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Freelancers usually operate solo, but sometimes it’s a good idea for us to enter into partnerships. As a one-person team, there are only so many clients you can serve, and so many skills you can deliver. A partnership can be…

Are you one of those people who always get the Monday Blues? Do you have to drag yourself out of bed? Do you feel sluggish and unmotivated all day Monday? And does every thing seem to go wrong on this…

Fortune 500 companies, non-profits and other “serious” businesses have them. Should your freelancing business have one too? A vision, that is. A vision is simply a statement (several paragraphs, actually) of where you’d like your business to be in the…

Everyone will be writing posts about New Year’s resolutions, so how about one with un-resolutions? That is, instead of talking about what you should be doing, how about we talk about what you ought to stop doing instead? As…

Have you ever gotten desperate for clients? Maybe you don’t know how you’re going to pay next month’s rent. Maybe your car broke down and repairs will cost more than you have right now. Maybe a tree fell into your…

The holidays are upon us once again. Believe it or not, one of my favorite things about this time of the year is finding the perfect gifts for everyone on my list. If you have freelance writers on your gift…

As the nights grow longer and temperatures fall, let us remember that this is the time of year when many freelancers succumb to cabin fever. Cabin fever isn’t a disease. It is more a malady of the spirit characterized by…

Freelancers are used to being the outsourcees, but should freelancers themselves also outsource? My answer is a resounding “Yes!” Nobody can possibly do everything well. No matter how talented or hard-working you are, some skills are simply out of your…

Before you become a full-time freelancer, you tend to have a romanticized view of freelancing. You imagine waking up at any time of the day, working blissfully in your pajamas, pumping iron at the gym in the middle of the…

Conferencing can be a great tool for freelancers. You can get on a conference call with a prospect to walk them through a proposal. (Whenever I do this, the prospect gets excited to work with me). You can also use…

You may have heard this before: The fastest and easiest way to get work is with your former clients. Makes sense. Assuming you’ve done your work well, your former clients already know and trust you. They no longer need to…

Freelancing sounds like an ideal “career,” one where you can earn six figures a year and never get out of your pajamas. That’s almost accurate–almost. Let’s not gloss over the fact that freelancing is not a get-rich-quick scheme (far from…

An iPhone is not just a device for making phone calls, texting, or listening to music. It isn’t just for all that and social networking on the go. With the right apps, an iPhone is a lean, mean writing machine.…

What freelancer couldn’t use more energy nowadays? I know I sure could! Imagine what you could do if you had just 50% more energy than you do now. That could mean getting 50% more work done in the same amount…

It has come to this. No freelancer today can ignore social media (click here for a definition of social media). In fact, if you find your clients through offline marketing or advertising only, you may find yourself soon left behind…

One of the first things I learned as a freelancer was the importance of mindset. I study successful people and I’ve noticed a few things. Many of them are talented, but some of them are average, at best. Neither do…

Early this week, my Twitter and Facebook streams were filled with offers for invites to Google+. What? Yet another social networking platform to take up my time and attention? But it’s from Google–therefore, you can’t lightly brush it off as…

Believe it or not, some people are still debating whether the iPad (and tablets like it) is merely a gadget for entertainment, or if it will or already has changed the way we work. I don’t want to get into…