Everytime you get a new client you probably want to prove him or her you can do the job, you want repeat business. And if you don’t have that feeling you’ll get business from a client again in the future, then there are some things you may need to work on.
#1- Be Committed
Being committed doesn’t [...]
If you work as a freelancer difficult clients are as common as stars in a cloudless night. Okay, you shouldn’t take my poetic analogy too literally, but still once in a while you end up working for a client who you wish didn’t exist in the scheme of the universe.
But the sad reality is [...]
Dark moods of freelancing have got nothing to do with the times your work isn’t going great or when you don’t turn in even a single project on time.
You might be getting ten business inquiries per day (which for most, if not all, of us is a lot) and traffic to your website may be [...]
Do you often feel that you are doing everything under the sun but the actual work? You know, the activity that gets you money? Distractions can be a big problem when you work on your own: although you have deadlines and commitments there is nobody breathing down your neck to see what you are actually [...]
You’ve heard it before: “It’s not you: It’s me.” Or perhaps you heard nothing at all, and the regular stream of customers who were once hot for you has slowed to a trickle.
But the truth of the matter that it is you, and unless you take immediate action to rekindle the flames, your customers [...]
Today is Blog Action Day, and I’m thrilled Freelance Folder is one of the 15,500 participating blogs (reaching over 12.5 million readers)!
There’s been a lot of talk about this in the “blogosphere” lately, and for good reasons. We’re all in this together, we all live on the same Earth. And it’s the only one we [...]
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