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Profitable Freelancing
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Connections: The Most Valuable Asset in a Freelancer’s Business
How do you get most of your business? For me, it’s referrals. For fellow freelance writer Thursday Bram, it’s her address book. This guest post from Thursday shows how to make connections and make them work for your freelancing business. As a freelancer, my business wouldn’t bring me a lot of money if I had to sell it — except for my address book. It’s the main asset I have to work with. I have a computer, some on-going client accounts and not much else that an appraiser would even bother to put a price tag on.
Found at meryl.net
3 Key business assets every freelancer should nurture and protect.
Nothing wrong with that. But there is something wrong with ignoring the key business assets on which your future success will be built. Here are the three assets I consider essential to any freelancer who wants to grow an enduring and healthy business. #1 – Deep relationships The freelancer who completes one project and then seeks out another company for the next project is working inefficiently. Far more effective is to build deep relationships with the clients you have now, so they will continue to give you work, for months and years to come. Found at nickusborne.com
As freelancers we keep ourselves busy either doing work or looking for work.
Think like Michelangelo: A freelancer’s guide to choosing great clients.
Without the support of a patron, artists wouldn’t have had the resources to do great work. We all have to eat. And those patrons often gave pretty clear instructions regarding the topic of the art. For example, painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel wasn’t Michelangelo’s idea. The work was commissioned by Pope Julius II. In fact, Michelangelo was reluctant to take on the project. He would rather have been sculpting. But you know how it goes…what the client wants, the client gets. (Particularly when, in addition to being the Pope, you are also referred to as “Il papa terribile”.) Found at nickusborne.com
Historically, artists have always needed to find a patron. Sometimes the church, sometimes a nobleman or a merchant.
The best advice I can give any freelancer.
There is a ton of advice I can give, and have given to freelancers. But I think the best advice I can give is this: Always put aside an emergency cash fund equivalent to about two months of earnings. Why? Because there are always ups and downs in the life of a freelancer, whether you are just starting out, or have been freelancing for years. It doesn’t matter whether you are just doing OK as a freelancer, or you a superstar. You will always have an occasional month that doesn’t deliver the money you need to cover the bills. Or maybe one month you have an unexpected expense. Or maybe you are sick and can’t work. Found at nickusborne.com
The 9 Mistakes Most Writers Make That are Keeping Them Poor
Don’t make the same mistakes a million other writers have made, myself included. You deserve more; to write the future you planned to write, rather than the present that has you running in circles, chasing clients, and pushing your dreams further and further toward a drifting horizon. Writing is a phenomenal calling, where success will justify every second of struggle. Once you find a schedule that neatly balances dreams and income, everything else settles in place. I write from the comfort of my home, and most days of the week I’m lucky enough to hear the chime of my children laughing as it follows them from our garage into the living room. Found at ghostwriterdad.com
Being a freelancer means…being able to sneak out for the afternoon and take the kids for some scary rides.
To Grow or Not to Grow?
In early 2010, I made the difficult decision to leave the public sector in order to start my own writing and strategy firm, Inkwell Strategies. After serving as a speechwriter for the legislative and executive branches of government, I was ready for a new challenge. After making the decision to go out on my own, my first step was to seek advice from friends and former colleagues who had done the same. One of these associates – the presidentof a small public affairs firm – had this to say: “You’ll start out with a client or two, but if you’re successful, pretty quickly you’ll have to decide whether you want to be a freelancer or a business owner.” Many freelance writers will face this decision at somepoint in their careers. There’s no wrong answer, but there are persuasive arguments on both sides: Found at allfreelancewriting.com
The advantage of being a freelancer…you can write notes to yourself.
