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GetColeman.com is arguably the most original freelance copywriter’s website in the world. On its homepage, you can choose between Less and More Hard Sell by moving the slider. Being witty and smart usually works in personal marketing, but Joe Coleman totally nailed it 💥
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“Freelancers are likely to find themselves in more demand in the future, with 47% of hiring managers more likely to hire independent professionals,” writes Elaine Pofeldt in her insightful and data-packed Forbes article The Coming Boom For Freelancers.
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If you need to read ONE book about freelancing, let it be The Freelance Way — the top-rated business book for freelancers on Goodreads. It presents the best available and fully up-to-date freelance know-how, compiled from hundreds of quality sources, including surveys, the latest market data, advice from world-class experts, as well as real-life experiences and stories from hundreds of professionals in different fields and countries. All this makes the book highly relevant to freelancers worldwide.
The Freelance Way is available globally as a paperback or ebook. In Europe, you can purchase it on Amazon UK, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, and Czechia.
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Boutique talent agencies are often better than huge automated freelance platforms at matching qualified independent professionals to their clients. Jon Younger explains why in his Forbes article Small Can Be Beautiful, giving the Danish We-cruit, French Sneakers & Jackets, and American LifeSciHub as three examples.
There’s a growing number of curated freelance platforms and talent agencies operating on European markets. You can find most of them in our list of 250+ national resources.
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Freelancers L♥VE their freedom to work wherever they want. Digital nomads aside, the less-known arts residencies enable creatives (like writers or artists) to draw inspiration by going places. Better yet, there’s Res Artis, a worldwide network of arts residencies to explore.
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Let’s bet you’re going to bookmark this: Photopea is a web app for quick photo edits and graphic design, that runs directly in a browser and offers its full functionality for free (with ads sidebar).
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Working from home can take on many forms. One of them is placing a cabin (prefabricated mini-house) in your backyard or garden. However, prices are ranging wildly, from €4,500 to $100K, so Peter Fabor has gathered the available options on his website Epic Monday.
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This is where creatives learn about doing business: Renowned creative coach (and poet) Mark McGuinness is launching Season 5 of his 21st Century Creative podcast for freelance artists and creative entrepreneurs. The full archive has 42 episodes already. Mark has also added a new level of support for listeners by offering a paid membership with some exclusive content for only $1/episode through Patreon (the go-to membership platform for creators, who have collected more than $1 billion there since 2013).
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Have you received any business inquiries, offers, or questions from colleagues over an instant messenger recently? If you’re like most freelancers, you certainly did. Instant messaging (IM) is booming in work-related communications, and it’s not going away, quite the opposite. Nowadays, voice and video messages are trending. The rise of IM is raising some serious security concerns, though. These messages can be easily tracked and analyzed in-house by the platform provider, and often are, for various reasons. You may not be aware of it, but Messenger, WhatsApp, iMessage, Skype, even Viber and Telegram, all have security issues. There’s no perfect and 100% safe solution, but if you consult the Secure Messaging Apps Comparison website, some instant messengers are much safer than others (Signal, to name just the one we use in our team). The site hasn’t been updated for a while, so take it a mere introduction to the subject. A good practice would perhaps be to keep on using any general IM for non-confidential chats but switching to a safer channel with your clients and teams.
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Good backup software should be secure, reliable, fast, affordable, automated, and continuous. For freelancers, CrashPlan For Small Business is arguably the best choice, offering unlimited cloud storage and encrypted HDD backups for $10 per month per computer. (We've been using CrashPlan in our team for years, and we love it.)
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