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Pricing & RatesProject Management
Pricing & Scope Management (A Beginner’s Guide to Setting Rates & Boundaries)
Protect your time and income by learning to address scope creep in your freelance projects with smart pricing strategies.
Payments & InvoicingProposals & Contracts
What To Do If Your Freelance Client Refuses To Pay
Unfortunately, many freelancers encounter clients who delay payment, ignore invoices, or simply refuse to pay altogether. Learn how to navigate these difficult situations!
Client CommunicationProject Management
How to Prepare for Client Calls (and Avoid Nervous Rambling)
You're on the phone with a potential new freelance client. The conversation is going smoothly until they ask about cost and timeline. Suddenly, your anxiety kicks in...
Pricing & RatesProposals & Contracts
How to Estimate the Cost of a Freelance Project
Estimating the cost of a project is one of the most important requirements of freelancing. You'll need to calculate hours, set a rate, and present a proposal to the client.
Finances & TaxesPayments & Invoicing
Should You Add Tax to Your Freelance Project Invoices?
You may need to apply sales tax to your invoices when selling products, but you can't just arbitrarily add a tax to your invoices in an attempt to pass your income tax burden onto…
Guest ArticlesLifestyleProductivity
5 Tips for Balancing Wellness and Freelance Work
Work-life balance is never easy, especially for freelancers. You can feel like you're juggling too many things, and your health can suffer. Never fear, though – our tips will help you achieve the balance…
Guest ArticlesPayments & Invoicing
5 Payment Methods to Consider for Your Freelance Business
How you accept payments from clients has a major impact on your freelancing business. Accepting a variety of payment options ensures that you get the compensation you deserve while giving your clients easy ways…
Finances & TaxesPayments & Invoicing
How to Navigate Net Payment Terms on Your Freelance Projects
Many companies use a financial technique called net payment terms which are difficult for freelancers to accommodate. Here's how to handle them like a pro.
Guest ArticlesProductivityProject Management
11 Essential Freelance Tools to Make Your Life Easier
When pursuing a freelancing career, you may feel a bit lost from time to time. Fortunately, there are tons of freelance tools you can use to make it easier for you to complete tasks…
Getting ClientsProposals & Contracts
What’s the Difference Between a Proposal and a Contract?
Freelance proposals and contracts serve different purposes and should be presented to the client as two separate documents. Find out what to include in each of them!
Guest ArticlesProposals & Contracts
Types Of Contracts All Freelancers Should Know As 2+2
The promise of a better life and a flexible schedule is tempting more people who feel stuck in a 9-to-5 job to start freelancing. But it's not as freeing as you might think when…
ProductivityProject Management
How to Schedule Multiple Freelance Projects (and Avoid Burnout)
You must have a system in place for scheduling freelance projects, setting your availability, and maximizing your down time if you want to avoid burnout and keep your freelance business running smoothly.
Client CommunicationProductivity
Teach Freelance Clients to Respect Your Time By Setting Business Hours
Do you ever wonder why clients assume that freelancers are available 24/7, over weekends, and after hours? It's because too many freelancers respond to their requests over weekends and after hours. Teach clients to…
Client CommunicationProject Management
How to Defend Your Design Decisions Without Sounding Defensive
When you put a design in front of a client, they're inevitably going to have an opinion on it. These strategies move the conversation away from who is right or wrong and re-focus both…
Payments & Invoicing
How to Properly Name Your Freelance Project Invoices
Most freelancers don't spend time thinking about invoice naming conventions, but caring about the seemingly trivial aspects of your business is what will set you apart in the eyes of your clients.
LifestyleProductivityProject Management
How to Stay Comfortable as a Freelancer Even When You’re Stressed
There's no avoiding stressful and uncomfortable situations when you run your own freelancing business. The key to staying comfortable during stressful situations is to maintain control of your business from every angle.
Client CommunicationGetting ClientsProject Management
How to Politely Decline a Freelance Project (With 3 Examples)
You won't be a good fit for every project, but don't leave your clients empty-handed. Learn how to politely decline projects while guiding them toward success.
Payments & InvoicingPricing & RatesProposals & Contracts
Why You Should Charge 100% Upfront (and How to Actually Do It)
Have you ever been stiffed by a client? You convinced them to hire you, everyone was eager to get stared, and everything seemed to be going great, but the client either paid you late or…
LifestyleProductivity
How to Maximize & Manage Your Time as a Freelancer
Freelancing awards us the freedom to choose the hours we work, but it is important to have a plan for your days and weeks, even if that plan changes from time to time.
Productivity
12 Essential Freelance Tools That Will Keep Your Business Running Smoothly
Being in business for yourself comes with a lot of added responsibility. Gone are the days when you can focus on your work and leave the billing, scheduling, client management, project management, and new business development to…
Client CommunicationProject Management
How to Present Your Designs So Clients Trust Your Decisions
Even great clients give subjective feedback if you present your design as decoration instead of strategy. Learn how to present your work in a way that earns trust, reduces revisions, and keeps the conversation…