This post will help you with Phase 1 of the BlackFreelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! Last week, I missed a call with a client. There wasn’t an emergency or anything, I just kept working, ignored reminders, and completely blew past the meeting. It wasn’t like me at all, […]
People Want to Pay You…You Just Have to Know Where to Look.
Updated 9/21/2018 This post will help you with Phase 1 of the BlackFreelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! When I got laid off? I was relieved. It reminded of the time a boyfriend I didn’t really like all that much broke up with me…a wash of obligatory sadness that […]
What Choosing a Niche Really Looks Like
This post will help you with Phase 2 of the BlackFreelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! This post applies mostly to B2B freelancers (that’s most of us.) B2C freelancers like makeup artists, trainers, and personal chefs can definitely benefit from niching (and reading this post), but the process will look […]
Freelancer Wins: Amber Ogden Gets Leads on LinkedIn
This post will help you with Phase 3 of the BlackFreelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! You guys know I’m always talking about how important it is for freelancers to be on LinkedIn, and that’s for good reason…it works. I got a heads up from Detroit-based freelance writer, Amber […]
30 Ways Employers Control Your Life
**This post will help you with Phase 1 of your Freelance Workbook.** We underestimate the impact employers have on our lives…and that’s an understatement. I fell asleep last night thinking of all the ways my life has been different since becoming a full-time freelancer but also wondering what my life would be like if I’d […]
Upwork Not Working Out? Try These 5 Tips…
Updated 1/30/18 This post will help you with Phase 3 of the BlackFreelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! People at all different stages of their freelance careers turn their noses up at Upwork, and for the most part, they do it for the wrong reasons. Upwork is a sea […]
10 Ways to Get Past the Fear of Charging For Your Work
This post will help you with Phase 1 of the BlackFreelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! I train a pretty rough martial art — Brazilian jiu jitsu. Six years (and a few fractures and black eyes) in, and the belt that I’m still most proud of […]
5 Things I Had to Say “No” to BEFORE I Started Freelancing
This post will help you with Phase 1 of your Freelance Profile Workbook. One of my biggest beefs with career advice is that it seldom addresses a person’s full life. Like when you get tips on what degrees pay the most without a nod to the satisfaction levels in the careers those degrees lead to […]
The Conversation that Launched My Freelance Career: Doers vs. Connectors
We all, every last one of us, walk into our careers with incomplete understanding. No matter how well-connected, long-educated, or perceptive we might be, there will always be certain rules, certain corners, movements, and paths of power that we cannot see or simply don’t understand. That obscuring of our vision happens because of multiple factors […]
Revisiting The Scars of Employment
This post will help you with Phase 1 of the Black Freelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! Sometimes you don’t realize how bad a relationship is until it’s over. As much healing as I’d thought I’d done since I launched my freelance business, I was reminded today that I […]