Freelance Success Blog

Practical advice and inspiration, and freelance success stories!

Are You Greedy or Generous with Your Freelance Pie (Work)?

Get your share of freelance pieDo you believe that freelance work is abundant or scarce? 

Having an abundance mindset helps freelancers succeed—because there is plenty of freelance pie for…


How to Turn Struggle into Success with the Fearless Freelancer Mindset

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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…


What You Need to Know About Virtual Networking

virtual networkingFor most freelancers—including me—virtual networking is something new and strange. I’m a big fan of in-person networking. Meeting people in person at live networking events will probably always be the best way to make key contacts and begin…


What Happens When You Conquer Fear of Networking

Don't let fear of networking stop you from meeting the right people.Networking was “super-scary” for Frieda Wiley, PharmD, when she started her freelance medical writing business in 2014. Frieda knew…


Want Better Results from Networking? Build Trust

Trust is essential to freelance successGoing to networking events won’t help you get more freelance work—because these events are only the first step in building trusting relationships with the people you meet. And trust is how…


12 Ways to Make Networking Events Amazing, Not Scary

Networking eventsNetworking events like conferences and meetings are the best places to meet clients and colleagues who can help you get more freelance work and better clients. But leaving the safe cocoon of our offices to go to a…