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Why Working From Home is a Double Edged Sword

Why Working From Home is a Double-Edged Sword

10 November, 2015

Wouldn’t it be great if you could go to work in your pyjamas? Imagine sitting down at your desk with a cup of coffee and casually starting your workday. Now I don’t mean going to the office in your pyjamas, because that would just be awkward. No, what I’m talking about is a job where…

Three Situations When Turning Down Clients Makes Sense

Three Situations When Turning Down Clients Makes Sense

29 October, 2015

I personally can’t think of anyone in the business world who doesn’t want to make as much money as possible.  If you want to live in this world, it takes money to do so. For freelancers, there’s no exception.  Sometimes though, while we want to make as much money as we can, there comes a…

Providing Clients with In depth Estimates

Providing Clients with In-depth Estimates

29 June, 2015

One of the biggest mistakes a freelancer can make is not having an agreement with a client pertaining to the work expected by the agreed-upon deadline. I’ve seen this happen numerous times before to both inexperienced and experienced freelancers alike. The scenario goes a little something like this… The client gets in touch with you…

Changing the Look of Your Website With WordPress Themes

Changing the Look of Your Website With WordPress Themes

12 June, 2015

Let’s face it, the default WordPress theme that comes installed with WordPress is great, but often, we want something that better matches the feel and topic of our sites. Changing the look of a WordPress site is one of the first things most users attempt to do when starting out. The look and feel of…

Why Every Freelancer Needs a Portfolio

Why Every Freelancer Needs a Portfolio

8 June, 2015

There comes a time in every budding freelancer’s life when they will be asked to share some examples of their work with a client. Time and time again, freelancers often wonder why they get turned down and passed up for jobs. They have all the necessary skills and are perfectly capable of doing the job,…

Why Freelancing Requires Effective Communication

Why Freelancing Requires Effective Communication

15 January, 2015

In the world of freelancing, everything is fluid and ever-changing. One day you’re given ten tasks from the client that is absolutely crucial and need to be completed ASAP, only to have them scrapped the next day because something in the timeline has changed. It could also be that the client just changed their mind,…

Business Networking for Freelancers

Business Networking for Freelancers

15 January, 2015

We’ve all heard the saying “It’s not what you know, but who you know”. I couldn’t agree more with this. I didn’t realise the truth until later in life when I began freelancing. Starting out as a freelancer can be a very scary and difficult path. You might do great work and possess the skills…

5 Quick Tips to Encourage Customer Loyalty

5 Quick Tips to Encourage Customer Loyalty

10 February, 2010

Customer loyalty can never be misunderestimated but it often is. It is a proven fact that it is much cheaper to re-market to your current customers and costs less in time and money to resell to them than to find new customers. Why do you think the multinationals bend over backwards with discounts when you…