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Welcome to the Freelance Success blog, where you’ll find practical how-tos, success stories, inspiration, and much more.



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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at 3 Professional and Awesome Websites

A professional and awesome website helps freelancers get steady, high-paying clients. Here’s how three freelancers developed websites that are helping us thrive.

If you’re like many freelancers, developing a professional and awesome freelance website seems like an agonizing task. But…


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How to Win More Clients with Your Freelance Website and Do Less Marketing

When you have a professional and client-focused website, you’ll get more steady, high-paying clients with less marketing—because your freelance website will do the work for you.  So you won’t have to actively “sell yourself,” the part of…


The Innovative Way Margaret Attracts the Right Clients

Margaret Johnson’s freelance brand shows clients she’s innovative and professional. This helps her attract the clients she deserves. 

Margaret Johnson, PhD, wanted clients to see her as innovative and professional—and to stand out in a sea of freelancers. So the…


3 Useful Changes for an Awesome LinkedIn Profile

LinkedIn made three useful changes that can help you make your LinkedIn profile awesome. The changes were part of LinkedIn’s new look, designed to be simpler, more modern, and easier to use.

If you didn’t notice the LinkedIn profile changes,…


The Ultimate LinkedIn Profile for Freelance Success This Year

If you have a complete, client-focused LinkedIn profile, when clients search for freelancers you’ll rank high in search results.

Over the past few years, a LinkedIn profile has become a powerful tool in helping freelancers get steady, high-paying…


How to Get Steady, High-Paying Clients with Direct Email

Steady, high-paying clients make it easy for you to make more money with less work. And direct email helps you attract steady, high-paying clients so you can grow your freelance business.

Direct email frees you from low-paying, high-competition freelance…


How to Choose Your Clients Instead of Taking Whatever Work Comes Along

High-paying clients aren’t going to magically find you. But there is a way for you to find these clients, and then attract them.

Working with steady, high-paying clients is the easiest way to build your freelance business. But…


7 Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Start Getting the Clients You Deserve

procrastinating It’s easy to put off or postpone doing things that you know are important to freelance success—like marketing. But procrastinating only makes it harder to get the clients you deserve. Once you…


The Proven Way Margaret Grew her Freelance Business in a Recession

Margaret JohnsonWhen Margaret Johnson, PhD, started freelancing in 2019, she had strong experience. But like most new freelancers, Margaret didn’t know how to grow her freelance business and get the clients she deserved. “

The former professor and researcher in…