Freelance Success Blog
Welcome to the Freelance Success blog, where you’ll find practical how-tos, success stories, inspiration, and much more.
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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…
Recent Posts
The Easy Way to Get Bigger, Better Clients: Your Specialty
Specializing is the fastest, easiest way to get bigger, better clients in good times and in bad. If you have an in-demand specialty, you’ll stand out in a sea of freelancers. Specializing also helps you get the clients…
How to Make Marketing as Easy as Tying Your Shoes
t’s easy to use freelance jobs sites or content mills like fiverr, Upwork, or Freelancer.com. But steady, high-paying clients aren’t using these freelance jobs sites and content mills. And they’re not going to magically find you.
Instead, you have to…
Stand Out in a Sea of Freelancers: Your Brand
If you have a strong freelance brand, then you’ll stand out in a sea of freelancers. Clients will see you as providing more value and being more professional than other freelancers. And when they contact you, they’ll…
How to Be a Fearless Freelancer—in Good Times and in Bad
Even when times are good freelancing can be scary. Along with being a skilled writer or editor (or whatever your freelance field is), you need to run a business. And most freelancers never had a chance to learn how…
How to Be a Recession-Proof Freelancer
During the last recession, freelance writer Carol Tice grew her income from $60,000 a year to $100,000. “As the world crashed and burned around me, I quietly grew my freelance income 67 percent,” says Carol, a longtime freelance writer…
The Habit that Will Make You a Freelance Success
Habits make it easier for us to do the things we need to do—like marketing your freelance business. If you build the marketing habit, then marketing can become as easy as tying your shoes.
When you were…
11 Ways to Keep Anxiety at Bay and Focus on Freelancing
Freelancers have a lot to worry about these days. Some of us have already lost freelance work due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Most of us will lose a little, some, or a lot of…
Want to Make More Money? Fire Bad Clients
Firing bad clients frees you up to work with clients who will pay you well and treat you right.
When freelancer Ginny Vachon, PhD, fired her first client, she was worried about losing money. Ginny had only been freelancing for…