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• 3/10/2010 - Some Tax Help For All You (U.S.) Freelancers
  

  For those freelancers in the States, there’s a little over a month left to go search out those receipts and get your tax returns filed on time. Plenty of time but, if you have been freelancing a while, you then know that the sooner done, the better.

• 3/8/2010 - Top Ten Reasons For Freelancers To Return To Their Old Job
  

  At some point or another, freelancers contemplate going back to the jobs they left, having missed the security of steady paychecks. Did you know there are other reasons, you may not have heard of, for making a beeline to that now coveted job? Yep,these are true.

• 3/1/2010 - 7 Things You Can Do Today To Be A Better Freelancer
  

  Every freelancer could use a tip or two to become a little better in their careers. I know this isn’t the only list out there but I compiled my own of seven tips that have really helped me out personally and wished I learned a lot earlier. Oh well, live and learn.
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• 2/26/2010 - Scarcity: Fucking With The Minds of Freelancers
  

  What doesn’t come to mind so obviously is a concept that freelancers take for granted each and every day. A concept that induces negative attitudes and actions that can, consequently, have negative results on a freelance career. That is, scarcity.

• 2/19/2010 - The Week In Freelance: February 19th
  

  I think I saw a sign of spring in the air today! Yep, rain, so indoors bringing you the week in freelancing news for February 19th.

• 2/18/2010 - I Can’t Write and So Can You
  

  After visiting these sites, I began to notice that many of them were referring to this as a “writer’s” blog. Don’t get me wrong; I don’t mind the label but it left me with a big “Whoa! What just happened?”

• 2/12/2010 - Top Ten Freelancing Crimes (You Probably Are Guilty Of)
  

  We like to think of freelancers as independent, honest and hard working individuals. Yeah right… we join the rest of society by committing our own crimes as well. In fact, here are the top crimes that even you (yes you) probably are guilty of…

• 2/8/2010 - Wordpress Tips You Really Should Know, Part II: Speeding Up Your Blog
  

  Wordpress, as good as a software it is, has one definite drawback: it can be slow to load. Maybe your readers will wait the extra seconds for pages to load on your blog but, if you can save them the extra seconds, wouldn’t they appreciate it more?

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