Freelance Mentor & Marketing Consultant
How a prospect treats me as early as the preliminary negotiations stage determines whether I’d work with them or not. Note this post is not about paying clients vs scammers. It’s more about the mentality of the ideal client and how they treat their freelancers compared to bad freelance clients.
The ideal client doesn’t need freelancers to work for him. He or she needs a freelancer to work with them.
You want to go freelance? Good for you! I know going freelance was the best decision I ever made in my career (if I can call it a career, that is). It was hard, I had my fair share of rejection letters and sleepless nights but it was worth it, all of it.
All the efforts and time I put into crafting my profile, learning how to write cover letters, improving my marketing skills and my people skills, paid off. But before I did all that, I had to ask myself some tough questions.
Here are 5 questions you should ask yourself before you make the decision to go freelance.
Most freelancers work entirely online and from home. Although we are not at the same risks as firemen, police officers or even bank tellers and store cashiers (armed robberies happen more often these days!), we still have occupational hazards such as bad clients, lack of work, too much work, and alike. Today, I’ll talk about top 5 occupational hazards of freelancers the way I have seen them during the past 5 years or so of my freelance practice.
The life of a freelancer is often associated with feast or famine. But this is just another myth that needs busting right here and now so people are not afraid to quit their day jobs only because they fear financial insecurity. Truth is, since I started freelancing, I enjoy better financial security than the one I had as an employee. Let me tell you why.
Today I’ll take a break from blogging about freelance and will give you an update what I’ve been up to. Three major changes going on right now!
Relocation happening as we speak!
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