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Need to say “No”? Have a sandwich. As service professionals, we're programmed to say "Yes" to pretty much everything. This isn’t a bad thing when we're first starting out and it...
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Should freelancers chase up client leads? If you’re a freelancer, should you chase up your ‘cold call’ emails to client leads? Here I mean your emails of enquiry, letters of...
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The 6 admin habits of highly effective freelancers Habit #1: Create job bags Want to be a highly effective freelancer? Of course you do. Step 1: You’ve had a client...
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Rules for freelance writers … can be broken. Sometimes. This is a story with a moral. Call it an idiom; a Tiffany’s Fable. Whatever. (Clue: It’s about breaking one of...
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Client management tip: Kill fees must die Client management… Possibly the toughest part of what we do as freelancers. At least, it is for me. And I know how I...
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Financial freedom for freelancers (& other oxymoron’s) In 2015, I attended a presentation by Dr John Demartini. You know, the dark-haired dude on the streetpole ads in Sandton? The one...
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Freelancing advice: To freebie or not to freebie? Need some freelancing advice? There’s nothing that gets my back up as much as being asked to provide free freelance writing work...
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What to do as a freelancer when everything’s urgent If I had R100 for every time a client – prospective, new or regular – called or emailed me and said, “Ha...
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