Get Excited About The Work You Do Again
Last week, I wrote a post on five ways you can improve yourself and your business. This week, I want to discuss the dreaded work blues. I’ll tell you a dirty secret no freelancer likes to mention: we get bored with our work. Even though we’re able to pick and choose our clients and projects we...
Read more…Deciding The Next Step In Your Freelance Business
If you’re just starting out as a freelancer, you’ll probably be so busy with just trying to keep up with the day to day activities of your business, and trying to get it off the ground. But what if you’ve been in business for awhile and have a steady stream of clients? What now? Being...
Read more…Five Easy Ways to Improve Yourself and Your Business
As an established freelancer it might be easy to stay where and how you are. You’ve got plenty of work and clients, so why do you need to change right? Unfortunately, it’s this mindset that leads to slow downtimes and possibly failure. The internet and the way we use it changes every day and if...
Read more…To Be A Better Business You Gotta Forget Your Services
Why is it that some businesses succeed and others don’t? Could it be that the business that succeeds is better at what they do than you are? Maybe, but probably not. Why is it that some businesses that do crappy work succeed more than other businesses that do better work? It’s because they’re not doing...
Read more…The Fear of Freelancing: Why You Could Be Hurting Yourself
Several months ago, I wrote up a six month plan to become a freelancer. Even though I thought that this plan was pretty rock solid I still got several commenters who mentioned they wouldn’t start freelancing. Why? Not because they loved their 9-5 jobs or because they thought the idea of running their own business was...
Read more…20 Things To Do When You’re Not Coding
There has been so much going on with my freelance for the past month that I’ve had little time to breathe. The lines between my work and personal life have blurred even more as I’ve been reading several great business books and listening to business podcasts on my downtime, as well as working on a...
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