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We’re publishing the freelancer Q&A series as a podcast. Hope you enjoy!
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Is Automation to Spare Enterprise Devs/QAs from Toil a Good Niche?
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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Can You Make a Living Selling Info Products as a Tech Expert?
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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Is Helping with Strategic Decisions about Codebases a Good Niche?
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Jul 06, 2026 |
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How to Use Pricing to Show Your Value
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Jul 06, 2026 |
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How Did You (Erik) Arrive at Your Niche?
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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Should You Unbundle Strategy and Labor in Services Work?
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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How to Avoid Being Treated Like an Employee?
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May 21, 2026 |
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Is Improving Code Performance a Good Niche?
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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What Is the Difference Between a Niche and Positioning?
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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How Do You Start Consulting?
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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How Can You Go from Employed to Freelancing with Low Risk?
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Should I Gain Leadership Experience Before Freelancing Programming?
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Can You Avoid Having Your Efficiency Questioned by Having Flat Rates?
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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How to Handle a Lucrative Client with No Trust in You
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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How to Avoid Giving Away Consultative Services as a Throw-In?
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Setting Up and Filling Your Funnel with Leads to Avoid Gaps
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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How To Handle a Client Wanting Work When You're Sick?
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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How to Calculate Runway When You Have an Initial Contract
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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How to Build a Marketing Funnel with an Audience on Another Platform
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May 10, 2025 |
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What Should You Do When Asked to Implement a Bad Idea?
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May 09, 2025 |
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Is Strategic Advice a Good Up-Sell for a Programmer?
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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How Should I Price an Hour-Long Training Session?
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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How Should I Handle a Non-Compete Agreement from a Client?
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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How Can You Move to Niching and Value Pricing?
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Does Having More Leads Mean You Can Raise Your Rates?
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Is It Worth It to Bring in Subcontractors?
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Will ChatGPT Replace Freelance Programming?
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Freelancer or Self Employed: What Should You Call Yourself?
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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What Bookkeeping Software Should I Use to Freelance?
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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How Freelancers Can Avoid Self Employment Tax
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Which Meetings with Clients Should I Bill For?
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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When Do You Look Too Much Like an Employee?
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Is California a Bad Place to Start a Business or Practice?
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Should I Run Away If Someone Offers Equity?
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Is It Okay to "Fake It 'til You Make It?"
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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What is the Best Way for Freelancers to Get Paid?
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Should I Approach Freelancing Differently During a Recession
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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What is My (Erik's) Worst Client Experience?
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Is Coaching a Good Line of Work for Independents?
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Should Freelancers Have References, Like Employees?
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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What Are Taxes Like for Freelancers, Compared to Employees?
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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How Many Hours Per Day or Week Should Freelancers Work?
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Is Freelancing Riskier Than Employment?
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Should You Charge for Discovery Calls?
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Is Data Science as Viable for Freelancing as Programming?
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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How Do You Win Long Term Clients?
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May 29, 2024 |
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Is It Normal to Feel Guilty about Raising Rates?
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May 22, 2024 |
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Do You Need a Bookkeeper to Freelance?
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May 15, 2024 |
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What to Say to "Freelancing Isn't a Real Job?"
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May 08, 2024 |
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Client Supplied Contract Instead of Signing Mine
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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What's it Like Adjusting to Not Having a Boss?
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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How Do I Become a True Consultant?
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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What Questions to Ask During Discovery?
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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What To Do When Clients Want Bug Fixes after Contract Ends?
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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How Do I Get That First Client?
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Dealing with Variable Income as a Freelancer
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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How to Use LinkedIn to Generate Leads
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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How Does Insurance Work When You're a Freelancer?
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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How Should You Handle Raising Your Rates?
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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How Do You Break the Feast or Famine Cycle?
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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What Do Freelancers Do When They Get Sick?
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Should You Build a Business in Your Own Name or Pick a Brand Name?
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Managing Context Switching When You Have Multiple Clients
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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What’s the Difference Between a Freelancer and a Consultant?
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Is It a Problem for a Freelancer to Have Just One Large Client?
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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What is a Retainer in Consulting and How Does It Work?
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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How Does a Freelancer Get Started with Content Marketing?
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Should Freelancers Run Ads to Get Business?
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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How Do You Quit a Gig or Fire a Client?
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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What Software Do You Need for Your Freelance Practice?
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Should I Start a Business Bank Account to Freelance?
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Building a Hibernate Training Business with Info Products and Consulting, with Thorben Janssen
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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What Motivates Companies to Hire Freelancers Instead of Employees?
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Should a Freelancer Maintain a Portfolio?
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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What Should You Title Yourself on LinkedIn or in Business Cards?
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Building a Python Training Business, with Reuven Lerner
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Should Freelancers Give Talks as a Way to Generate Business?
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Is Freelancing a Lateral Career Move?
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Bootstrapping and Evolving a Web Development Agency, with Marg Reffell
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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How Can a Freelancer Improve Their Sales Win Rate?
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Should Freelancers Use ”We” on Their Business Websites?
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Balancing Serious Side Hustles and Fulltime Work, with Swizec Teller
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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How Do You Vet Clients as a Freelancer?
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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What Do Freelancers Do for Benefits?
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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When Should You Quit Freelancing?
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Invoicing Basics for New Freelancers
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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From Employment to Freelancing Collective, with Cory Koehler
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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When Should a Freelancer Start Paying People to Do Other Things
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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What To Do When Freelance Clients Won’t Pay
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May 26, 2023 |
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Pricing When You Start Your Freelance Practice
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May 25, 2023 |
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How to Avoid Bad Clients as a Freelancer
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May 24, 2023 |
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Building an Audience for Your Business or Practice
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May 23, 2023 |
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Interviewing, Negotiation, and Sales as a Freelancer
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Freelancing vs Salaried Employment: Is Freelancing Right For You?
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Incorporating as a Freelancer: Your Options and How to Choose
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Should Freelancers Use Upwork?
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Making Your Website as a Freelancer
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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A Guide to Moonlighting as a Freelancer
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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How to Market Yourself as a Freelancer
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Dealing with Lawyers as a Freelancer
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Jan 26, 2023 |