Five Years of Freelancing: 20 Practical Tips

Dave Smyth
Sep 2, 2018 · 6 min read
This calls for cake, right? (Audrey Fretz on Unsplash)

This week marks my five-year freelance anniversary. Technically I was already ‘freelance’ before I became freelance, but that was in an entirely different field. It’s been five years since I became a freelance web designer.

The time has flown, and I’ve learnt a great deal over the years. I made lots of mistakes in the beginning, but these have helped me to refine many aspects of my…

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