How much of your time do you spend sending outbound emails? How much time and effort do you put into every pitch, hoping that a client will select you over...

Freelance marketers have one of the best jobs on the planet. There’s a never-ending stream of exciting new projects to work on and clients to work with,...

Numbers can tell a story. As of December 2011, Facebook had 845 million monthly active users. As of September 2011, Twitter had 100 million active users....

Launching into a career as a freelance editor is relatively easy. Unlike our web and graphic design colleagues, editors can start working on their own...

A powerful way to build trust and rapport is to develop authoritative and informative white papers. Learn what a white paper is, several techniques for...

Every freelancer should have an online portfolio. You've got one, right? If not, skip to the last paragraph of this post. It's written for you. If you do...

If you have more than one freelance specialty, one strategy is to dedicate a separate site (blog) to each specialty, develop strong targeted brands, and grow...

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...

And How a Little Experiment Turned into a Multi-Million Dollar Enterprise Sure, pushing papers for the Big Boss mortifies us. But every freelancer knows...

Let's face it, being a freelance designer is just plain tough. In what other arena is one person responsible for answering the phones, balancing the books,...

What do you hate most about freelancing? I expect right up there will be either sales or not having enough work. Cold-calling, pitching, struggling to pay...