Meet our Freelancer of the Week, Joel Ackermann! Joel has been freelancing and travelling for almost six years. Read our interview on how he got started, the challenges he's faced, and how he juggles the digital nomad lifestyle with a successful UX and UI Design business.
If This Then That: What is IFTTT & 7 Recipes for Your Freelance Business
Little tasks add up – managing calendars, creating to-do lists, sorting emails, downloading and organizing attachments: those are all precious minutes you can use to increase your productivity or give your mind some much-needed rest. Would you like to win those minutes back? Welcome to IFTTT!
5 Ways to Utilize Multimedia Formats for your Own Freelance Webpage
Freelancer webpages are often the first place where a client really learns about you. Even if they stumbled upon you via a recruiting page, you applied directly or somebody served as a middleman, they will go to your page to get a better impression. And while having a page with long, thought-out texts is definitely not a bad thing, sprinkling a...
Freelancing while Studying? Here’s Why You Should Start Now
Freelancing is a rapidly growing way of work, and is especially appealing to younger people. That’s because the younger generation is no longer into the mindset that 9 to 5 is the only way to do it- and that was the thinking for decades. For young people today, the world has changed – and the creative and motivated ones are very likely to go into...
Timothy Oxendale – Freelance Web Designer & Developer from the UK
Tim has been a freelance web designer for over 8 years, working from his home in Wolverhampton, UK. Tim loves the variety his work gives him, and says his one piece of advice to other freelancers would be to never stop pushing yourself to become a better and more efficient worker!
How to Correctly Quote for a WordPress Project
Many of you have chosen Freelancing as your living. And trust me, I know how important it is for you to get clients attention and trust. “Quote” is a term for estimated pricing a freelancer or a company will be charging to its client. Quoting is an art and as a freelancer, you must master it.
4 Reasons why Machine Learning is the Next Big Thing for Freelancers
Machine learning has been the hottest buzzword in tech for a while now. It’s at the core of stuff like self-driving cars, digital assistants like Alexa and is even used for online recommendations like the ones you get on Netflix. Think of any new exciting area in tech and it is very likely that it is connected with machine learning on some level.
Vicsante Aseniero – Senior .Net C# Developer from Davao, Philippines
Vicsante has in the IT Industry for almost 17 years, working remotely for 8 of those years from Davao City, Philippines. Vicsante decided he wanted a career in the IT industry ever since he graduated with a BS in Computer Engineering - and he's been successfully navigating remote working life ever since!
Freelancing With Small Children: Tips & Tricks
Many people go into freelancing because they want to spend more time with their children at home – and that’s a wonderful thing. Making a living and taking care of your children at the same time hasn’t really been possible for the masses until now.
Trend Prediction with LSTM RNNs using Keras (Tensorflow) in 3 Steps
Understanding the up or downward trend in statistical data holds vital importance. It helps in estimation, prediction and forecasting things ahead of time. Its potential application are predicting stock markets, prediction of faults and estimation of remaining useful life of systems, forecasting weather etc. This article covers implementation of...