From accountants to writers, I can’t think of one field in which a freelancer shouldn’t be on Twitter. The trick is though, in knowing how you want to use it, and actually getting started (If you’re nervous, make sure to read all the way to the end.) In my work (business writing) Twitter is the […]
3 Ways I Prepared Financially To Be A Full-Time Freelancer
This post will help you with Phase 1 of the BlackFreelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! Freelancing can be scary. As much as it’s true that jobs aren’t nearly as secure as they used to be, especially for Black people, they still offer a financial predictability that freelancing can’t really […]
3 Major Decisions Mid-Career Workers Should Make Before Trying 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! The real disillusionment kicked in for me about seven years into my career. I’d taken the big vacations, tried hobbies ranging from cooking to kickboxing, and gotten a masters degree. One day it […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]