This post will help you with Phase 2 of the Black Freelance Foundations Workbook…if you haven’t started yours yet, download it now! Freelancing isn’t free, but education can be. This is important to keep in mind, especially as you’re exploring different niches. Making use of free resources to build your understanding of various industries and […]
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 Homepage
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 want you to answer a hypothetical question for me. You’re throwing a cookout next weekend for your cousin’s 16th birthday and are looking for a DJ. You start doing research…asking around, getting […]
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 […]
Freelancing Without A Minimum Hourly Rate? Please Stop…
I’m going to bet that if I asked you your minimum hourly rate, you wouldn’t be able to tell me…if you can’t, that’s a problem, but by the end of this post, you’ll be on your way to having your starter rate and getting a measurable handle on your freelance income. What Is A […]
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 […]
5 Quick Ways To Handle Freelancer Anxiety
If you follow me on Twitter, you might have seen me worrying-out-loud about a client who I’m concerned is about to drop me. It’s my biggest client, and while when I first started freelancing, I counted this kind of thing as part of the game, I’m at a point now where it sometimes can get […]
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 […]