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Breaking Free: A Freelancer’s Guide to Firing Bad Clients

firing bad clientsBad clients drain your time, energy, and enthusiasm—leaving you frustrated and underpaid. Great clients help you build a stable, successful freelance business. While firing bad clients can be scary, doing this gives you time…


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Choosing the Right Freelance Specialty: What You Need to Know

choosing your specialty

Build your freelance business faster and with less work by choosing a specialty where clients need lots of freelance help. Assess market demand and then consider how your skills, interests, background, and experience fit…


Why You Should Ditch Freelance Job Sites and Find Your Own Clients

Fierce competition for every job and low pay on freelance job sites hold you back from getting the clients you deserve.  Here’s a better way to build a stable, successful freelance business.


Using freelance job sites like…


Balance Client Work and Marketing Without Burning Out

you can balance marketing and client workIt’s hard to balance client work and marketing. Yet, if you don’t make time for marketing, you’ll also struggle to get the clients you…


Save Money by Investing in Expert Help

Investing in expert help may seem like a luxury when you’re trying to build or sustain your freelance business but this will actually save you money in the long term. Experts can help you get clients, manage…


How Expert Help Will Fuel Your Freelance Success

expert helpGetting help from experts who’ve been in your shoes makes it much easier to build and sustain a successful freelance business. You’ll be able to build your business faster, without learning by trial and error, and…


Top Benefits of Membership Communities for Freelance Medical Writers and Editors

Being part of membership communities gives you a sense of belonging and support, and helps you deal with challenges and grow your freelance business. Here’s how 4 freelancers benefit from being part of 3 membership communities for…


How Kathy Turned Fear to Fun and Grew Her Freelance Business

Kathy Adamson, DVM, dreamt about starting a freelance medical writing business. But her fear of marketing was holding her back. After Kathy learned that effective marketing wasn’t pushy, her confidence and her business grew.

After eight…


How to Create Spec Samples to Attract Your Ideal Clients

 

Showing clients what you can do when you have little or no experience may seem impossible. But there’s an easy way to do this: Spec samples. And when you create spec samples, you…