• All Freelance Writing: If you’ve been finding work through Elance, then you may be aware of the Work View they rolled out which documents your hours spent working by recording progressive screenshots of your computer. While it may be nice, in theory, to prevent disputes over your actual hours worked, aren’t freelancers subjecting themselves to having a boss look over their shoulders at all times?
• Onextrapixel: If you’re thinking about freelancing in web design, here’s a nice crash course to get you started.
• Freelance Folder: Although I’ve used freelance job boards, such as Elance and Guru, I’ve grown away from these since it is becoming increasingly difficult to find jobs that pay a fair wage. There are other options which may net you a fair wage, while actually being easier to find work than those job boards.
• DesignM.ag: Has 11 ways you can put some extra money in your pocket as a freelancer.
• Smashing Magazine: For you web developers, you may eventually brush upon clients who refuse to pay. Read up on these great tips for dealing with them (and learn all about the “kill switch”).
• Smashing Magazine: Not a programmer, but need to use PHP on your website. Here’s a little info to help make you (somewhat) dangerous.
• Get Elastic: If you develop shopping carts on websites, knowing what makes users abandon their cart purchases might change your whole approach.
• Bit Rebels: Want thousands of followers on Twitter? And do you want those followers to care what actually have to say? Take a cue from some of the heavy hitters on Twitter.
• Web Distortion: If you want to have a successful blog, sure, write great posts. It helps to understand, though, how successful blogs operate since there is more to it than that.
• Copyblogger: Of course, if you’re still a blogcrastinator, that could be holding you back too.

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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