It's summer and everyone seems to be travelling or constantly chilling by a swimming pool - at least if Facebook is any indication. Meanwhile, you’re sitting at your desk and worrying about deadlines. Sound familiar? As a freelancer, your summers won’t always be free even if there are periods when you get fewer jobs. But don’t despair. You have a...
WordPress Hack: 19 Ways to Keep Your Site Secure Against Hackers
WordPress now powers more than 25% of the world’s websites and almost 50% of the world's e-commerce websites - that's a big responsibility for an open source project! WordPress’s simplicity and versatility as a blogging platform, CMS, and web app framework is what makes it so popular, but with so much popularity comes significant risks – such as...
3 Lessons Freelancer’s Can Learn from Cal Newport’s Deep Work
If you’re one of those people who likes to read books on productivity and find out about how successful people reach their goals in unique ways, you will love Cal Newport. A 35-year-old professor in computer science at Georgetown University, Newport not only has a Ph.D., but has also written several highly successful books ideal for freelancers.
Growth Hacking for Freelancers in 6 Steps
Growth hacking has become quite the buzz word in the past couple of years. But, as many buzz words, it is often misunderstood. Growth hacking isn’t some crazy, ridiculous way to magically turn your business from a garage shop to Microsoft in a couple of months.
Pricing a Software Development project: Fixed Price vs Time & Material vs Fixed Budget
So you’ve finally found a software development company to implement your idea for a web/mobile app (or both). But what’s next? What’s with all these pricing arrangements? Which type of contract to choose? There’s no need to panic, let’s run through the options...
5 Simple Steps to Using Facebook Ads to Boost Your Business
Facebook – the platform we all read about each day, spend innumerous hours staring at and still proclaim dead every few months although it keeps on growing. The social network is all that and a bit more. Namely one of the best places to advertise your freelancer business. Landing clients, locally or internationally, is a possibility a lot of...
Writing an eBook as a Freelancer – Why and how to do it in 5 Easy Steps!
Are you thinking about writing an eBook? You should be! Writing and publishing an eBook can benefit your freelancer career in a multitude of ways. You not only get the extra cash and put your name out there, writing a book can be an amazing personal experience, too!
Joel Ackermann – Freelance UX and UI Designer & Digital Nomad
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...