Have you ever heard of an over-responsive client? Neither had I until I met this one. Now I have fodder for a new post on the Creative Freelancer Blog. I also recently posted an item about my Friday afternoon victories. What’s not to love about Fridays? Follow this link to read all of my posts…
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Grieving for Client Relationships
Hey, everyone! I’m guest blogging over at the Creative Freelancer blog. My latest post, Grieving for Client Relationships, is over there, just waiting to be read. Go on, click on the link. You know you want to.
Seeking Balance: The 3rd 40
A couple of things happened this week, the sorts of things that made me quickly realize that I need a plan of attack. The first was that I got a new client with a fairly significant project that will keep me hopping for the next three months. This is fantastic, of course. New clients are…
All or Nothing
Freelance work is inherently cyclical. Colleagues in corporate jobs often ask if the cycles make me crazy. The answer is no, but that answer has come with time and experience. Rather than fight the cycles and worry about when they will start or end, I’ve learned to relax and ride it out. January is a…
Managing Growth
This year, something extraordinary and quite unexpected happened to me, something that all conventional wisdom said was impossible: My 2009 earnings will equal 2008. The recession came with all sorts of dire predictions about failure, how businesses like mine wouldn’t be able to survive this downturn. I’ll admit that even I had my doubts. Four…
Summer Doldrums
It doesn’t matter if you work on-staff or if you work as a freelancer, summer is the slow time. Just try to find all four people that need to review and approve your project once their kids are out of school for the summer. Things languish in review for weeks, if not months, only springing…
How Do You Edit?
“How do you edit?” he asked. Lately, prospective clients have been asking some interesting questions, often questions that I’ve never really thought of answers for. This was one I had to ponder. Aside from my eye catching the usual typos and punctuation errors, there’s something strange that happens when I sit down to do a…
Knowing When to Shut Up and Listen
At a recent lunch, a client asked me what, aside from my talent for writing, was my most important skill. I answered without hesitation: listening. I’m a freelance writer. The best part about it is that I know something about almost everything. The worst part about it is that I’m no longer an expert in…
Agile Writing
In a recent conversation with a friend, I realized that there’s a name for the way I work: agile writing. Quite unintentionally, I’ve developed a writing style that mirrors agile software development: create a preliminary draft and get feedback early and often for quick delivery of a quality product that meets customer goals. Clients often…