The Case of the Disappearing Prospect

Has this ever happened to you?

A prospect contacts you, you submit a proposal, the prospect says “Yes, let’s do this,” and then… they disappear.

Flick of the wrist in the blink of an eye

It’s happened to me twice.

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March 2010 Challenge: Get Off Your Butt!

Our monthly challenges are supposed to help you increase your freelancing profits immediately. This month’s challenge will not have a positive impact in your bottom line right away. However, it is very important.

By taking this month’s challenge, you will:

improve and protect your health
increase your energy
make you more productive

And it is utterly simple. [...]

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Getting Serious About Bookkeeping for Freelancers

Bookkeeping and accounting are essential parts of freelancing. Freelancers can choose from dozens of software and web-based services that make bookkeeping and accounting easy and accurate. The Unlimited Freelancer has a good list of what’s available.

In this post, I’m going to share my own journey in organizing and systematizing my bookkeeping and accounting.
A Brief History
When [...]

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When You Outgrow Clients

As your freelancing business grows, the inevitable happens: you outgrow clients.

If you’ve been following along with our Savvy Freelancing challenges, you may be going through this right now. Our January 2010 challenge was to increase your rates, so if you’ve increased your fees significantly, you may have outgrown a few clients recently.
It’s scary. You’re losing [...]

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Can You Really Find Clients on Twitter?

This post is a continuation of our series on networking. If you’re familiar with Twitter, you know that it’s a micro-blogging service, which allows you to interact with other Twitter users. Today, we’ll be looking at Twitter as a networking tool for freelancers.

In an earlier post, I already discussed the basics of using Twitter for [...]

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