Paid Blogger
Skeelie earns her income by writing for important blogs like FreelanceSwitch and ProBlogger. In this interview for wakeuplater, she talks about how she started to write for these blogs and how she generates her online income.
I think it’s also vital to subscribe to plenty of blogs outside your own niche. Translating ideas from other niches into your own can create something new and unique. It also helps prevent you from starting to sound like everybody else writing on the topics you cover.
[Via Wakeuplater]
The working day
To be efficient and effective as a web worker you’ll need to come to grips with a few important tools and change some rusted-on behaviours. In part 3 of the Becoming a Freelance Web Worker series I’ll describe exactly what you need to make it through your first working day (and every day after that) as a wired freelancer.
[Via Freelanceswitch]
Plan but act quickly
When you start a business, you should consider your personal goals and how it can help you accomplish them. Then you need a plan to help you start from the ground. Define the plan but be quick to act and adjust it whenever it is necessary.
When I founded my business back in October 2006, I had no idea that a year and a half later, my business plan would be to make money through writing. My plan was to write software and then maybe start making games after I had stabilized my software business.
[Via Jarkkolaine]
Creating a freelancing brand
You need to be sure that your potential clients know exactly why you stand out from the competition. Dave Navarro has a three-steps list which shows how to do this.
If you’re not wrapping your personal brand around everything you present to the world online, you’re going to lose customers to those who are. Here are three simple steps that can help you strengthen your brand in the next seven days.
[Via Freelancefolder]
