Leads are the lifeblood of your career. This list will make sure you can find them when you need them. — When you’re a freelancer, at least one-third of your time should be spent finding new work. You never know when one of your clients will decide to shut down the project or work with someone else. In other words, it’s better to have a waiting list of work than to…

Most of us don’t have the gall to jump off the cliff without a plan. So if you want to freelance full-time, you need to be intentional. — I didn't have a good plan when I decided to freelance full-time. Or any plan for that matter. It kinda fell into my lap after leaving my corporate job of 10 years, then fiddling with different jobs and side hustles. All while watching my bank account dwindle and bills pile…

You can get comfortable. Soon, it looks like a job again. Here's how to reduce the risk. While archiving my emails, I saw my first interaction with one of my clients in 2018. We've been working together since, and they're hands down the easiest and friendliest. …

You're leaving money on the table if you aren’t creating blogs and other long-form content. — Google and Facebook Ads. Billboards. Radio. Newspaper ads. Instagram and now Tik Tok. What do they all have in common? These are the platforms most businesses — large and small — focus on to get customers. And I get it. It works. You can buy new customers through these channels…

Once you set it up right, you can become a full-time freelancer in a year or less. — Can freelancing be a full-time career? And if so, how do you do it? Freelancing can be a full-time career, but it takes some planning, patience, grit, and lots of hustle. Some freelancers make it look easy. They move to Bali or Medellin, working how and when they want. Others…

Curse. Cry. Wipe your tears. Then set up a system that works. Getting ghosted by a client is a rite of passage for a freelancer. There are thousands of wonderful clients who need good work and pay on time. …

Is it just me, or do you feel like packing it by midday? Here’s what I’m doing for more pep. — 😪 Your mind says yes, but your body says no. No, it’s not a weird twist on Bump and Grind. It’s just that we don’t have the zeal to get bumping and grind out our best work, interact with our friends, or give our spouse and kids boundless energy and…

Running after passive income is fool’s gold. Use your skills to freelance instead. — There are over 100,000 searches for ‘passive income’ on Google each month and much more on YouTube. We all like the idea of setting and forgetting like a George Foreman Grill that produces money instead of evenly cooked meat. We want that income to allow us to sleep more, to…

Set goals. Level up. Fight. And don’t forget those side quests. — I’ve been a gamer for as long as I can remember. Some of my first video games were handheld LCD games of Terminator 2 and Tetris. My mom could not afford consoles, so I’d steal time playing Pokemon on my friend’s Gameboy Pocket. Or Starfox and Mario Kart on my…