This special bonus episode is a whistle stop tour of wisdom from a selection of the regular Live Q&As that we do in the Being Freelance Community. Enjoy answers from content marketing and SEO strategist Beth Gladstone, website designer Tom Garfield and conversion copywriter Prerna Malik.
Read MoreWhen Liz left uni, she was adamant she didn’t want to be a freelancer.
And yet here we are, via starting a stationery business and a family. A 9 year gradual process which has resulted in her switching from treating her freelancing like a hobby, to firmly treating it like a business.
Starting a podcast. Working with Adobe. Diversifying her income and having fun along the way.
This is Episode 300 of the Being Freelance podcast - recorded live in the Being Freelance Community - join us!
This is actually the fourth time Jackson’s been freelance. He’s not just quit jobs, he even once quit his own company.
But whereas the other times he was a ‘regular’ graphic designer, this time he’s spent a decade as a specialist: a lettering artist and calligrapher.
Posting to social media gained him an audience and commissions from around the world to his home in Brazil.
He’s since launched online courses, prints, fonts and NFT collections, building his reputation so he can work when he wants around his family. There’s no sign of him quitting this time around.
Read MoreIf Anna wanted to move her family out of the city, that meant first meant a shift in the way she worked.
Anna set out to prove she could match her past income in corporate/government comms, now as a freelance copywriter.
The seeds she planted in Melbourne are now bearing fruit from a farm in rural Victoria. She’s reaping the rewards - a business that feels good and that runs around her kids.
Alex trained as a musician. Self taught as a motion designer, he’s always been constantly trying to learn and improve.
Finding an internship in LA working on big Hollywood movies, he kept at it. Swapping socialising for learning, upskilling and sharing his self initiated projects on Instagram - he made a name for himself and studios started coming to him.
Now, post-pandemic, he’s trying to rebalance work-life. 4 day weeks are in. Snowboarding weekends are the norm. But it’s a slippery slope when you stop learning - the instability of freelancing is still keeping him on his toes.
Read MoreSpring 2020. A pandemic lockdown. Doesn’t sound like the ideal time to build a business, but Ayo had 20 years of marketing experience as her foundations. And a love of marketing that she’d put to good use on herself.
Specialising in the ‘built environment’ - think construction, engineers, architects - Ayo launched a podcast that raised her profile and brought her clients.
With award-winning added to her LinkedIn profile, she’s built something pretty special. Maybe we can learn by studying the blueprints.
Read MoreBrazilian creative Victoria was working in advertising in London when in 2013 she fancied a change.
A change of pace, country and language, and to help her do that she figured she’d go freelance in Spain.
After 3 years she took a job in an agency. Four years on she felt ready to freelance again. A pandemic and motherhood making the flexibility of working from home even more appealing.
Second time around Victoria felt much more prepared. In her positioning, her processes, her dealings with clients… in running her own business.
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