A freelance income can seem lucrative to anyone who hasn’t tried to live without a steady paycheck for a while. At any one time, freelancers can see more money come into their account than those with traditional jobs see in several months. Unfortunately, this deceptive extra income...

“The sky is falling! The sky is falling!” This is how some people feel about the job outlook in the economy right now; But probably not web designers or web developers. If Chicken Little (the one credited for the line in the popular children’s fable) would have crafted a website to...

As if you needed another file format to add to your repertoire, the WWF (no, not that one… that’s WWE now), the World Wildlife Foundation, has created a new one for you and they’ve added their own twist to it. It’s pretty simple, really. When a file has a .wwf extension, it behaves...

Holly DeWolf is a freelance author and illustrator based in eastern Canada. Like many graduates, after school she was left with a solid education in her practice, but not a lot of education or experience in running a business as a creative person. Since then, she has begun her freelancing...

In our last post, 6 Freelancing Rules to Keep You Sane, we outlined an initial 6 rules that are necessary for a successful freelance business, and one that will also help keep you sane and to not work your fingers to the bone. In this post, we’ll continue with our final 6, to make a...

There are tons of little things that really tick us off while running a freelance business, and some seem never ending and a constant factor of stress. We trade this is for the common stress factors of a traditional job, although we sometimes get so sick of our own complaints that we...