Freelance Advice From the Blogosphere, Goal Setting Edition

• I like Michele’s “My Top Ten Goals for 2008” because while none of them are easy, they are all do-able with enough hard work and persistence.

• Allena gives her suggestions for how to go about setting your goals at Writers Unbound.

• Anne at The Golden Pencil invites everyone to share their goals for 2008.

• Ah, the never-ending how-do-I-set-my-freelance-rates question never really dies, does it?  Christine over at Self Made Chick has some suggestions in “How to Get What You’re Worth.”  (She mentions goal setting in this post, too!)

• When Ritu from Freelance Folder answers the question “How Do You Put Your Ideas Into Action?” his very first suggestion is – you guessed it – to set goals.  (If there’s anyone who reads Freelance Parent that hasn’t subscribed to Freelance Folder yet, then get your booty over there and do so.  There is always something incredibly useful being posted over there!)

• Oh, and don’t forget that Tamara and I shared some of our initial goals from our business plan.  I have to admit, though, that a few of these are probably going to be revamped.

There’s a good chance that if you’re setting your 2008 goals, you’ll be writing down something about how to get more business in the upcoming year.  Here are a few freelancers with ideas you can try: 

• If you’re not reading Naomi’s Marketing School posts over at IttyBiz, then you’re really missing out.  Check out “5 Steps to Free Marketing.”  (Seriously, you’re losing money if you’re not reading this series.)

• Bootstrapper always comes out with huge lists of resources.  Some of them are pretty darn useful, like “52 Creative Ideas for Finding New Clients.”

• This is a much older post from Freelance Switch, but who doesn’t want “101 Ideas to Get More Freelance Work and Generate New Client Leads?”

• Freelance Switch also directed me to “120 Self Promotion Ideas for Graphic Designers & Freelancers (Free or Almost Free)” on Design News.

• Hey, Susan at The Urban Muse has a list sort of like this one that you might want to check out.  It’s called “5 Must-Read Marketing Articles.”   I noticed that the “101 Ideas” article is on her list, too.

• Laura from Work from Home Momma had a little something to say on the subject last month, too, with her post “Marketing Tips for WAHMs.”