• ReadWrite: Something all freelancers can use… a nice list of legal resources at your disposal. Note that these are primarily geared for U.S. businesses. If you know some other good legal resources outside of the States, feel free to let me know in a comment below.
• Freelance Switch: Has advice for new freelancers as a list of quotes from other seasoned vets. My favorite: “Make sure you are marketing your business every week, even when you are swamped.”
• Freelance Switch: How do you do your bookkeeping, or do you scramble to know if you are are in the red or not? Mary Shaw offers excellent advice… use Outright which is free and simplifies your bookkeeping.
• Freelance Switch: Has 7 elements of a successful website for freelancers. One thing you don’t see on most: post your approximate prices for your services.
• Freelance Folder: Brings up a good point when it comes to client-freelancer relationships: “Freelancers are often handicapped when it comes to creating good client relations. Many of us do most of our work from home. We rarely see our clients face to face and most of our communications are through e-mail. We hope that our clients are happy, but we never have the opportunity to see the expression on their faces or read their body language or hear their tone of voice.” Read on for ways to overcome this.
• Entreprenuer: Has 5 really good business tips for freelancers that you really should be doing anyway. Personally, it’s taken me years to learn these the hard way.
• Psychotactics: Many freelancers have their pet projects to hopefully garner some recognition and fill up the piggy bank. How often do we fail to follow through on them though? Sometimes they even, reluctantly, get scrapped. Sticking to the 70% principle may just keep that project alive and get it done in the near future.
• ProBlogger: While we’re on pet projects, have a read on the reasons that are holding you back from completing them. Lesson: simple, just get it done.
• The New Man: Think your path to freelancing was a rocky one? Have a listen to this (absolutely funny) podcast interview with Esquire writer, Chris Jones, interview with Esquire writer, Chris Jones, and his homeless stint in Arizona.
• Tremendous News: Looking for more Twitter followers? How about seven ways that no one will ever tell you about (cough… laugh).

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