freelance

Melissa Breau Goes Full Time Freelance and Tells Us About It

The entire idea of going out on your own full time can be thrilling and scary, all at the same time. Melissa Breau is making the leap right now and agreed to answer a few questions for us about how she’s making the process work. Why did you want to freelance full-time? Just to play [...]

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Should Freelancers Remain Freelancers?

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For a long time, I’ve thought of myself — more than anything else — as a freelance writer. But I’ve made a conscious decision that I’m not going to refer to myself as a freelancer anymore. I’m a business owner, maybe an entrepreneur, and, of course, a writer. It’s just a name, but that name [...]

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3 Steps You Probably Ought to Take Before Going Full-time Freelance

I struck out as a full-time freelancer somewhat by accident. I didn’t exactly prepare for it and, in retrospect, there are a couple of things I think can really help a freelancer start out on the right foot. It’s quite possible to succeed even without completing these steps; they just make things a bit easier. [...]

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Interview: Allena Tapia

Allena Tapia, the talented freelancer behind GardenWall Publications, answered a few questions for us about her work. Allena is also About.com’s Guide to Freelance Writing. How did you get into freelance writing? Why did you choose freelancing over a full-time job? I had always freelanced “on the side” for local magazines and websites, so every [...]

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Freelance Switch’s Massive Freelance Survey

This morning, I got a chance to look over the report on Freelance Switch’s survey of over 3700 freelancers. We are talking about 56 pages of very interesting information on all aspects of freelancing. I do wish a few more freelance writers had answered the survey — the results are weighted towards freelance designers — [...]

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Alternative tactics to generating income

You’re a freelance writer, right? You spend all day chasing after contracts and jobs, which can be fun in it’s own way, but isn’t perfectly stable.  I’ve talked before about passive income, but today I want to try thinking outside of the box for ways to make money off our writing. How can we use [...]

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