Black freelancers are out there every day building their businesses and careers. These are their stories. Tell us about yourself! Hi everyone, I’m Gina Charles and I freelance full-time. I am located in Trinidad and Tobago. I love to read and paint outside of freelancing. Being from the Caribbean of course the beach is the […]
4 Simple Ways to Build Your Freelance Brand
This post will help you with Phase 3 of the Black Freelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! Yeah…so…LinkedIn is REALLY starting to win me over, and that’s despite them being weird about my new ProFinder account. So if you’ve hung around here for a while, you may have noticed […]
Not Getting New Clients? Ask Yourself These 10 Questions.
This post will help you with Phase 3 of the Black Freelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! Every freelancer…every last one of us…goes through periods where we sit back and wonder where our next client (a.k.a. income) is going to come from. So if you’re working through this challenge right […]
Don’t Miss Your Messaging: Your Services Page Matters More Than You Think
This post will help you with Phase 2 of the Black Freelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! Simple solutions are great–especially when it comes to building a freelance website that brings in business while you sleep. One of my favorites involves pretending to be a client. It can be difficult […]
Why Your Portfolio Shouldn’t Include Your “Best” Work
This post will help you with Phase 3 of the Black Freelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! What if I told you that your portfolio isn’t about bragging, showing off, or really even about you at all? Well, that’s exactly what I’m going to say, and that’s because your portfolio […]
Why your messaging is EVERYTHING on your freelance site…
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 […]
Using Niche Thought Leaders To Get New Clients
Serious question…who are the thought leaders in your freelance niche? What are they talking about? Who’s listening to them? How does it relate to what you do? Where do you even find them? The answer to that last question (and it’s the most important) is social. Why Thought Leaders Are So Powerful I don’t […]
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 […]
9 Ways To Educate Yourself On Your Freelance Niche
Updated 6/9/18 This post will help you with Phase 2 of the Black Freelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! If you’re not specializing in a niche, you’re probably making your freelance life harder than it has to be. Since some tweaks I made during website month, I’ve had a lot […]
You Are Not Every Freelancer. It Is Not All In You.
*I ran across some beautiful pictures of Whitney Houston today and decided to try something…See if you can’t find all the Whitney Houston references in this post and leave them in the comments…there are 14…good luck! This post will help you with Phase 2 of the Black Freelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download […]