Articles by Freelance Switch from April 2013

Once a week, we feature a fantastic freelance-themed comic from the talented N.C. Winters. Why not also take a look at our comic archive? ...

One of the great benefits of social media is the ability to reach a large audience at little cost. Using the popular hashtag notation, you can spread your brand, take advantage of popular trends, and ...

Disability is one of those things that can happen suddenly. Or it can develop over a period of years. It can also be a fact of life that you’ve dealt with since birth. It’s a challenge for...

Google Plus is the thinking person’s social network. It’s rapidly becoming the place to go for anyone looking to take part in thoughtful and engaging discussion online.This makes Google Pl...

We all read articles about how important it is to market ourselves through social media. Ive been talking to successful freelancers to find out the realities of using social media for business and get...

Whenever a reader marks your email newsletter as spam, you’ve got problems. The better classes of email service providers keep track of how many times they’re told a particular email newsl...

For freelancers, especially those just starting out, it can be difficult to find the time and money needed to launch your website. Many, in fact, simply opt to use social media sites in place of a web...

Once a week, we feature a fantastic freelance-themed comic from the talented N.C. Winters. Why not also take a look at our comic archive? ...

Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and c...

Is your blog a lonely place? Often, freelancers start a blog about the type of work they do, in hopes of attracting clients with their posts.But nothing happens.The reason is usually that your tiny st...

The relaunch of my freelance writing business in early 2012 began on Google Hangouts. I’d been hired as part of a team of ebook writers and editors. We hooked up from all around the world: from ...

We’re ready to announce something new and exciting the Tuts+ Hub beta!As you know, Tuts+ is all about helping people learn. With Hub, weve worked to deliver an experience that makes i...

Once you’ve got a newsletter set up to bring you in new clients, you may start to think about what else you can do with the newsletter format to promote your freelance business. One of the optio...

Once a week, we feature a fantastic freelance-themed comic from the talented N.C. Winters. Why not also take a look at our comic archive? ...

Editing files in Google Drive can be a bit confusing at first because Google Drive has their own native files. While you’re likely used to editing Word and Excel documents, Google Drive has thei...

“How do I find work?” is one of the toughest questions freelancers face.While there’s no magical work fairy to grant your wish for new clients, there are things you can do to make it...

If you’re a freelancer and you have a blog, you’re probably hoping your posts will impress clients and get them to hire you.Unfortunately, most freelancer blogs don’t get so much as ...

Once a week, we feature a fantastic freelance-themed comic from the talented N.C. Winters. Why not also take a look at our comic archive? ...

Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and c...

What’s the point of having a newsletter if it doesn’t provide you with paying clients? It takes a lot of work to put together a newsletter regularly, as well as to make people aware that i...

Freelancing is increasingly a digital profession, especially when it comes to marketing your services.From writers to designers to coders, most of us spend our lives sitting behind a computer screen w...

Back in the bad old days, many people would maintain email lists by hand: they would have a text file saved somewhere, with a list of email addresses. Then, whenever they were ready to send out a news...

Jump to Hired Gun Part 1, Hired Gun Part 2, Hired Gun Part 3, Hired Gun Part 4, Hired Gun Part 5, Hired Gun Part 6, or Hired Gun Part 7 in this Freelance Freedom series.Once a week, we feature a fanta...