• Entrepreneur: Has five excellent tips on treating freelancing like a real business (which of course it is). One point I haven’t given much thought to, but should, “Yes, a website is a must and Twitter is a fantastic schmoozing tool [...] But if you can’t list 75 people in your industry you know well enough to invite to coffee–freelancers and staffers alike–you’re missing a critical component of small business marketing.”
• Fast Company: For U.S. freelancers, there is one HUGE disadvantage of freelancing and especially making the jump to it: providing your own health care coverage. Some tales of health insurance for freelancers do not help the cause at all. You can, however, do your part to advocate for better health care coverage for freelancers [Freelance Switch].
• Freelance Switch: One great quote that everyone should listen to: “There is almost never a perfect time to do anything. It will rain on your wedding day, your website won’t be perfect, or your teeth might not be perfectly loose. That won’t matter to you though. You have your goal. You know what’s driving you to find success. You’ll find that success by looking for the least inopportune moment. That’s just another way of saying to find the best possible moment while giving yourself room to make a few mistakes.” Read on for 5 steps to freelancing success.
• ReviewPLS.com: Determining your project pricing is a very inexact science. Sure, you may have your hourly and go by that but, a lot of times, other factors come into play such as the employer’s budget, how bad you need the work, etc. Freelancing your price quotes can take a lot of the guess work out of it.
• Pro Blogger: Here’s a novel idea… if you run into blogger’s block, blog like a cartoonist.
• Consumerism Commentary: If you’re a new blogger, put up dozens of Adsense ads all over your website and are waiting for the loot to roll in, then you may want to read this article on some expectations you might really want to have.
• Pro Blogger: … Then you may want to read the real factors that generate traffic to your blog. Hint, it’s not the Adsense.
• Social Fish: If you’re now still serious about blogging, here’s a handy slideshow to bookmark on the 11 must-do’s for the serious blogger. The tips are spot on.
• Web Worker Daily: Here’s proof that the world won’t disintegrate around you if you happen to take one off from Twitter.

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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