Freelance Tips
A friend of mine just quit her job, and she asked me if I know anyone who’s looking to hire an office manager. (If you do, let me know.) I want to help her find a job, because I’ve known and worked with her for years on various projects and she’s always been professional, courteous, [...]
June has been a busy month for me. I’d intended to launch four (yes, four) new websites from scratch, each with different goals and different audiences. All this, in addition to writing the next season of The Baristas and nailing down a quartet of freelance contracts, at first seemed totally do-able all at once. Then [...]
Last year, I caught hell for wearing shorts while speaking at a conference. Some of the attendees felt that I couldn’t be taken seriously because I wasn’t wearing the preferred garb of “those who are to be believed” — e.g., a blazer and khakis. To them, I said (and still say) this: thank you, and please [...]
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As I prepared to revamp my services page to better showcase the types of work I do (and the prices I charge), I was interested in exploring a variety of pricing methods to find the one(s) that work best for me. Granted, I’ve written several times about freelance pricing over the years, including: 5 Tips [...]
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Last week, one of my agency clients emailed me. One of their clients had requested another copy of a video we’d produced for them, and which we’ve already sent to them twice, because they couldn’t find their copies and they needed one. For a presentation. That day. The file wasn’t on my laptop, so I [...]
