Freelancing

The ‘secret’ to finding freelance work is to be persistent. You keep building up your portfolio and pitching potential clients over and over again until your schedule is full.  It’s an approach that works, but if you want to scale…

Traditionally, people don’t think of LinkedIn as a place to get hired if you’re a freelancer. However, there are so many potential employers on the platform that freelance writers can benefit from having an up-to-date profile. The way you should…

There are a lot of places where you can publish your writing online. You can set up your own blog, submit guest posts for other publications, or even use online platforms such as Medium. The advantage of that last approach…

As a freelance writer, it’s up to you to put together and submit invoices for the work you do. There’s no accounting department to take care of billing. If you forget to submit invoices, you’re not getting paid. That means…

A lot of people think about podcasts as fun ways to kill time. For me, they’re excellent opportunities to learn new skills and find out about freelance success stories. If I can learn about business strategy while I’m making lunch,…

As a freelance writer, you live and die by your portfolio. You get one shot at convincing clients you’re the right person to hire. That means without a great portfolio, you won’t be in business for very long. Besides showing…

As a freelance writer, you have a lot of options when it comes to places for finding work. In a perfect world, though, clients would come to you. If you run a successful, engaging blog, that idea isn’t out of…

The idea of the writer who can’t find inspiration is everywhere in literature and movies. Writer’s block can be a fun cliché, but it’s also something you can’t afford to indulge in when you have looming deadlines and clients to…

As a freelance writer, your goal is to get people to pay you for the content you submit. Usually, the way that works is a client has a project, you come to an agreement on price, you do the work,…

When it comes to freelance writing, you can break down jobs into two broad categories. Business to Consumer (B2C) and Business to Business (B2B). However, both types of writing require very different skill sets. As you might imagine, businesses have…