Linkswitch #81, Raising Rates, Creative Careers, Multimedia Savvy

3 Ways to Raise Your Rates and Crush Your Freelancing Fears

Are you getting paid what you're worth as a freelancer? You might think so, but it's more likely that you " like many freelancers " are charging much less than what your clients are willing to pay. This is especially true if you do excellent work (and I'm guessing that you do).

The primary reason freelancers are undercharging is simple " we're scared to do it. We worry that the work that we are doing isn't good enough or that we aren't experienced enough to charge more. We worry that if we raise our rates, then all of our clients will run away.

The Keys to your creative career

Being in the creative field is often times a challenge; for designers, developers, copywriters, photographers and anything in-between. If you are just starting out in the creative field, maybe you're mid-career and you are not sure where your career will go OR maybe, you have a huge decision to make on what type of job you should take next in your field? This article is here for you.

How to Benefit from Others Wisdom

It's been a while, progress is hard to slow down and right now life is whipping around at high speeds both personally and for my business adventures. I can't help thinking about all the wisdom I continue to pick as I dip into my ebooks, real books, RSS feeds and the like. I want to share with you how I benefit from others wisdom consistently. This will be simple and sweet.

Remote Work No Longer a Perk But a Business Imperative

To the slew of data indicating that working remotely is no longer a rarity, but becoming commonplace, you can add the latest Work Without Walls findings from Microsoft. Microsoft's research shows that enabling employees to work remotely is fast becoming not a perk, but a business imperative.

How To Make One Story into Many By Being Multimedia Savvy

Try to adjust your self-image, you're no longer just a writer, you're a multimedia producer. You produce, you create, not just words on the page, but images, sounds, stories. You don't have to go back to journalism school to learn to use multimedia tools or spend a lot of money on equipment; many new journalism tools are already in your pocket today. With some clever smart phone hacking and a multimedia mindset, you can make every story you report into three (or four, or five") more stories.

Is Perfectionism Holding You Back?

Perfectionism. It's a tricky little concept. People work like dogs at a project and smile as they say they just want something to be so stellar, so excellent, so clearly brilliant that it's"Well, perfect. But let's call perfectionism by its true name, shall we? Fear.

Seminal Productivity Ideas

Occasionally, you read a magazine article or a blog post and have that "Eureka!" moment of insight – something has been revealed and the way you think will never be the same again. Concentrating on the idea of productivity, here is a shortlist of key pieces that have influenced the way we manage our time, our to-do lists, our priorities, and our distractions"

Read Your Kindle Books Online With Kindle Cloud Reader

That's all over now. Amazon just released their new Kindle Cloud Reader, a full-featured Kindle web app so you can read your Kindle books right in your browser. It's got all the features you'd expect, lets you save your books for offline reading, and even works great on the iPad. After the break, we've got screenshots and more info about the newest Kindle app, the app that just might be the main future of the Kindle platform.

Unrealistic Returns in Personal Finance Writing

There's a lot of reward in suggesting amazing stock market returns. It makes your financial plan, whatever it might be, look brilliant. You can suggest almost any old ludicrous thing, but if you're eventually putting it into an investment that returns 12% a year for a significant period, well, your "plan" turns people into millionaires like it's nothing! Too bad it doesn't really work that way.

10 Differences Between Freelancing and Running a Brick and Mortar Business

Those who are new to freelancing or have never freelanced at all may not realize some of the differences between a brick and mortar business and a typical freelancing business. In this post, I'll describe ten of those differences.