(This is a guest post by Mojca Mars, a speaker at a past Double Your Freelancing Conference.) “I’m afraid we can no longer keep you on as an employee,” said…

(This is a guest post by Kurt Elster, a speaker at the upcoming Double Your Freelancing Conference. Don’t have your ticket yet? Buy your ticket while they’re still available and…

One of my first marketing experiments after opening up my agency’s office in downtown Norfolk, Virginia was to setup a Facebook ad campaign advertising our web design and development services. Fast forward a few…

In this article, I’m going to open up the kimono and give you an inside look at a conversation I had last week with someone in one of my Mastermind…

There are plenty of ways for freelancers to get project leads: job marketplaces like oDesk or Elance, referrals from past clients, people finding your website through a Google search, and…

Back when I was jumpstarting my fledging agency, I used to attend a lot of events. Between what I could find on Meetup.com and the events hosted by the Chamber…

When I attended my first Chamber of Commerce meeting, I really felt like I was a fish out of water. I came in shorts… and a t-shirt. I didn’t have…

I was browsing through Hacker News and saw that Patrick McKenzie had mentioned me in a thread where “adyus” asked: “However, one thing that I still haven’t figured out is…

This is a guest post by Josiah Choy from KickoffLabs. KickoffLabs provides landing page and email marketing solutions. The hardest part for many freelancers and consultants is generating new business….

I hosted a training seminar to teach local businesses how to improve the number of leads & sales driven by their Web sites. I charged the 5 attendees $250 each,…