I’ve been referred to as a “machine.” But what happens to the freelancing and the home business when the machine breaks down? I’ve struggled the last few months. Motivation has been a serious issue. For the most part, I’ve managed to get most of my freelancing work done. But the last few days have been …
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Inflation is a fact of life. At some point, you might need to raise your rates as a freelancer in order to meet your goals. Over time, as you gain more experience, it makes sense to consider raising your rates. Few clients expect you to keep your rates the same forever. As inflation sends prices …
You need to carefully consider your freelance web design rates. Here are a few helpful tips. While I’m not the most experienced web designer (I actually did one paid web design job, long, long ago), I have some web designer friends. And we sometimes talk about how we set freelance rates. I’ve noticed that a …
Setting rates as a freelance graphic designer can be tricky. For some projects, it can be difficult to know how much time it will take. Once, not too long after I finished my journalism degree, I was asked to design a logo. I had taken a graphic design class, and a Flash class, and I …
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Are you doing research for your freelance gig? Here are some considerations as you set your rates. Among the jobs you can do as a freelance professional is research. Freelance research involves finding information about a particular topic and then organizing it in a way that’s useful for clients. Often, freelance research goes hand in …
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One of the interesting questions I was asked at FinCon was what I disliked about freelance writing. It made me think. To some of the people I talked to at FinCon this year, I might have come across as whiny. And, indeed, my closest blogging friends know that sometimes I have a few complaints about …
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