This post will help you with Phase 1 of the BlackFreelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! My transition to freelancing was a relatively easy one. While I didn’t make the smooth transition of building a side income slowly while fully employed (though I was building solo-employment skills), I did have […]
Creating Your Best Portfolio
Your portfolio is an experience. Testimonials, samples…I stressed about getting those together into a great package when I first started freelancing as a writer. What I didn’t realize at the time, was that the traditional portfolio—that collection of art work, photographs, successful projects—was just one of many checkboxes that clients were looking to tick before […]
Finding Freelance Clients: Black Fashion Edition
Finding Freelance Clients: Black Fashion Edition Your favorite sites probably live and breathe by free content…i.e., people like you doing great (or not so great) work for them for absolutely nothing. This would be an obvious problem anywhere else in the world — I used to go to a gym where the vast majority of […]
Marketing Your Freelance Services To Black Businesses
Let me start this off by saying this is not my area of expertise. I work with B2B companies in a standardized industry, but want to help further a deeper conversation around marketing, and help you sell your services at the same time. I’m not a procrastinator. I’m the opposite…I over-prepare and pre-prepare, and […]
10 Things Freelancers Should Blog About
Blogging sells what you do without the work. That’s why I’m a firm believer in maintaining an online presence, even if your goal isn’t to become “a blogger”. Especially in freelancing, it helps to demonstrate knowledge, your ability to communicate, it creates a platform to show off your skills, and is proof that you’re engaged […]
3 Reasons You’ll Be Great At Freelancing
This post will help you with Phase 1 of the Black Freelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! If you have a full-time job (or are looking for one), you’re aiming for a straightforward employment relationship—you sell your work to one company and they pay you a set rate (per hour, […]
7 Thoughts On The Value Of Black Labor
7 Thoughts On The Value Of Black Labor I woke up this morning to a stomach-turning account from a guide at a slavery museum. It was about an exchange with some White visitors, and basically amounted to the visitors’ efforts to argue (and I’m sure convince themselves), that slavery wasn’t that bad, that masters […]
Q&A: Race And The Mysterious, Disappearing Job Prospect
Those of us with White-passing names know this story all too well…you build up a stellar resume, send out applications to multiple positions, go in for interviews and somehow…none pan out. Strangely, people who were excited and enthusiastic to meet you on the phone seem cold and detached in person. I have too many of […]
10 Ways Freelancing Liberated My Life
This post will help you with Phase 1 of the Black Freelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! Working for myself as a freelancer has brought me freedom in more ways than I ever would’ve thought. Every freelancers says that, but it’s one of those things people say because it’s true. […]
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 […]