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7 Questions to Help You Build Your Ideal Freelance Business in 2013

One big benefit of freelancing is the control it gives you over all aspects of your life, from the projects you do every day to how you schedule your personal time. But, as I’ve learned in five years of freelancing, … Continue reading

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Get More Word-of-Mouth Referrals

Research shows that word-of-mouth referrals are the most trusted form of marketing, yet many freelancers don’t make the most of them. One reason is that we tend to leave them to chance, simply hoping that our best customers will rave about … Continue reading

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Will 2013 Be the Year You Make the Break?

If your early New Year’s resolution is to quit a miserable job you hate, now may be the right time to make a move. Demand for freelancers seems to be percolating. According to the Global Business Survey by the talent … Continue reading

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How to Hire a Freelancer

While I was at the playground with my kids recently, a local dad mentioned he was looking for a freelance writer. He’d hired someone to write marketing copy for his business and thought he might need to bring in a … Continue reading

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Why You Need to “Brand” Yourself

One of the most exciting parts of freelancing, when I first got started, was branching out from writing for the national business magazine where I worked for eight years to contributing to titles like Good Housekeeping and Marie Claire. I … Continue reading

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Are You Working in Your Dream Job?

Although I love being a freelance writer, it’s not often that I feel like others covet my job, with all of its unpredictability and unsteady paychecks. So I was a little surprised by the results of LinkedIn’s recent survey of … Continue reading

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Focusing On These Four Moments Helps Win Assignments

Being a freelancer involves a fair amount of rejection. Even after you identify a few good target markets for yourself and develop some solid story ideas, you’ll have to send out something on the order of 10 pitches for every … Continue reading

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What’s Your Escape Hatch from Disaster?

Hurricane Sandy gave me an unwanted crash course in the importance of having a disaster plan for a home-based business. Although we live in a part of New Jersey that got slammed, my family was lucky and only experienced a … Continue reading

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What Web Traffic Means To A Freelancer

Susannah Breslin is writing 30 days of freelancing on Forbes. Today, she wrote about the sense of failure that freelancers have – and uses her low-traffic blog on Forbes as an example. Sorry, but thinking about failure is a waste … Continue reading

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How to Win Retainer Clients

At a certain point in building a freelance or consulting business, you may find that you’re doing more and more work for a few important clients. Eventually, one or more of them will realize it makes sense to offer you … Continue reading

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