Freelancing

Most jobs pay by the hour and it makes complete sense. You wouldn’t pay a programmer depending on how many lines of code they write or a manager on how many calls they make. However, when it comes to freelance…

As a freelance writer, your income will almost never come from only one source. Successful freelancers juggle several clients, projects, and payment schedules; or at least they need to if they want to stay in the game over the long…

Getting paid for your work as a freelance writer is hard enough, never mind discussing terms you’re happy with. In a lot of cases, clients will want to pay you on their own schedule, so it’s important to understand what…

One of the challenges of being a freelancer is there’s no middleman between you and clients. That means not only do you have to deliver your best work at all times, but you also have to manage expectations while you’re…

When your work involves writing, there’s a lot of pressure to keep up a high output. You’re supposed to write for hours every day, every week on end, which is enough to burn anyone out. Then it happens – writer’s…

For as long as there have been books, there have been ghostwriters. The gist of it is, you pay someone else to write for you and publish their work under your name. If you’re a freelance writer, you’ll run into…

There are Slack communities for almost every topic you can imagine and freelancing is no exception. At any moment, you can hop in and start talking with digital nomads, work from home moms, freelance bloggers, and any other group that…

Pitching clients is an essential skill for a successful freelance writer. However, once you have a potential client on the hook, you still need to reel him in. That is to say, convince him or her you’re the perfect person…

There’s an uncomfortable truth people don’t often talk about when it comes to freelance writing. It’s that not a whole lot of people manage to make a career out of it. In most cases, writing is something they do on…

If you’re thinking of getting into freelance writing, you’ve probably already heard the same piece of advice hundreds of times, and that is to get a portfolio ready to go. That’s fantastic advice, but you need much more than a…