Managing your freelance business’s finances is an important part of staying in business. You might have heard of the expression “cash is king”. Well it is. The typical freelance project is paid on a Net 30 after you send the invoice. This can be a problem. This means that there is a long delay between …
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The Freelancer’s Guide to Long-Term Contracts Launched
After a busy couple of months, The Freelancer’s Guide to Long-Term Contracts is now done. To celebrate, all three versions will be ~20% off until 5pm PDT this Friday (2013-08-16). Eric Davis
Client Fears
This post is an except from my book The Freelancers Guide To Long-Term Contracts. If you want to learn how long-term contracts can stabilize your revenue, simplify your project scheduling, and make your business more enjoyable: make sure you check it out. One thing you might be asking yourself is, “If I’m just a solo …
Make selling your freelance services easier by using long term contracts
Most developers I know don’t enjoy marketing and selling. Some tolerate it but the vast majority of them hate selling and talking about themselves. I’m not going to try to defend marketing and selling here, maybe I’ll write about that later. Rather, I’d like to talk about a way to avoid selling or at least …
I’m Writing a Book: “The Freelancer’s Guide to Long-Term Contracts”
Advice I kept hearing at MicroConf 2013 for consultants was to build products that deliver your expertise to other businesses. These products could be a book like Rob Walling’s Start Small, Stay Small or a training course like Patrick McKenzie’s Lifecycle Emails. These let a larger audience benefit from your expertise than 1-on-1 teaching and …