Filed under Business, Commentary & Analysis, Dealing With Clients, making money, sales by FreelanceSwitch.com
Like many other freelancers, I have a hard time selling myself. It’s something I know I have to work on this year. But as a freelancer, we don’t have someone else out there selling our services for us. It’s up to us to land our own jobs.
I …
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Working in the creative field means you are an open target for criticism. Someone doesn’t like your photography work, they think you’re a bad writer, or your prices are unfair. And as freelancers, it can be hard not to take criticism—no matt…
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Reporters at The Washington Post are now actively engaging their readers by posting comments in streams on the paper’s news stories online, something they’ve never done in the past. The paper switched to a new website platform called Echo, wh…
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This week we look at Paul Boag: Get Clients to say ‘Yes!’ by Paul Boag. This weekend we’re sharing a gr…
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A recent story in The Australian caught my eye. The title of the piece is “Online magazine offers less than 2c a word to freelancers”. The name of the online magazine is Breathe Magazine Australia (BreatheMagazine.com) and it is scheduled to l…
Continue Reading "Fair Wages for Freelance Writing"Filed under Business, Commentary & Analysis, Dealing With Clients, Finding Work, making money by FreelanceSwitch.com
Was your New Year’s resolution to start your own freelancing business? We’re five weeks in—how is it going? I found this article on Freelance: UK that got me thinking about financial issues to consider before taking the big freelance leap. …
Continue Reading "Starting a Freelance Business in 2012: Planning Ahead"Filed under Dealing With Clients, full time freelancing, permalancing by FreelanceSwitch.com
Here’s the scenario: you give up your job to take up freelancing full time. First, you work in grinding drudgery for a while, until you land a sweet client who not only loves your work, but wants you to do more and more, until you find yourself…
Continue Reading "When One Client Becomes Your Job"Filed under Blog Writing, Business, Commentary & Analysis, Dealing With Clients, freelance work, making money by FreelanceSwitch.com
I had never heard of the freelance-writing online marketplace Contently until I stumbled across this piece of info from the Wall Street Journal:
Freelance-writing marketplace Contently has raised a $2 million Series A round led by Lightbank. Co-f…
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We’ve been talking a lot about engagement lately, so when I saw this post on Mashable about 10 easy customer engagement ideas I was intrigued.
Engagement with your clients doesn’t happen overnight or all at once. It is something that needs to…
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I don’t really connect to Mark Cuban (the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks). But I do connect to his business rationale: the only thing you can control in your life is your own effort.
As freelancers, we don’t have anyone but ourselv…
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It’s easy to think about doing good deeds during the holiday season, as giving (thanks and gifts) is pretty much society’s mantra from Thanksgiving to Christmas. But what about the rest of the year? Isn’t it good to be grateful in, say, Mar…
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This week we look at Dealing with Clients Who Want Discounts by leifalable. In this humorous video see how a f…
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Freelancing is all about building relationships, and the holidays are a perfect time to nurture those relationships.
Sending a holiday greeting adds a human touch to your cyber business, and keeps your name fresh in people’s minds. It’s also …
Filed under client demands, client requests, customer service, Dealing With Clients, Freelance Stories, Managing Clients, unreasonable clients by Laura Spencer
We freelancers go to great lengths to keep our clients happy. After all, we want to be known for providing…
Continue Reading "What Hoops Will You Jump Through for Your Clients?"Filed under Dealing With Clients, reports, tracking by FreelanceSwitch.com
If someone came up to your clients and asked them, “What is that freelancer doing for you?” what do you think your client will say? Will they sing your praises or scratch their heads and wonder why they hired you in the first place?
W…
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Finding customers is hard.
It’s hard for everyone, but especially for freelancers – they’ve got too much to do, not enough time in which to do it, and they’d much rather be doing what they do best than networking and prospecting for new b…
Filed under Dealing With Clients, freelancing, Pricing, Tips by Jacob Cass
Liaising with potential clients is an art, especially when it comes to money. It takes a lot of practice to be able to gauge your client’s needs & budget (or lack of) and negotiate an outcome that both the client and yourself are satisfied with. Here are two tips that I’ve found extremely useful when [...]
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