This post will help you with Phase 3 of the Black Freelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! I bet you started your freelance website without any clue what your messaging was. It’s ok if you did…I did the same thing. I get a feeling most freelancers do. That said, it’s something […]
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5 Things That Are More Important Than Your Personal Brand (For Now…)
This post will help you with Phase 2 of the Black Freelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! I’ve got a freelance secret… 5 years into freelance writing, 2 years full-time…and I still don’t have a business card. I also don’t have a logo…or even official colors. Those are cardinal […]
Stuck In A Social Media Rut? Here Are 5 Fixes.
My niche (healthcare tech) has one of its biggest conferences coming in up just a couple of weeks. It’s massive…50,000 visitors…over a thousand vendors…Of course everybody’s running around like chickens. Marketing at the conference is a huge deal, but it’s also very difficult, because no one goes to conferences to be sold to. I […]
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 […]
Why Every Black Freelancer Should Be On LinkedIn (And How To Get Started)
Updated 5/15/2018 This post will help you with Phase 3 of the Black Freelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! LinkedIn catches so much unfair shade. I take that back…it was 99% deserved until the platform started to understand that it doesn’t need to be Facebook with fewer memes. Basically, LinkedIn […]
BlackFreelance Academy: Freelance Fundamentals
Freelancing is a career you should build gradually. The Academy helps you through that process. The life of a freelancer can be lonely and frustrating (it doesn’t have to be), and all too often, people who genuinely want to try out the freelance life get stuck either never trying freelancing because they’re looking for the […]
Turn employment experience into freelance freedom…
…An enterprise software sales rep who became a commercial writer …A business school student turned marketing cartoonist …A healthcare project manager who works as a content strategist for tech companies …An architect’s daughter turned content creator for architecture firms These are all stories of people who turned their experience in and around employment into […]
Is Your Freelance Website Missing This Essential Element?
Success as a freelancer is incredibly difficult if you don’t know who you work for. It seems counterintuitive, but when you’re precise about the kind of customer you work with and really specialize in the kind of freelancing you do, you spend less time and effort trying to find clients. That’s when you can really […]
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