[caption id="attachment_10642" align="aligncenter" width="550" caption="Credit: by joshjanssen/flickr"][/caption] Part 1: Why the Rush? Something about...

Why would a freelancer want to establish herself as a thought leader in her industry or client niche? Well even for the most bashful of us, the day often...

When you’re a traditional freelancer, you’re always constrained by your individual capacity to produce work. In fact, after talent, knowledge and...

One of the ways that many freelancers get new clients is simply by asking. And one of the ways to do that is to email companies and offer your...

A lot of your success as a freelancer will depend on your persistence. It takes many forms – your persistence in learning and improving your skills, the...

As a freelancer, it's important to focus as much of your time as possible on the work you have or getting the work you need. And that means minimizing...

What would happen if tomorrow I forced you to double your rate? If you bill hourly, your rate just doubled. If you bid by the project, you have to bid...

Since the advent of the Internet as a wide-open information conduit there has been a lot of worry amongst legislators, media corporations, and others with a...

Starting out as a freelancer? Having a reference manual on your bookshelf will make the process much easier. There are great resources — both books and...

Sometimes a project can go wrong in a big way: a website can go down at the worst possible moment, a brochure can get printed with the wrong information, or...

Remember when you graduated from school or first decided to become a freelancer?  You likely didn't have much work to show and had to scramble to fill your...

Freelance businesses can have small beginnings. I found our recent poll on "Where Are You Taking Your Business" interesting. It was educational to see where...