We monitor countless quality sources on freelancing and choose only the best content to save your time.
Subscribe to our monthly Freeletter with a curated selection of world-class freelance news and subscribers-only content + get our free PDF guide How to become an international freelancer right now as a new subscriber:
Your privacy matters: We won’t share your email address with anyone else and you can cancel your subscription anytime. Also, we do not store anyone’s IP address nor do we track who opens and reads our newsletter.
A geeky tip for individual stock-picking investors that will give you some Awwwwwwww moments: StockRover is an awesome-yet-paid stock screener chosen as #1 in 2021 for buy-and-hold investors by Investopedia. Best of all, you can have 2 weeks for free 🤓
Share or discuss: LinkedIn Facebook X (Twitter) Permalink
Little-known European Lindat translator based on Cubbitt models is one of the best in the world — beating both Google and DeepL AI translators, and even passing a “Turing translation test” where its results are indistinguishable from human translation. However, professional human translators are still much better at translating more complex texts.
You can try Lindat online for free to translate between 6 European languages: English, French, German, Russian, Polish, and Czech.
Share or discuss: LinkedIn Facebook X (Twitter) Permalink
Today, we have added 35 new items to our expanding list of 350 European freelance platforms, resources, communities, groups, marketplaces, and websites. If you know of any resource that is missing, let us know! The list is especially useful for freelancers looking to expand their professional network in Europe.
Share or discuss: LinkedIn Facebook X (Twitter) Permalink
Facebook is launching Bulletin.com, a newsletter platform similar to Substack or Revue (owned by Twitter). Quality newsletters are a huge trend, sucking creative professionals and their content out of overcrowded and ever-more-toxic social media networks while also allowing them to earn from subscriptions.
Share or discuss: LinkedIn Facebook X (Twitter) Permalink
If you are a freelance developer or a small website owner crushed by Big Tech monopolies and their one-sided policies, here is some good news. Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, and others will be prevented from abusing their dominant position by a set of new U.S. laws, explains David Hansson.
Share or discuss: LinkedIn Facebook X (Twitter) Permalink
About Creators, for Creators — that’s a tagline of a superb YouTube channel Colin and Samir co-founded by the two pioneers of creator economy, Colin Rosenblum and Samir Chaudry. They also sent out a regular newsletter for creators at The Publish Press.
Share or discuss: LinkedIn Facebook X (Twitter) Permalink
When taking highly challenging tasks, like performing on a big stage or presenting your work to a board of directors, self-distancing by creating an alter ego may help. Just as it helped Beyoncé and Adele to perform on top of their abilities, BBC Worklife explains.
Share or discuss: LinkedIn Facebook X (Twitter) Permalink
Coliving has been a trending buzzword among freelancers, but as a business, it is way more challenging than running a coworking place. For all entrepreneurs interested in the subject, Peter Fabor has created an honest Coliving guide 📖
Share or discuss: LinkedIn Facebook X (Twitter) Permalink
Despite a sensational title, 100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How To Find Them by Christopher Mayer turns out to be a well-researched book for value-seeking individual investors. If you favor stock picking over index funds in your portfolio, get it, and you won’t be disappointed.
Note: This is not a get-rich-fast book, quite the opposite. Any strategy based on the author’s conclusions would require hard work and lots of patience.
Share or discuss: LinkedIn Facebook X (Twitter) Permalink
Meet the last guest speaker of our first-ever online event Freelance Friends, this Friday, June 25, from 2 to 7 pm:
Jan de Graaf is a German business consultant for European trade with Asia and especially China, where he has spent 15 years. Jan will share his freelance journey and describe the rich cultural background of his successful freelance business.
Do you want to be part of this, for free, and make friends with us? Send us an email titled I AM IN to hello@freelancing.eu — and you’re in! 💌
Share or discuss: LinkedIn Facebook X (Twitter) Permalink