When should you avoid a potential client for your freelancing services? This post gives some warning signals, as well as advice for freelancers to protect themselves from bad clients, and what to do when a client is dissatisfied.
When should you avoid a potential client for your freelancing services? This post gives some warning signals, as well as advice for freelancers to protect themselves from bad clients, and what to do when a client is dissatisfied.
This month's challenge takes some work. But once you've done it, your daily freelancing life will be much easier. The Savvy Freelancer's challenge this month is: Make templates for all your communication Why You Need Templates Templates will simplify your life as a freelancer. Every day, you communicate with prospects, ...
I have a client who, in many respects is an ideal client. Not only is she a successful entrepreneur who can afford to pay me, but she's also a kind and generous person. She refers prospective clients to me all the time, and gives me advice on growing my online business for passive income.
In the nearly two years that I've been freelancing, I have prepared and submitted close to a hundred project proposals. Not all of those proposals successfully led to paid projects, of course. And because I'm too lazy and can't be bothered with tracking my results (as Juliet ...
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. It's happened to me twice. Disappearing Act #1 The ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
I'm a member of Lynn Terry's Elite Forum at Self-Starters Weekly Tips, where we learn all about making a living on the Internet (so don't be surprised if I up and quit this freelancing thing; that means I'm making oodles of money in my sleep through the power of the ...
With 2009 ending, I thought I'd take a few moments to review how freelancing has been these past 12 months. 2009 is when I completed a whole year of freelancing, so this review is particularly important. A Rocky ...