5 Disadvantages of the Freelancing Life Freelancing is equal parts advantages and disadvantages. You just have to decide if you are prepared to take the risk that almost always complements it. Below are the top 5 Disadvantages of the Freelancing Life. Disadvantages of the Freelancing Financial Insecurity Easily the biggest disadvantage for many people is …
Best Freelancing Tips These freelancing tips can bring you to the top-level freelancer. What Do Your Clients Really Want From You When you’re a freelancer, there’s an excellent temptation to try to be everything to everybody and to be called skilled in every area. You’ll soon come to realize, however, that not only is this …
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Learn How to Sell This is the big one. Unless you can embrace the concept that selling is a vital part of your freelance endeavors, you will fight an uphill battle. Often, your selling ability will be the only way you can win a project rather than see it go to another supplier with similar …
How to Determine Hourly Rate There are essentially 2 ways in which most freelancers charge for missions. The traditional method of a “per project” fee is often referred to as a fixed price contract while charging by the hour is often referred to as time and materials. In either situation, it’s important to figure out …
Establishing Goals and Milestones All this talk of business-planning documents and SWOT analyses may be making your head spin, and you’re forgiven if you find yourself glossing over them in your rush to make a tangible start on your own business. However, I strongly advise that you take an instant to write down some easy …
Creating a SWOT The planning term SWOT 1st appeared in the Sixties. A SWOT analysis is actually simply an easy strategy coming up with a technique that helps assess projects and businesses. It’s based around a four-square grid, shown in Figure, that covers Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. I’ve used it a variety of times …
Prepare for the Transition The most exciting and thirstily anticipated section of freelancing happens, in the end, the look and that we haven’t quite reached it yet! There’s a good reason for putting the brakes on until we know exactly where we’re going a freelancer who has built a solid foundation of planning has a …
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The Skills The skills required for being a great freelancer can be broken down into four distinct areas, Technical Skills Business Skills Organizational Skills Interpersonal Skills Technical Skills For a developer, possessing technical skills means that you’re technically competent in your language or languages of choice: PHP, Ruby on Rails, Microsoft .NET, and the like. …
What is and Why Freelancing? What Is Freelancing? What is and Why Freelancing? A freelancer is defined as someone who sells his or her services to employers or clients without a long-term contract Freelancers often deal directly with their clients or possibly work as a contractor to a number of larger businesses, which then on-sell …