How to Turn Struggle into Success with the Fearless Freelancer Mindset

How can the fearless freelancer mindset help you?

Having a growth mindset, grit, and resilience—the fearless freelancer mindset—will help you learn what you need to learn and do what you need to do…

1 Easy Way to Land More Freelance Work: Follow Up

Would you spend a few hours a month doing one easy thing to get more freelance work?

You should be saying Absolutely! Please tell me what it is. So I will: Just follow up with interested…

What Freelancers Ought to Know About Networking on LinkedIn in 2022

How can a strong LinkedIn network help you grow your freelance business? 

More clients and colleagues are using LinkedIn to find freelancers to hire or refer work to. And if…

6 Tips that Will Help You Succeed in Virtual Networking

Virtual networking has been the only way for freelancers to network since the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world in spring 2020.  Although virtual networking still feels strange and awkward to many of us, we need to learn…

8 Ways to Build Your Network and Achieve Freelance Success

Networking doesn’t have to be stressful.

Your network can be more important than anything else in achieving freelance success. But networking doesn’t can be scary for freelancers. Here are 8 ways to make networking…

How to Impress High-Paying Clients with Your Remarkable Home Page

Your home page can quickly convert prospects into clients—if you capture and keep their attention with a remarkable home page. But if your home page is ordinary or bad, you’ll never have a chance to win…

The Proven Way Margaret Grew her Freelance Business in a Recession

When Margaret Johnson, PhD, started freelancing in 2019, she had strong experience in medical writing. The former professor and researcher in biochemistry and structural biology got two clients. But they didn’t pay…

What Happened When 2 Digital Immigrants Embraced LinkedIn

Freelance writer Eleanor Mayfield, ELS came of age in the pre-Internet era. So did I. But both of us…

This is What Happens When Freelancers Specialize

There’s an easy way for freelancers to get high-paying freelance jobs and clients with less work and in less time: specialize. Nearly twice as many freelancers making $100 per hour or more have a specialty (or niche) compared to freelancers…

Want to Worry Less and Make More Money? Be a Specialist

If a pipe in your home bursts and water is pouring onto your floor, are you going to call a handyman or a…