How you answer this question will help you answer many other questions—from which business you’ll ultimately choose to how you’ll market your services and even to what you’ll tell people when they ask you, “what do you do?”
Your “why” to this question will also influence how long you’ll persist when times are rough and how […]

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If you’ve read Thomas Friedman’s book The World is Flat, you’d get the impression that most support jobs are moving overseas ,with the bulk going to India. However, in a turnabout, many companies are bringing their support personnel back to their home countries. The term coined for this movement is “homeshoring”.
Because of increased customer demands, […]

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In this last installment, I’m going to wrap up my series on freelance pricing techniques. Pricing, at least when you’re starting out, is more art than science.
It’s like planning a vacation itinerary in detail and, when you arrive, having to completely re-write it because things changed. The vacation isn’t ruined, it just changed. And so it […]

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I love researching freelance businesses. In fact, that’s really my intent for this blog—to help others find inspiring ideas so they can make the leap from employee to freelancer. When I’m snooping around for ideas, I use three criteria to determine if something warrants the freelance seal of approval.
I define a freelancer as anyone who […]

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The second question you should ask yourself is: What will my market bear?
Answering this question will often lead to wide and varied answers. You might think $65 per hour is good but what happens when you find out your biggest competitor charges $25 per hour? I see this happen time and again, even in highly […]

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