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Professional Associations: An Easy Way to Get More Freelance Work

Professional associations are where you’ll find people working for the clients you want to work with, and freelance colleagues who can give you referrals to other clients. They’re an easy way to get more freelance…


Recent Posts

6 Ways to Overcome Failure and Achieve Freelance Success

Many successful people were failures before they succeeded. And failure is an opportunity to try again. Here are 6 ways to turn failure into freelance success.

Does failure mean you’re not smart enough or don’t have what…


3 Easy Ways to Get More Freelance Work this Summer

Get more freelance work and build stronger relationships with clients this summer.  Here are 3 ways to do this.

Summer vacations are an untapped opportunity to get more freelance work. When freelancers, and employees at client organizations, go…


This Is What Happened When One Freelancer Tried Social Selling

Does social selling on LinkedIn work for freelancers?After hearing and reading about social selling on LinkedIn for years, and taking a webinar by Wall Street Journal best-selling author Josh Turner, I decided to give…


6 Tips for When You Need More Luck as a Freelancer

luckAre you lucky enough?

Successful freelancer Lindy Alexander and research on luck show that we have more control over our own luck than most of us we think we do. Learn how Lindy created her…


11 Steps to a Remarkable E-Newsletter that Impresses Clients

remarkable e-newsletter

Want an easy way to get better clients?

An e-newsletter helps you get top-of-mind awareness for your freelance business. And top-of-mind awareness means that clients will think of you first when they…


Ambivert: The Little-Known Personality You Need to Know About

Many freelancers are ambiverts, not introverts.I used to be an introvert. When I was a kid, I was so shy that I would hide behind my mom when people came to visit us—even people who I…


Do You Feel Like an Imposter? Here’s the Cure

If you feel like a fraud, and worry that soon everyone will know that you’re not good enough, you’re in good company. John Steinbeck, Jodie Foster, Sheryl Sandberg, Tom Hanks—and many freelancers—have all felt like…


4 Ways to Become a More Positive Thinker

Positive thinking helps you get better freelance clients and deal with challenges. It also leads to better health and more happiness. 

“Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know,” says H. Jackson Brown, Jr. in Life’s Little Instruction Book,…