All Topics Productivity Inspiration How To Lifestyle Marketing Dealing with the Freelancing/Experience Dilemma Posted August 23, 2012 in Getting Clients, Getting Started An old cliché asks which came first–the chicken or the egg? It’s a trick question, because there has to have been a chicken to produce the egg, but all chickens come from eggs. We freelancers face a similar trick question. Which should come first? Freelancing or experience in your field? It often seems that you can’t have one without the other. Of course, if you can go into freelancing with a lot of experience that’s great. Experience will help you to market yourself and allow you to charge more for your services. But increasingly, freelancers are starting right out of school with little or no training. Starting your freelancing career fresh out of school isn’t necessarily a bad thing. You can solve the freelancing/experience dilemma. Here are five tips to get you started freelancing without much experience. [Click Here to Read More...] 5 Real Reasons Why You Don’t Earn What You Deserve as a Freelancer Posted August 19, 2012 in How-To, Managing Clients You’ve been reading the freelancing blogs and forums. Everyone else seems to be making a good living, but you’re still really struggling. Yet, you know that you’re good at what you do. What could be the problem? In this post, I’ll examine five common reasons why freelancers don’t earn what they deserve. You may find that one of these reasons fits your situation. [Click Here to Read More...] Should You Go with Your Gut? Posted August 15, 2012 in Managing Clients Did you ever have that sinking feeling that a project you are about to start isn’t going to go right? You’ve checked the client out thoroughly and they seem legit. You’ve defined the scope of the project in detail and you understand what is required. Nothing seems to be amiss…and yet you still have that uneasy feeling that something is wrong with this project. You just can’t put your finger on the problem. Should you go ahead and accept the project anyway, despite the sinking feeling you have about it in your gut? Or should you trust your gut feeling and turn the project down? In this post, we’ll explore your options for what to do when a project seems right, but feels wrong. There are pros and cons for taking the project anyway, and we’ll look at both sides. Feel free to share your own experiences and insights at the end of the post. [Click Here to Read More...] Massive Discounts on Stock Photos

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