Want to feel more organized? Try cleaning out your inbox. Sometimes, just opening a messy list of emails can make your stress levels rise. Over at Zen Habits, there’s a great post on how to clean out your inbox. I clean out my inbox a few times each year. I try to file and flag […]
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Yesterday, I mentioned that keeping on task is easier when you have something to motivate you. Another trick you can use is artificial deadlines. Even when you have your month stretching out before you, put deadlines in your proposals. Tell clients when they can expect work from you. This helps in two ways. First, it
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People often ask me how I can stay motivated and actually get work done. "I couldn’t possibly work without a boss chasing after me," they say. "I’d be watching movies, shopping, going to restaurants, sleeping in — I’d never work." Well, I’ll let you in on a little secret… If you stop working and don’t
Clients who want free work make up just one piece of the fee negotiation dance. FreelanceSwitch* notes that cost-obsessed clients can also make you do the Twist — and that it’s important to educate the client. Cost-obsessed clients are often new to hiring consultants — but not always. Sometimes, you run into a small business
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Sometimes, you run into a client who follows up after every project with an endless stream of questions. They haven’t paid for your extra time, yet they keep coming to you with questions, like: But how do I choose stamps for the direct mail campaign? Uh, this website…I want to change the graphics. Can you
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Sometimes, you run into a client who follows up after every project with an endless stream of questions. They haven’t paid for your extra time, yet they keep coming to you with questions, like: But how do I choose stamps for the direct mail campaign? Uh, this website…I want to change the graphics. Can you
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I’m currently beta-testing categories for Consultant Journal. These should appear at the right side of your page. If you have any problems using them, please let me know. I’ve already indexed many articles but it will take some time before they’re all classified. I hope this new feature will help readers find the hundreds on
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Consultant Cameron Moll has decided to hang up his consulting hat and take on a a full-time job. But his summary of lessons learned from freelancing make for great reading. I know some of you may be wondering why I’m pointing you to someone who has closed up shop. But I’ve said it before and
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Following this week’s posts on negotiating, I stumbled across a post from Tom Chandler, at the Copywriter Underground. He wrote about how to negotiate your freelance fees without turning into a jerk. (Okay, he didn’t say jerk, but I don’t want some of my more conservative readers to give up at the headline.) Of all
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