GoforFreelance.com Resources

A successful freelancer is like an entrepreneur - pitching for work, bagging it, providing quality, and sustaining clientele.

Successful freelancer threfore has a common factor with entrepreneurship - planning and hard work.

One tip I can give you, in the case of bidding for work - make your bid optimum. Consider the fact that the job provider is looking to cut on costs too and at the same time get good work. So mark your bid keeping this as one of the parameters.

It has worked well for me so far.

I don't know about the mind of the employer that takes on freelancers, I just know that I enjoy a tremendous amount of leverage in terms of work hours, money, etc. I have a lot of time to do the things I have wanted... freelancing rocks!

Wouldn't it be great to quit the rat race? To leave bosses and
timeclocks
behind, skip the commute, ditch the heels or tie, and work in the same
clothes
you wear to weed the garden?
It's called "taking the plunge," and if you're at all serious
about writing, you've probably dreamed about it. But you may also have
regarded
that dream as, at best, nothing more than an improbable fantasy.
Writing may be
the career you love, but chances are it's not the career that's keeping
food on
the table and a roof over your head.

by Evany
Thomas

So you finally gave into the siren call of freelancing ("I want to work
when and only when I feel like it! I want to earn insane hourly rates!
No more ruts, no more office politics! I'm going solo. ["Born Free"
swells, fade out]). That, or your head rolled in the latest round of
layoffs. Or maybe your company folded altogether.
Whichever way you managed to exit Dodge, you now
find yourself unencumbered by a salaried position. And instead of looking
for a new job, you're pulling a free-bird. You've printed
your own business cards, buffed up that e-résumé
and e-portfolio, and you're ready to start lining up those
clients.

Wanted to know..what is an ideal pricing scheme for freelance work? Anyone with anything on this? feel free to post. I have work, but i want to know how i can optimize pricing and garner some more stuff to work on.

My first experience at renewing my freelance writing (I had been hibernating) was almost disastrous. Some dude with promises of giving $200 worth of 'data entry work' weekly almost had me! Luckily, my sixth sense saved me! What's with these guys?

Thursday August 4, 2005
Author: Garrett Dimon

It seems like everybody is or wants to be a freelance web
developer. Of course, this makes sense because it enables such a
glorious and carefree lifestyle. Rather, that’s what
everybody envisions.
Unfortunately, it’s not as easy as creating a web
site and cashing checks. There’s a lot more to running a
business that isn’t sexy or fun. Parts of owning your own
business are downright boring, tedious, and expensive.

A freelancer or freelance worker is a self-employed person working in a profession or trade in which full-time employment is also common. The word's etymology was apparently invented by Sir Walter Scott, the 19th-century poet, to refer to a medieval mercenary, a "free lance," a knight who was not attached to any particular lord, and could be hired for a given task.
Fields where freelancing is especially common include journalism and other forms of writing, computer programming and graphic design, consulting, and many other professional and creative services. But the practice is widespread: for example, bounty hunters and mercenaries are freelancers, with their full-time counterparts being, respectively, the police and the military. Many sex workers are also freelancers.