- Web Designer Depot: A couple weeks ago they posted 20 reasons you shouldn’t be a freelancer. If you weren’t scared off yet, here’s the follow up on overcoming those 20 reasons.
- Freelance Switch: These days freelancers can find clients without even leaving their homes. Ditching the emails and going back to the old school ways of finding new clients, though, may net you even more.
- Noupe: Has an excellent and nicely detailed article on precisely calculating the value of your web design work.
- oDesk: Web designers take note of eleven red flags that trigger the hire of a new designer.
- Freelance Folder: If you’ve been freelancing a while then you surely run into this dilemma… do you take some time off already? Best reason to do so: “what’s the point of making so much money if you never stop to enjoy it?”
- Rocket.ly: Personally, I still haven’t jumped on the Facebook train. Now I’m convinced this was a good idea after reading this.
- Personal Branding Blog: OK, so you have a Twitter account and a few regular followers you keep in touch with. Now how about taking it to the next level and set up your personal brand on Twitter.
- Copyblogger: In freelancing, you need to sell your services, salesman or not. Therefore, it helps to know how to sell without without being all pushy.
- Web Worker Daily: We need all the good habits we can get. Knowing how to create and maintain good habits may keep you from hanging out on Twitter a tad too long.
- Dumb Little Man: If your work requires creativity, then you know it is difficult to maintain it on a consistent basis. Stepping away from the computer and finding other ways to access your creativity is a start to finding it again.
- Indexed: The reality of freelance projects.
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