Freelancing isn’t static, and if anything proves that, it’s one of the latest acquisitions in the world of freelance work. As much as people (mistakenly) shade Fiverr, you can’t say they aren’t growing to meet the future of freelancing. Not only did they launch their Pro option for higher-end projects, but they’ve also just announced […]
BlackFreelance News Alerts: The Top Companies Hiring Freelancers & Tax Season Tips
Want these delivered to your inbox every week? Sign up for our free newsletter at the right. The Top Companies Hiring Freelancers In 2016 (Forbes) Your Simple Guide To Surviving Tax Season As A Freelancer (Mashable) European Freelancer Platform, twago Extends Its Reach With Acquisition Of Adtriboo (Spendmatters) Essential Career Advice For The Freelance Economy (Forbes) […]
BlackFreelance News Alerts: Backup paychecks and the Presidential Election
Sign up for our free newsletter at the right to have these alerts delivered to your inbox! 11 Freelance Jobs That Pay Surprisingly Well The Backup Paycheck Fund: How to Beat the Freelance Feast or Famine Cycle Age of the freelancer: How a new breed of worker is redefining the 9-to-5 6 Ways The […]
BlackFreelance Industry News Alerts: Insight Into The Client Mind and Freelancing Getting Hotter
What Gawker’s New Contract Means For The Freelance Workforce How Freelancers Can Boost Your Content Marketing Pay Freelancers — Or Pay A Legal Price The Hot Corporate Career of the Future Isn’t What You’d Expect
BlackFreelance Industry News Alerts: Freelance Academics and The Sharing Economy
What Does A Freelance Academic Do? (Times Higher Education) Is The Freelance Economy Sustainable? (NASDAQ) How The Sharing Economy Is Transforming The Freelance Landscape (The Guardian) Freelancer Or Employee: Your Best Arguments (lifehacker)
Why Social Is Essential For Freelancers
I’m sitting here watching Beyonce’s Formation video bloom in all its glorious Southern American Blackness on Twitter…well…that and the predictions of the swarm of cultural dilettantes who will be writing painfully ignorant think pieces and commentary over the coming days and weeks. My greatest hope right now is that writers who understand the nuance and […]
Quick Thoughts: Taking Advantage Of Big Business Mistakes: Mashable
If there’s a marketing song I’d sing from the mountain tops, it’s that big brands have zero idea what they’re doing when it comes to products that appeal to minorities. I’m still not sure if it’s ignorance, malice, apathy or allowing people who are a nasty combo of those things to run rampant in content […]
Quick Thoughts: The De-punking Of Afropunk…It’s Not Just The Music
“Black people with a lot of piercings always throw me off.” This statement came from a heavily tattooed, bi-racial, White-acculturated friend of mine whose visual presence meshes easily with an Afropunk aesthetic. In response I mentioned the eponymous festival and my plans to go. He had no clue what it was. See I’d wanted to […]
Univision’s Purchase Of The Root Worries Me
Backstory: It was announced on Friday that Univision (owned by Haim Saban) had purchased The Root, the Black news and culture site co-founded by Henry Lewis Gates, Jr. I don’t trust Univision. I’ve watched for over a decade (in my studies of Spanish), and their programming is socially juvenile at best. I don’t mean that […]