Going into business for the wrong reasons can bring ruin into both your financial and professional life. While freelancing comes

My children know there's something strange about their Mom. She doesn't have a job, for one thing. Heck, she wears

tweetmeme_source = 'FreelanceFolder'; The challenges of freelancing don’t lie in the daily commute or finding the right outfit to wear to work. Instead we have to continually think of ways to market ourselves and drum up business. This isn’t always easy. Not only do we have to stay on top [...]

There's probably no more controversial topic in freelancing than the subject of rates. After all, rates determine how much money we earn, and ultimately, what our lifestyle will be. Here at Freelance Folder, we've talked about rates a lot. We've discussed: How to Set Rates How to Raise Rates The Problem of Low Rates Each time we've discussed rates, [...]

Previously, on Arbenting: The Basics of Brand Building — The Intro, introduced the new series and discussed the idea behind it. As a freelance designer/developer, referred to as a desidev later [...] Related posts:The Basics of Brand Building — The Intro Ten Questions For Fuel Your Creativity’s Adelle Charles What Does True Freelancing Cost? Pt. 1

tweetmeme_source = 'FreelanceFolder'; Are you struggling to make ends meet as a freelancer? You're not alone. Let's be honest. Getting a freelancing business off the ground can be really difficult. The feast or famine cycle catches many who've been accustomed to a regular paycheck by surprise. It's also pretty hard to budget [...]

tweetmeme_source = 'FreelanceFolder'; Freelancing has been around since Sir Walter Scott coined the term in Ivanhoe—but the lances of medieval mercenaries have long since given way to pens, paintbrushes, and whatever creative tools of the trade we can wield. As much as freelancing has changed over the centuries, the changes have [...]

tweetmeme_source = 'FreelanceFolder'; If you're the freelancing parent of a young child, you'll find that many productivity books are simply not applicable. They were probably written by either ultra-productive people without children, or those who are never expected to change a diaper during the daytime. Advice like, shut your home office [...]

Freelancing can be challenging. Most freelancers struggle to build their businesses. They fight hard to win and keep those first few clients. That initial freelancing struggle can be made even more difficult if discrimination enters into the picture. Recently, a popular male blogger made a startling confession on Copyblogger. It turns out that he was actually a [...]

tweetmeme_source = 'FreelanceFolder'; Do you outsource? Outsourcing is a business strategy that has been drummed into my brain by my mompreneur mastermind group, freelancing books like The Unlimited Freelancer, and various other posts on FreelanceFolder (such as this one). You need to outsource if you want to become more profitable, everybody [...]