Month: September 2020

Friday Frank Talk: Your “Freelance” to “Business” Attitude Shift

Posted on September 25, 2020 by lwidmer

On a discussion list I belong to, I was reading through a debate over rates. Yea, that one again. One more time (does it ever change?), freelancers were debating why a writer working in a rural area should charge differently than a writer in an urban area. The debate was pretty lively, just slightly heated. […]

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Dear Freelancer: It’s Not All About You

Posted on September 18, 2020 by lwidmer

Dear Freelancer, You may not know me, but I know you. You were the one who showed up on social media with one goal in mind: to get some clients. It’s a good goal. It’s why most of us head to social media. But what happened next, well, that wasn’t so good. I saw you […]

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How Freelance Fails Can Save You

Posted on September 14, 2020 by lwidmer

Weird title to this post, right? But I read something the other day that created one of those lightbulb moments. I’ve been around this freelancing block a few decades, so if it can impact me (the eternal skeptic), I’m thinking it might do others some good, too. It was a motivational snippet that had popped […]

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3 Easy Freelance Value-Adds (that boost your earnings & reputation)

Posted on September 11, 2020 by lwidmer

When I wrote the title to this post, my finger accidentally hit the Caps button. Freelance Value-ADD is not a disorder, but man, what an appropriate Freudian slip. Why? Because we freelancers tend to have attention deficit when it comes to marketing ourselves. We jump from the tried-and-true last thing that got us hired to […]

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The Freelance Grab – A Cautionary Tale

Posted on September 9, 2020 by lwidmer

Totally different topic today, but one that some of the more established freelancers have had to deal with. Someone (a female) in my orbit is right now dealing with a grabber. The grabber in question has adjacent property to hers, and in every interaction over the last year has started with an ask. Each subsequent […]

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The Ultimate Freelance Marketing Survival Guide

Posted on September 1, 2020 by lwidmer

In my travels over these last few decades of freelancing, I’ve realized there really are two types of freelancers — Freelancers who put excuses in the way Freelancers who have more ideas than time What kind of freelancer are you? Ironically, both of these freelancers can have careers that go off the rails pretty quickly […]

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