• Speckboy: Want some insight to the type of clients you’ll run into as a web designer? Check out these collection of horror stories, quotes, and articles about “those” clients you are likely to run into. Trust me, you will too.
• Think Simple Now: As a freelancer, you need a strong purpose in order to succeed because, well, freelancing isn’t exactly easy. Start out with 15 questions to discovering your personal mission.
• Think Simple Now: Brings up an interesting point on The Four Hour Workday. Rather than work an X number of hours in a day and evaluating what you made per hour, instead its more productive to work and evaluate what actually gets done during that day. You may find that more work can get done when you stop associating an hourly rate with it.
• Freelance Folder: If you haven’t already jumped on the Twitter train, maybe five reasons freelancers can’t ignore Twitter are enough to convince you.
• Blogging Tune: Of course, you could already be one of those freelancers who has their social media bases covered. If you blog, too, then you’ll appreciate some ways to manage the online information overload that comes with it.
• TheCareerproject.org: I happened to have stumbled upon (pun intended) a database where you can view profiles of thousands of professionals in a wide variety of fields (no subscriptions or fees). Some of the information you can view are yearly income, work environment, how they got their jobs and their backgrounds before getting the jobs… just for starters.
• Freelance Shack: Usually the reason freelancers are afraid to raise their rates is because they are afraid they will lose clients (and even business) in the process. If you do the math, though, you will be convinced that raising rates would be a good decision.
• Smashing Magazine: Some helpful do’s and don’ts of creating contracts with clients.
• Zen Habits: You will at some point experience some drama as a freelancer: disagreements with clients, slow periods, more disagreements with clients, etc. Well, chill out and save it for your mother.

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