For many online freelancers in the earlier stages of building their careers, creating stability in their businesses is a primary goal. There’s a misconception about freelancing that the loss of a steady paycheck resulting from leaving the 9-5 life means the loss of predictable income, but this isn’t necessarily a reality. Creating stability and steady, predictable income from online freelancing Continue reading...
4 Tips for Landing Your First Client as an Online Freelancer
You’ve made the decision to go all-in and make your online freelancing dreams a reality… Congratulations! This decision means different things to different people, but for most of us it involves the vision of achieving freedom with our time and income, possibly leaving a less-than-desirable 9-5 behind, and becoming the mistresses of our own destinies when it comes to deciding what we want to do to Continue reading...
Mind-Mapping for Online Freelancers
Mind Mapping is a powerful technique that can be used by anyone in a multitude of contexts. It’s a strategy that can take you from a place of disorganized frustration and overwhelm to streamlined efficiency and productivity, as I recently shared with you in my post ‘Keys to Creating the Perfect Mind-Map’. Mind Mapping holds even deeper potential as an organizational method for online freelancers. Continue reading...
Gift Ideas for Freelancers
It takes a special kind of person to be a freelancer. These are individuals who are typically driven, disciplined, organized, and most of all, who push themselves hard to go the distance with their freelancing businesses. They generally live and think outside the box, and when it comes to building their careers and crafting their lives, they lead a unique lifestyle. For that reason, it may be Continue reading...
How you can make $6,500/month as a virtual bookkeeper
Please tell us about yourself I am a former banker for 13 years turned bookkeeper/business consultant in the past 18 months. I have a wife and 3 boys at home, ages 6, 4, and 2. We live in Rowley, MA, about 30 miles north of Boston, just south of the NH border. What is virtual bookkeeping? Great question. It is a profession that has really come to life in the past 5-7 with the rise of cloud-based Continue reading...