If you’re unsure of where to begin when it comes to succeeding in freelancing, this is a comprehensive list of everything you need.

This is a collection of all the pieces you can find on this blog, sorted by category. I hope it helps!

Enhancing Freelance Efficiency

  1. The Ultimate Freelance Toolbox: Essential Free Apps for Productivity and Efficiency

  2. How I Make Time for Things, and Then Actually Do Them

  3. The Freelancer's Guide to Beating the Clock: Working Smart, Not Long

  4. How to Get Useful Client Feedback Every Time, Guaranteed

  5. 10 Things I Realised, That Make a Pro Freelancer

  6. How I get my best ideas as a freelancer

  7. You don't lack motivation. You drown in distraction.*

Business Insights and Strategies

  1. [Superpost] The Future of Freelancing: Emerging Trends in the Gig Economy, 2024 and Beyond

  2. Principles and Tools That Help Me Build with AI

  3. Pro Freelancing 101: Stop Charging Hourly Rates, Start Selling Impact

  4. When You Should and Shouldn't Spend Time Pitching to Clients

  5. 7 Lessons I've Learned From Triathlon Training That Help Me Run a Business

  6. 2024 Freelancer Wrapped

  7. Screw "Freelancer." Call Yourself a CEO

  8. How to Succeed in Freelancing Without Work Experience. And Earn 2x More.

Financial Management and Growth

  1. Let's Talk Tax: Some Things I've Learned About Doing Tax as a Freelancer

  2. Why & How to Charge Value (Instead of Hours) as a Freelancer

Branding and Writing

  1. How to Write a PRO Creative Project Brief + Free Template Download

  2. How to Tell Your Brand's Story, and Connect with Your Audience + Free Template

  3. 7 Steps to Write Better Long-Form Pieces (From a Former Full-Time Editor)

  4. How to Answer: "What Do You Do?"

  5. The only structure you'll ever need to tell any story, ever

  6. When to bend your brandguide (and when to break it)

Personal Development and Reflections

  1. Why 'No More Meal-Prep' Has Made Me a Happier Freelancer

  2. Do It Scared: My Journey in Fear-Facing

  3. I'm Not Good at Anything. I Just Say 'I Can.'

  4. Reflecting on Where 99% of My Happiness (Apparently) Comes From

  5. Climbing the wrong mountains is OK (possibly great)

Contemplations on the Future

  1. Navigating the Freelancer Frontier, and Shaping a Better Future with AI

  2. Will the Advancement of AI Lower Human Economic Value Contribution, and Therefore Deemphasize Human Rights, in the Future?

  3. A.I. is the New ReggiesRush, and Humanity is Fumbling a Little.

  4. Automatically write project proposals in seconds. All you need is to answer 13 questions.

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