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Don’t Let Your Email Get the Best of You

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Email Handling - Don't Lose Control over Your Email

Recently I came back from a long trip abroad and I realized I have hundreds of starred emails to attend to. Those were readers’ questions, inquiries from prospective clients, comments on my blog or group discussions I take part in, and so on.

See, when I get an email, I usually check it out and do one of three things. It takes time to look through a prospect’s website and send them a proposal based on their initial email.

Filed Under: Time Management Tips

How Working with Difficult Freelance Clients Is like Shooting a Handgun

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Working with Difficult Freelance Clients Is like Shooting a Handgun

A couple of weeks ago I went to a shooting range and held a gun for the first time in my life. I not only held it, I turned out to be pretty good at shooting a target – at least with small-caliber handguns at a close range. That’s my target on the photo 😉

Nevertheless, learning how to shoot a gun in an indoor shooting range reminded me a lot of the times when I had to work with difficult clients. Here are the three rules which could help you score better at the shooting range and when dealing with difficult freelance clients.

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How to Calculate Your Freelance Rates

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How to Calculate Your Freelance Rates

A big portion of my organic search traffic comes as a result of queries relating to freelance rates. I plan to write specific posts to address readers’ questions about how much freelancers of certain professions charge (e.g. social media marketers, marketing consultants, email marketers, etc.) but in the meantime, I’d like to draw your attention to a freelance pricing guide that already is available on this blog. It consists of four parts and I am sure it will address most, if not all of your questions.

Make no mistake – this post will not tell you how much you should charge. It’ll do you one better 😉 It will guide you through the process of deciding what your hourly rate should be, how to calculate your rates on a project basis, and even how to decide whether to charge by the hour or by the project.

Filed Under: Freelance Pricing Strategy

Work Freelance or Keep Your Day Job? How to Decide…

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Work Freelance or Keep Day Job - How to Decide

Many of my blog readers email with all sorts of questions – to name a few: ‘where do I begin’, ‘what should I do’, ‘can I make more money as a freelancer than at my day job’, ‘how hard is it to be a freelancer’, and so on, and so forth.

Obviously, they are hesitant to make the transition from their day job to a full-time freelance practice, and that’s understandable. However, the answers to these questions depend pretty much on the individual situation of each person. So I thought I’d give you a methodical approach to finding the answers on your own before you make the leap from 9-to-5 employment to being a freelancer.

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Two Reasons for a Freelancer to Develop Flexibility

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Two Reasons for a Freelancer to Develop Flexibility

Surprise, surprise! I had to take some unforeseen time off from blogging. I’m traveling for a couple of months far away from Europe and apparently keeping up with my projects while sightseeing and getting myself familiar with new cultures, people and activities proved to be challenging.

To make sure you won’t forget about me while I’m having fun, here are two reasons for you to develop flexibility right now. (And no, this post is not about the unimaginable physical flexibility that you need to work from home on your computer so many hours per week 😉

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