Freelancers, this one's for you!

This week's Friday Freelance Tips is fired up and ready to go out 🎉 TOMORROW 🎉

It includes:

Most freelancers are stuck in reactive mode.

What freelancers REALLY want for Christmas:

Pitching is tough at the best of times, but the hardest part is knowing whether a lead is really worth the hassle of reaching out.

How can you *really* know if they have a budget or will be open to working with you? 👇

Freelancer math:

One client email: 30 seconds.
Overthinking your response: 3 hours.

Invoicing is probably my least favourite part of freelancing.

More specifically, chasing invoices.

Tomorrow's Friday Freelance Tips newsletter is scheduled and ready to go out.

It includes:

👉 Why your freelance rates say more about you than you think
👉 A new Freelance Money Diaries entry from a freelance editor
👉 Everything I've worked on this week (+ the hours I worked + how much I billed)

This freelancing advice is outdated (part 2)...

If you’ve tried cold pitching recently, you might have found it’s not having the same results it used to.

And here’s why:

There are many things that make being a freelancer GREAT.

We can set our own schedules, choose who we work with, and there’s no glass ceiling on our earnings.

But there are downsides too 👇

Freelancing: living the dream, one unpaid invoice at a time.