Freelance Advice

Your Freelance Toolkit – Essential Tools For Project Work What do you think a freelancer needs for a successful career? Top-range gadgets? Executive furniture? A year’s supply of Post-It notes?

What Services Should A Freelancer Offer? If you’re a freelancer, you’re no doubt up against agencies and big bad conglomerates which offer a wide range of services.

The Ultimate Guide to Building A Successful Freelance Business It’s been estimated that over 1.88 million of us in the UK are currently working as freelancers. Probably more thanks to Covid.

How To Price A Project Setting your price for your services is always stressful for new freelancers. Getting it right first time puts your new career on good footing – getting it wrong means you’ll be struggling to make ends meet. Here’s a few tips to help you price your projects right. Understand your industry Firstly, identify what kind of […]

Dethroning the King: Does Your Site Have Too Much Content? ‘Content is king’, as the marketing kids say these days (or as I said back in 2013), and having a regular stream of good content is certainly recommended for achieving and maintaining good search engine rankings. But what if all the content you’re proudly displaying on your website is actually having a detrimental effect on […]

Getting your name out there: Networking for Freelancers Paradoxically, networking is both essential to running a freelance business, and also much harder to do as a freelancer – especially if you’re working from home. Not only is finding people a struggle, but convincing them of your value isn’t as easy when you’re a lone wolf But there are still plenty of opportunities to […]

When to Say Yes to a Client, and When to Say No Getting leads can be tricky as a freelancer; so when they land in your lap, it’s easy to simply say yes to every one. The truth is, there are times when a polite but firm ‘no’ is actually the best option, both for you and for the client. Here’s a few tips on when to […]

How to Get Through Designer’s Block How long have you been staring at that blank space on your screen? The sad truth is that everyone in every creative field will get that familiar mental block from time to time – the one that slows your productivity to a crawl. You could sleep on it – but that’s maybe not an option […]

The Best Musical Accompaniment to Your Freelance Work Freelancing can get awfully quiet sometimes. Listening to your music while working can be a great stress release and a concentration booster. But could you be unwittingly slowing your own productivity by listening to the wrong stuff? Of course, music is all a matter of preference, but studies have shown that certain genres are better […]

How to Work From Home – Without the Distractions! Working from home as a freelancer. It’s an attractive prospect, isn’t it? No more sitting in a sparse, cold, neon-lit box every day. No more sharing your space with the same people every day. No office chatterbox bleating on and on about their thrilling personal life. No mysterious thief stealing your lunch. Instead, you’re free […]

The Best Free live Chat and Help Desk Software I’ve been using Zopim Live chat for a little over 3 months now to help me pull in more qualified web design leads. I had dabbled with other helpdesk and live chat providers, but a lack of support for mobile and older browsers meant that my search continued. Zopim makes it easy to engage with […]

FreeAgent Review – The best online accounting software for freelancers In this FreeAgent review I’ll take you over some of the fantastic features offered by FreeAgent, I’ll tell you about my personal experiences using FreeAgent, and why I prefer it to all of the other online accounting tools I’ve tried. 10 Discount for Life with Promo Code: 42ql612n If you sign up with the above […]

Web Design Trends to watch out for in 2013 Although the year is only partially complete, a number of new Web design trends are already becoming popular. Many of the top ideas of 2012 are catching on and new ones are increasing in popularity for 2013. Many design trends reflect a growing tendency toward intuitive user interfaces, others just seem to be following the […]

The 10 Best Freelance Tools That No Web Designer Should Be Without Whether it’s due to the longer hours, the uncertain nature of the job, or the requirement to self-manage, many people understand freelance web designing to be among the most challenging jobs there is. Of course, it can also easily be the most rewarding job on the market. With the right tools for every aspect of […]

How I earned a modest but very real $1,200 on the web last year. The web is full of scams, schemes, touts and con-artists all trying to get you to invest in some hair brained bound-to-fail get rich quick endeavour , we’ve all see the sites with the hugely overplayed use of stock photography and the typical browser-crashing video usually on auto play as soon as you load the […]