• Freelance Folder: Still looking for clients? Laura shares her five simple tactics for finding clients. As a matter of fact, they are so simple we forget to use them.
• Freelance Switch: One of the biggest fears in raising your freelance rates is the loss of business or backlash from your clients. You’ll learn how to avoid these outcomes and be convinced it’s an absolute necessity after reading this article.
• Freelance Switch: Freelancers have to do their own marketing and eventually learn it to a degree. It might be worth consideration, though, to hire a marketing expert to drum more higher profile clients. Here’s a guide to beginning to work with one.
• CNN: Has an inspiring article on Ruben Gonzales, a 47 year old luger who was the first person to complete in four Olympics in four different decades. “My strength is not athleticism, it’s perseverance, so I thought I’ve got to find a sport with a lot of broken bones, a lot of crashes. Maybe there will be a lot of quitters and I just won’t quit — and that’s why I picked the luge” Some parallels can for sure be drawn to freelancing here.
• Dumb Little Man: I took close to a two week break from this blog and conveniently found this article helpful in getting back to my routine. It works too!
• Zen Habits: I’m one to be extremely dependant on Google but Leo brings up a good point about this dependancy: “But if it’s also in our email, calendars, maps, search, and basically everything we do every day, then there’s no hiding from it. I’m not convinced that using amazing software is worth giving a corporation complete access to my life and my attention.” Maybe it’s time to break our dependance on Google.
• Bit Rebels: Has ten great techniques to get your tweets noticed… all in a good way.
• Copyblogger: This article has a great test to see if you are ready to go places with your blog.
• Insic Designs: And if you are looking for an exhaustive list of tips to become a better blogger, look no further.
• ProBlogger: And, lastly, if you have blogger burnout, take a tip or two on what other pro bloggers have done to combat this.

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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