Articles by Freelance Switch from September 2013

In this comprehensive ten part series, professional blogger Tom Ewer, shows us how to launch a blog with impact, staying power, and authority. This ten-part Session is comprehensive. Start at the begi...

Keeping the books for your business should be a relatively simple process: with the right tools you can automate at least part of the work and let software handle the tricky parts. Freshbooks is a par...

We’ve made it!After nine posts covering everything from picking a blog topic to choosing high quality plugins for your site, our series on building a profitable authority blog is coming to a clo...

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...

Being able to manage data and move it between apps is a marketable skill. With a few tricks up your sleeve, you can save a lot of time, which allows you to make more impact in your workday. In this qu...

If you’ve been following along with this Session on Kickstarting Your Online Microbusiness, you should have read our deep dive into the top seven online microbusiness models and have chosen the ...

For most bloggers, their authority site is nothing without an audience.Even those who proclaim to write just for the sheer enjoyment of writing readily admit that getting more eyeballs on their writin...

As service providers and online business owners, we are often expected to maintain the social media profiles of our clients, as well as use social media accounts to promote our own work.You can offer ...

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. ...

Every freelancer needs to offer a service, test it in the market, get feedback, and shape that service to better serve their audience. It’s similar when launching new software or a fresh product...

Bigcommerce is one of the most popular eCommerce platforms around. It’s not quite as ABC easy as Shopify, but it’s still simple to use, and what you lose in ease-of-use, you gain in custom...

There are many ways to attract people to your blog, but few that you are in more control of than social media.Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a game of chance and word of mouth is a wild beast tha...

In a world where you can set up an online store in just a few clicks, anyone can become an eCommerce trader.But even though setting up shop is easy, you’ve still got to source products that you ...

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...

For many small businesses and freelancers, the only way to take credit card payments was with specialized Point of Sale equipment or through the use of online payment processors such as PayPal or Worl...

To be in business, you must sell things. To sell things, money must change hands. For money to change hands, you need a way of accepting payments.That’s what a payment gateway is for. A payment ...

If you have been following along with our series on creating a successful authority blog so far, you will have already come a long way.By now you should have a website with a clean yet engaging design...

Are you about to launch a product on the web? If so, you want the sales to jump. To do that well, you need to learn the core concepts of creating landing pages that convert.In this rapid-fire, three-p...

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. ...