Successful freelancers sell.
While there are any number of things that will kill a freelance business, the inability to convince anyone to hire your services is right up toward the top.
Yet, somehow, many freelancers are intimidated by the idea of the sale. Why all this trepidation? Maybe you see your competitors, for example, charging atrociously low [...]
How many times have you lost clients because you could not offer that one extra service they were looking for? Do you know your strengths and weaknesses? If you are an active freelancer you probably have a pretty good idea.
But with the economy circling the drain most of us can’t afford to expand our small [...]
In today’s society, where image is everything, it’s definitely easy to get carried away and end up thinking that a popular product or service is automatically better as well. Let’s try to look beyond the surface and ask ourselves if popularity should really be an important factor which needs to be taken into consideration when [...]
Freelancers are always on the lookout for new opportunities, and we know that the right friends/contacts do make a huge difference. There is a lot of free information online, but when comes the time to find like-minded people, some don’t know where to start, where to go to find those like-minded people. People that have [...]
We all know how important it is to keep track of everything, especially when we’re talking “money“, cause you do wanna get paid.
So, here is a list of 14 web-based invoicing tools. No downloads required, you can access your account(s) wherever you may be in the world, making it really easy to manage your invoices [...]
I have a feeling many of you freelancers and entrepreneurs will like this. Scot from Meridian Crest sent me an invite for a new service called 8apps, they’re in beta right now, but it looks really promising.
I’ve been playing around with 8apps for a couple of days now, and thought I could write about it. [...]
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