by Kayleigh Alexandra | Jun 29, 2018 | Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips, Marketing & Self Promotion
When you decide to work as a freelancer, you start building a special kind of one-person brand — one that will blur the lines between your professional image and your personal one. In doing so, you have the opportunity to represent your unique self in a way that draws...
by Kristen Hicks | Jun 22, 2018 | Event, Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips, Meeting Recaps
Freelancing can feel chaotic. Especially for someone new to working for themselves, freelance work can seem like something that keeps happening to you rather than something you have control over. At Freelance Austin’s June meeting, Candace Gerdes of Mamaste led...
by Kristen Hicks | May 3, 2018 | Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips, Working with Freelancers
Before you can start working with a freelancer, you have to find the right one for the job. When you’ve identified a freelancer (or a few) you think may be a fit for the project you have in mind, scheduling a call or meeting to get a feel for who they are and how they...
by Sam Brown | Apr 20, 2018 | Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips
Freelancers now make up over 35% of the U.S workforce and the stats show no sign of stopping. According to recent stats, 51.6% of businesses in the United States are run out of the home. Usually starting life in someone’s basement, bedroom or any available corner...
by Cindy Dashnaw | Mar 13, 2018 | Freelance Austin Blog, Meeting Recaps
Jeannie Ralston has gone from earning $7,000 for an article to $0. So what does she know about what it takes to get paid? Plenty, actually. Ralston has had her work published as a freelance journalist, a book author and now an online magazine editor. During all that...
by Victoria Greene | Feb 9, 2018 | Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips
Regardless of your age and current rung on the career ladder, you may have noticed that the culture of work is slowly changing. In just a few decades, our career spans have altered dramatically from that of our parents and grandparents. The “job for life” adage seems...
