The Born Freelancer on the Art of the Cold Call
This series of posts by the Born Freelancer shares personal experiences and thoughts on issues relevant to freelancers. Have something to add to the conversation? Your input is welcome in the comments. Several posts back I interviewed a marketing guru and we discussed various forms of marketing. What he didn’t mention were some of the old school [...]
The Born Freelancer on the Care & Ethical Treatment of Interviewees, Part 3
This series of posts by the Born Freelancer shares personal experiences and thoughts on issues relevant to freelancers. Have something to add to the conversation? Your input is welcome in the comments. Over the last couple posts I have discussed the importance of a freelancer’s interviewees and some of the techniques I have learned to maximize results [...]
The Born Freelancer on the Care and Ethical Treatment of Interviewees, Part 2
This series of posts by the Born Freelancer shares personal experiences and thoughts on issues relevant to freelancers. Have something to add to the conversation? Your input is welcome in the comments. In my last post, I wrote about caring for and ethically treating one of our most important freelance career assets, interviewees. In this post I [...]
The Born Freelancer on the Care & Ethical Treatment of Interviewees
They are among the most invaluable assets a professional freelancer can cultivate and yet their care and well-being is too often taken for granted and ignored. I’m talking about your list of “contacts” or sources or interview subjects. They are the life blood of any freelancer’s career. I’d like to share some thoughts with you [...]
The Born Freelancer Looks Into Marketing
This series of posts by the Born Freelancer shares personal experiences and thoughts on issues relevant to freelancers. Have something to add to the conversation? Your input is welcome in the comments. It’s one of those ubiquitous buzz words every freelancer will encounter sooner or later – marketing. You read a lot of unsolicited advice about it [...]
The Born Freelancer Looks Into Self-Publishing
This series of posts by the Born Freelancer shares personal experiences and thoughts on issues relevant to freelancers. Have something to add to the conversation? Your input is welcome in the comments. What freelancer has not dreamed the dream of self-publishing…. we think, oh, I won’t have the hassle of dealing with an indifferent publisher any more, [...]
The Born Freelancer on the Art of Collaboration, Part Two
This series of posts by the Born Freelancer shares personal experiences and thoughts on issues relevant to freelancers. Have something to add to the conversation? Your input is welcome in the comments. My recent post On The Art of Collaboration seems to have received a fair amount of interest, so I thought I would explore a few [...]
The Born Freelancer on Surviving the Holidays
This series of posts by the Born Freelancer shares personal experiences and thoughts on issues relevant to freelancers. Have something to add to the conversation? Your input is welcome in the comments. The only thing as stressful as not having enough work to do over the holidays is having too much work to do over the holidays. [...]
The Born Freelancer on the Art of Collaboration
This series of posts by the Born Freelancer shares personal experiences and thoughts on issues relevant to freelancers. Have something to add to the conversation? Your input is welcome in the comments. It certainly seems like a good idea to some freelancers. You get along so well, you seem so simpatico, you are such good friends – why [...]
The Born Freelancer’s guide to healthy eating – Part 3
This series of posts by the Born Freelancer shares personal experiences and thoughts on issues relevant to freelancers. Have something to add to the conversation? Your input is welcome in the comments. Over the past two weeks I have looked at some of the ways freelancers can improve their diets in order to maintain their health and ability to [...]
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