February 2012
30 posts
How to Deal with Freelancing Change →
10 More Reasons Why Freelancing Is Not for You →
The Counter-Intuitive Benefits of Small Time... →
What Do I Do When My Client Will Not Pay Up? →
Discovering and Focusing on High Leverage Business... →
5 Easy Tips to Increase Your Bottom Line →
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Two Weeks to More Client Leads →
7 Ways to Ask for Testimonials →
Leaving the Referral Altar Behind →
Do Freelancers Put Work Before Health? →
Getting Started with White Paper Marketing →
The Importance of Showing Year-Round Gratitude →
The Balancing Act of Working Two Jobs: Case Study →
Hack Your Productivity: A Time-Management Geek's... →
Tools for Freelancers: Dropbox
I remember having to big problems early on when I became a freelancer: keeping my files in sync between two computers, and backing up my files. And believe it or not, I had this convoluted system of backing up monthly “by hand” to an external drive (of course, I never forgot, right?) and copying revised project files to a USB thumb drive and physically moving them.
Ugh.
Then I found...
How to Use Great Testimonials, Once You Get Them →
What to Do About All that Stuff →
The Art of Non-Conformity » How to Conduct Your... →
10 Things I No Longer Need for Freelance Success →
How Freelance Interning Can Help Your Business →
Simplify Your New Year's Resolution Process:... →
Tools for Freelancers: TextExpander
If you do any amount of writing as a freelancer, and find yourself writing some phrases or special words over and over again, you need to check out TextExpander. This app (for the Mac) allows you to set special keywords that expand into longer blocks of text, and honestly pays for itself in time saved.
Example: I send clients a payment link to a generic PayPal page when I send them invoices....
6 Big Lessons I Learned from My First Job After... →
8 Metrics Every Freelancer Should Measure at the... →
Are You a Natural at Social Media Marketing? →
Is There Ever a Graceful Way to Ask Clients About... →
How to Find the Right Freelancer for the Job →
Proofreading – An Essential Skill for ALL... →
Timely Tax Deduction Tips for Freelancers →