• John Haydon: Have you ever had those moments where it was absolutely clear the goals you want to set out, especially as a freelancer? Then one day, poof, you forgot about them. It’s time to reboot your Big Why.
• Freelance Folder: In freelancing you will make many mistakes. The beauty is we all make them and, really, the best way to learn is to keep putting your hand on the hot stove. Here are four mistakes you can learn now so you can at least get these out of the way.
• Freelance Folder: I’ll admit, I never was into project management software until I realized it can save you a lot of time and keep you organized. You might want to try out one of these five which are free or low cost.
• Webitect: Has ten things you don’t know about scoring web design clients. One surprise: “Job boards are not the place to look.”
• Freelance Writing Jobs Network: Deb has 85 hacks to help your freelance writing career. These can definitely apply to other freelancers as well.
• Webdesigner Depot: A great how-to on branding yourself and your freelance business.
• Web Worker Daily: As a freelancer, you have to protect your work equipment against loss or theft. Think for a second, what would happen if your laptop and all the work inside it all of a sudden is in the hands of some dork who bought it for $100? Now read these three ways you can protect yourself.
• Web Worker Daily: Lessons learned from someone who has worked over the internet for over 20 years. One of them that I can’t stress enought myself: “Back up obsessively, like your life depends on it.”
• Freelance Shack: 12 Things which kill your creativity. Learn to break them.
• Wisebread: While your killing what kills your creativity, feed yourself with 59 ways to get a bright idea.
• Junta42: Do you have a blog with no one visiting it? Don’t worry, keep writing, be patient and visitors will come. It also won’t hurt to have a look at how you can get more people to visit your website.
• Copyblogger: It also won’t hurt to read how you can get your visitors to read every word in your posts.
• The Simple Dollar: If you are blogging for the dollars you think you will get out of it, though, read how Trent Hamm from The Simple Dollar first started blogging and earns money from it. It’s not as easy as you think.
• If you are a freelance programmer or get this joke:
  There are 10 types of people in this world.
  Those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
  Then read on for more.

More on the author, Johnny Spence
Johnny is the founder of The Freelance Rant and a freelance web programmer with 8 years in the business. Have a visit at his company Oscarrr!web or see what he's up to on Twitter.

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