Freelance Freedom #130

Seasonal Myths About Freelancing
Every year, around this time, I get an email or two from someone wanting to know how to make a few bucks freelancing in time for the holiday season. I generally try to point these folks towards other options, although it does get me thinking about why someone would turn to freelancing for seasonal work. There are more than a few myths that seem to pop up, making freelancing seem like a viable option for seasonal work. While debunking these myths shouldn’t scare off any freelancers

Leveraging Your Blog to Promote Your Services
If you’re like many creative freelancers, you have a blog. And being the diligent type that you are, it’s updated at least once a week. But here’s the bad news: There are a lot of other blogs out there. Which means that you’ll have to work hard to make yours stand out. Oh, no. Those two four-letter words: w-o-r-k h-a-r-d. They beg the question, what should you be hard at work on? Here are six suggestions: 1. Don’t just cre

DMCA: Is It a Muzzle or Security?
Since the advent of the Internet as a wide-open information conduit there has been a lot of worry amongst legislators, media corporations, and others with a stake in preventing content piracy to create a law that would add teeth to copyright for electronic communications. The long discussions, lobbying, and heated arguments between interested parties were loud and public. The end result was the passing of a complex law called The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA. DMCA wa

Freelance Radio, Episode 39: A Typical Freelance Day
The latest episode of Freelance Radio, the official FreelanceSwitch podcast, is now available! This episode, the panel (John Brougher, Dickie Adams, Kristen Fischer and Von Glitschka) talks about a typical day. Subscriptions to the podcast are available via iTunes and an archive of all podcasts will appear in the podcast section. We hope you enjoy it! Subscribe to Freelance Radio on iTunes Yo