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The Secret to Freelance Success – Overdeliver

It’s not easy to make it as a freelancer in any field, but one proven step toward success is to keep your promises, and then go one step further–overdeliver.  Getting started  as a freelancer is the hardest part, because lack of experience is so easily equated with lack of skill.  And there’s no more important [...]

Organization is Key to Freelance Success

Working from home, setting your own hours, taking a day off without filling out paperwork or asking a boss—these are some of the most wonderful benefits of freelancing.  But these can also be some of its greatest problems.  When there’s no time-clock to punch, it’s easier to push the work aside and do it later.  [...]

How to Manage Your Clients

When you work a 9 to 5, you have the benefit of learning about your co-workers, your supervisors and your employer and coming to a certain level of understanding about their expectations of you, their likes and dislikes, their skills and their attitudes.  But when you freelance, each client starts a brand new learning experience, [...]

Freelance Work and Continuing Education

Whether you’re new to freelancing or you’ve been at it at a while, you’ll quickly discover that your field, whether it’s writing, design, programming or some other freelance endeavor, changes constantly.  What’s “hot” today might be forgotten tomorrow, and new software, techniques and knowledge keep things constantly changing and moving forward.  If you want to [...]

Are Your Prices Too Low?

Often, one of the hardest things for a freelancer to do is set a price  Especially when you’re just starting out, the tendency is to charge far too little for work to be sure to get plenty of it.  That tendency will wear off when the work starts coming in more regularly and the fear [...]

Are You Stagnating as a Freelancer?

Most people cite one of the reasons for becoming a freelancer as a sense of going nowhere in their regular jobs.  Whether it’s a job that doesn’t offer advancement, or a mindless job that doesn’t offer much of employees, a job that you’re unhappy with can make you miserable.  Freelancing seems to be the perfect [...]

Things You Need in Your Home Office

Nowadays more and more home offices are becoming popular, basically because of the increase of outsourced jobs over the internet. Thus, most of us start to work at home, since this is the place where we are most comforted. But just like the typical office, or home-based job needs equipment that would cater to our [...]

Stay Fit and Healthy While Working in a Desk Job!

The daily routine in the office can eventually lead you to stress, especially when you are loaded with tons of work which you have to finish by the end of the day. There are even times when you have to skip meals or go overtime jus to get your assignment done. This is quite a [...]

Top Job Boards for Freelance Web Designers and Developers

Are you a freelancer in search of projects? Nowadays freelance jobs are growing rapidly across the internet, so you won’t find it difficult to get one. However, while these jobs are readily available, you should also take extra caution when getting them since some of them might be a form of scam. Thus, to avoid [...]

What your image says to your clients

The style in which you present yourself at work clues your employer in on both your personality as well as your work ethic.  Unless your job requires you to wear a uniform, choosing work attire becomes more than a simple task of picking out clothes.  It is ultimately a way to make a statement. Follow [...]