Fresh freelancers are idiots. Business idiots. At least I was a complete business idiot when I started my one-man show six years ago. When starting up, we freelancers don’t spend…
I started CoachLancer.com in May 2019 with the mission of solving freelancing problems and improving the chances of starting freelancers when building their businesses online. I’ve talked with hundreds of…
Part 1 explained how you can communicate effectively with your client starting from the first lines of text you send via a freelance site. Now, let’s examine those inevitable times…
When joining a freelance site, any of them actually, the first thing you have to create is a profile that attracts clients. It sounds easy, but it is not. The…
Doing freelance online on Upwork, PeoplePerHour, Freelancer or similar platforms is hard because of global competition. Almost everything you have thought of doing is already being done by many others….
Setting up your business as a freelancer is a decisive moment in your career. Things can go great, but most often, before things start to go great, they take the…
A full-time freelance career can be hard to start. This is especially true if you attempt to go straight to the top on any of the global freelancing sites be…
Starting your own business is always hard. Everybody starts from the bottom. There has to be an idea of what to sell, to whom to sell, how to find them,…
Over the years I’ve made a couple of mistakes, I’ve experimented with different styles, and I’ve seen other freelancers do things differently when communicating with clients online. Most often the…
80% of small businesses survive the first year, but only 50% see their fifth anniversary, according to this article in Forbes. The article lists five common reasons why any kind…