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3 Useful Changes for an Awesome LinkedIn Profile

LinkedIn made three useful changes that can help you make your LinkedIn profile awesome. The changes were part of LinkedIn’s new look, designed to be simpler, more modern, and easier to use.

If you didn’t notice the LinkedIn profile changes,…


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The Ultimate LinkedIn Profile for Freelance Success This Year

If you have a complete, client-focused LinkedIn profile, when clients search for freelancers you’ll rank high in search results.

Over the past few years, a LinkedIn profile has become a powerful tool in helping freelancers get steady, high-paying…


How to Get Steady, High-Paying Clients with Direct Email

Steady, high-paying clients make it easy for you to make more money with less work. And direct email helps you attract steady, high-paying clients so you can grow your freelance business.

Direct email frees you from low-paying, high-competition freelance…


How to Choose Your Clients Instead of Taking Whatever Work Comes Along

High-paying clients aren’t going to magically find you. But there is a way for you to find these clients, and then attract them.

Working with steady, high-paying clients is the easiest way to build your freelance business. But…


7 Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Start Getting the Clients You Deserve

procrastinating It’s easy to put off or postpone doing things that you know are important to freelance success—like marketing. But procrastinating only makes it harder to get the clients you deserve. Once you…


The Proven Way Margaret Grew her Freelance Business in a Recession

Margaret JohnsonWhen Margaret Johnson, PhD, started freelancing in 2019, she had strong experience. But like most new freelancers, Margaret didn’t know how to grow her freelance business and get the clients she deserved. “

The former professor and researcher in…


How Ginny Vachon Created Freelance Work for Herself During the Pandemic

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and the recession that followed, Ginny Vachon, PhD, had enough freelance work. But her work changed a lot and life became more stressful.

Within two weeks of when coronavirus became a pandemic in the United States…


The Easy Way to Get Bigger, Better Clients: Your Specialty

Specializing is the fastest, easiest way to get bigger, better clients in good times and in bad. If you have an in-demand specialty, you’ll stand out in a sea of freelancers. Specializing also helps you get the clients…


How to Make Marketing as Easy as Tying Your Shoes

t’s easy to use freelance jobs sites or content mills like fiverr, Upwork, or Freelancer.com. But steady, high-paying clients  aren’t using these freelance jobs sites and content mills. And they’re not going to magically find you.

Instead, you have to…