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Marketing Your Freelance Business Locally

 

The time has come when Lorna and I are starting to outgrow our web-based-only work. Don’t get me wrong, I feel that a company/individual freelancer can be perfectly able to keep business running through internet-only means. With the right combination of bidding on freelancing venues, using online marketing, and developing a knock-out website, there is […]

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Freelance Advice from the Blogosphere, Part 3

 

Welcome to Friday: The Gateway to the Weekend.  Unless you work from home, of course.  Then it’s probably more the The Gateway to More Work.    Hey, it’s all part of being able to set your own hours, right?  Since we have arrived safely at Friday, Tamara and I would like to continue […]

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Freelance Success: Josh Smith at Acid Tongue: Design and Photography

 

One of the things that Tamara and I would like to do with this blog is to introduce the readers to real people who are out there freelancing. Not only do we find it inspiring to see that other folks are being successful in their freelancing endeavors, but we also want to pick their […]

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Finding Your Niche

 

Yesterday, I discussed how important it is for freelancers to find a specialty or niche in order to better their chances of making a good living. While I would love to have an absolute answer to the question of how to find a niche (especially a profitable one), I’m afraid that I don’t. Because Lorna […]

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Do You Need a Niche?

 

Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic series, has this advice for people looking to be truly successful in this world:
If you want an average successful life, it doesn’t take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school, and apply for jobs you might like. But if you want something extraordinary, you […]

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Guru.com

 

Throughout this week, we’ve been looking at how and why Tamara and I have used Guru.com to jump start our freelance business.  To read the whole three-part series, you might want to check out Finding Those First Few Freelance Clients and Using Guru.com for Your Freelance Business. 

The Good 

If it wasn’t for Guru.com, I suspect […]

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