My Best 38 Freelancing Tips From The Writers on Medium

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Digital Nomads!

I’ve been there and done that. Living a digital nomadic lifestyle definitely looks interesting, fascinating, and full of freedom. But on the other side of the table, only we know what it takes to fulfil the meaning out of it. What it takes to find out the potential clients, to accept and reject the clients, to retain the clients, to negotiate the right worth when you’re asked to work for free, to meet the ends by the month end.

I’m sure there is a lot more to learn, discover and unfold in this journey. I’ve been reading a lot on freelancing and have compiled the learnings from other experienced people over here on Medium.

Will keep adding to this list as soon as I discover a new one!

Until then bookmark all of these!

Pick up your fav ones and stick to your wall!

Follow the writers whose learning resonate with you the most!

Keep hustling!

1. “The more clients you book, the more you learn, the more valuable you are, the more confident you become.” | Mia Legaspi

2. “Keep Referrals Handy” | Due.com

3. “Offer Additional Help to Existing Clients” | Due.com

4. “Find Expert Advisors And Use Their Advice To Grow Your Freelance Business”| Bjørn Fridal

5. “I don’t mind sharing the dish I cooked but I do mind sharing my recipe for free.” | TheMillennial Nomad

6. “No matter how hard you work, if others can’t see your progress, you might as well not be doing it at all in their eyes.” | Jessie Lewis

7. “A true audience gives you their consistent attention.” | George Kao

8. “Make it for your audience’s audience.” | Steve Bryant

9. “Cultivate a Brand Image of Doing Good” | Due.com

10. “People don’t care about you, they care about what you can give them. Sogive them incredible stuff, and they’ll stick around.” | Anthony Moore

11. “Your email list is where 90% of your income will come from.” | Anthony Moore

12. “Freelancing can give you a taste of working for yourself full-time” | Shannon Ashley

13. “Give up short-term raises for long-term jackpots” | Nicolas Cole

14. “If you want to write for a living, plenty of people are going to tell you that it’s impossible. But you have to work past that negativity.” | Shannon Ashley

15. “If the client asks for an hourly rate, give it to them instantly and confidently, even if you prefer to not to price that way.” | Benek Lisefski

16. “Work your way up (Much like a traditional job)” | Matt Cooper

17. “Nobody pays high rates for writing — they pay high rates for what the writing does for them.” | Sean Meyer

18. “Go for clients who bring you clients” | Alex Busson

19. “People don’t buy a drill because they want a drill, they buy a drill because they want the hole” | Sean Meyer

20. “The worst part of the nomadic lifestyle is knowing that a goodbye is always around the corner” | Eva Gutierrez

21. “Have the expectations of a traveler, not a vacationer” | Alla Gonopolsky

22. “Make remote work a value proposition, not a challenge” | Zaky Prabowo

23. “Understand if you’re a maker or manager, and whether your most important work and superpower is deep or shallow work” | Michelle Retzlaff

24. “It is better to be a 26 year old man who hates his job and quit than to be a 36 year old man who hates his job” | Andrey Azimov

25. “When you leave all your so called certainties behind and force yourself to use your brain in the real world, instead of in school, where tests are standardised, you grow like weed.” | Dan Sapio

26. “Your job is not to make every possible customer happy” | Steve Blank

27. “ Management experts agree that the best way to measure workers’ performance is on their results, or “output,” rather than their “input,” or the hours they spend in an office space” | Kristin Wilson

28. “Freelancing loneliness” | Dijana B.

29. “Referrals are lifesavers” | Chloe Brooks

30. “Views do not equal positive impact” | Jane Harkness

31. “They are not making you money, they are making money off of you” | Alice Minium

32. “Idea + Execution + Monetization” | Kristin Wilson

33. “Look at how you perform when you don’t have to” | Due.com

34. “Your headline is a great place to start” | Mathias Rin

35. “The key to retaining any client: “Underpromise & Overdeliver” | Deb Knobelman, PhD

36. “Pajamas and boxers are out of the equation” | Nicole Policarpio

37. “Killer content entertains, educates, moves or improves people’s lives” | John P. Weiss

38. “When you work for yourself, you are paying your own tuition” | Jill Carlson

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