An expo or a conference is a great way to network with other people who work in your industry, as well as a great place to reach a target market.
I co-own and edit a wedding magazine, so I’ve been…

Savvy freelance editors often have a preternatural ability to zero in on dream clients and to steer clear from troublesome ones.
Ideal clients are those that are effortless to work with, straightforward and clear, and earn you the most money…

We’ve been drowning in great and useful content this week, so we thought we’d share some of the best reads with you guys. Who knows, we might even turn this into a regular feature? What Graham Charlton has learned writing…

Update: Since publishing our original article, Brookson have corrected their misleading marketing material, and we have therefore removed our article highlighting their apparent breach of the CAP Code at the request of Crunch, our parent company, to avoid any potential conflict…

I never thought I’d have to physically learn how to relax. It’s supposed to be something which comes naturally, right? You work hard, you do some intense activity… then you relax, unwind, and recuperate. But until I left the UK,…

Shining Examples of European Comic Book Covers | You The DesignerAs mentioned in our third edition of You! Be Inspired!, May is the month that celebrates everything and anything geeky. You the Designer’s team is composed of different types of…

This year — 2012 — marks the 5th anniversary of HOW’s Creative Freelancer Conference (June 21-22 in Boston) and I’ve attended every one since HOW launched the event with co-founder Ilise Benun of Marketing Mentor and Peleg Top in 2008.…

Many people are drawn to freelancing because they feel the flexible lifestyle will give them more time to spend with their kids. With summer just around the corner, many schools are about to end their school year and freelancers with…

Often designers design stuff (products/services/interfaces etc.): to fit user personas, to solve problems, to make it beautiful etc. but don’t often consider the how it psychologically interfaces with the user. Such user experience design draws heavily from human psychological behaviors…

I’m a sucker for a good study, and a team of Asian researchers have come out with one about how your social networking sites can accurately predict your personality—something you may (or may not) want to do if you run…

In this issue of Ask FreelanceSwitch, we look at client communication and incorporation. Ask FreelanceSwitch is a regular column here that allows us to help beginners get a grip on freelancing. If you have a question about freelancing that you…

When it was revealed that Student Loans Chief Exec Ed Lester received his pay through a limited company, avoiding tens of thousands of pounds in unpaid tax in the process, there was much hand-wringing in the upper echelons of Government,…

It’s hardly breaking news that HMRC have something of a problem with customer service. They were forced into an embarrassing apology last year over the ongoing problems with their service, including monumental hold times on most of their public-facing telephone numbers. Now the…

It’s taken years. You haven’t slept in as long as you can remember, the last time you had a holiday was when you were 12 and you’ve been working for just about your entire adult life, but you’ve won the…

Have you ever been stiffed by a client? Many freelancers have—and it sucks. More often than not, the cost to take the client to court is frequently much more expensive than the unpaid invoice. So what’s a freelancer to do?…

In this day and age it’s not uncommon to hear bold statements such as “The business card is dead, it’s all about wireless vCard” or “I’ll email my contact details over after the conference”.
The truth is business cards are…

It’s the first anniversary of Bryn Mooth’s second career and she has come a long way in a short year.
As she wrote about her first year on her blog, writes4food.com, “The first year as an independent journalist and copywriter…

I was listening to the recording of The Renegade Writer’s Become a Confident Writer Teleclass and they mentioned that adage: “Editors are just people.”
Now, I know from experience that they’re lying—but I’ll get to that in a second.
First…

Networking is great way to get your name on the freelancing map – but your networking doesn’t have to be limited to just dry business events. There’s a growing movement amongst freelancers and small businesses of coming together to collaborate…