or a per project rate ($400, but I think it will take 10 hours, so that’s $40/hr). But for far too many [...]

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3 Steps To Creating A Freelancing Brand That Sells

Posted April 7, 2008 in Business, How-To, Marketing 22 Rockin' Comments »

Dependable. Innovative. Trustworthy. Creative … any one of these words (and many others) could describe your personality as a freelancer. But are you making sure that potential clients know exactly why you stand out from the competition?
If you’re not wrapping your personal brand around everything you present to the world online, [...]

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3 Simple Productivity Hacks For Web-Working Freelancers

Posted March 17, 2008 in Productivity 23 Rockin' Comments »

When your freelancing business keeps you in front of a computer screen for most of your working day, it’s easy to fall victim to some of the time-honored productivity drains that have reduced many an entrepreneurial income. If you’re not careful (and just a little bit vigilant), things that don’t seem like such a [...]

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Open Thread: How Can You Double Your Sales Per Client?

Posted March 9, 2008 in Open Thread 5 Rockin' Comments »

As many of you have been following on my Freelance Smackdown! threads, I’ve been putting Christine O’Kelly’s eBook to the test - and it’s passing with flying colors. One of the gems in this book is a piece of advice that’s so simple you may have never thought of it - but it could [...]

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3 Uncomfortable Ways To Make More Money As A Freelancer

Posted February 24, 2008 in Productivity 43 Rockin' Comments »

If you really want to make a lot more money as a freelancer, you don’t have to drive yourself crazy working an enormous number of extra hours. Nor do you have to struggle to bag an A-list client who is willing to pay the rates you’ve dreamed of charging.
No, if you want to make [...]

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Christine O’Kelly, I’m Talking To You!

Posted February 15, 2008 in Business 10 Rockin' Comments »

Christine, I have a confession to make. I got a copy of your eBook (How I Built a Profitable Freelance Business for Under $50 … And How You Can Too!) and read it through it. I thought it was great, even though I wasn’t technically a freelancer - I just wanted to [...]

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