The Ultimate List of Freelancing Resources 51-75

By Joshua on January 30 2009

The Ultimate List of Freelancing Resources is back with 25 more great links to help you launch or improve your freelance career.

1. Coffee Break: Your Best Piece of Advice
   This article from FreelanceSwitch is a simple question: What's your best piece of freelancing advice? The number and quality of answers is impressive.
2. 6 Keys to Getting Paid for Being You: An Anti-Career Guide
   We all know that we can get paid for just being cogs in a machine. But what does it take to get paid for being yourself?
3. Beating the Famine Blues
   Freelancers and other independent professionals often have trouble with a cycle of "feast and famine." Kristen Fischer shows how to keep going through the famine.
4. Calculating Hours – the Client Factors
   Pricing projects can be difficult at the best of times, but what about when a client is particularly hard to deal with?
5. Advice from Coudal on how to transition from client work to products
   How can we break the connection between our time and our incomes? This article compiles advice from a small business that has managed to do just that.
6. The secret to making money online
   David Heinemeier Hansson (creator of Ruby on Rails and a founder of 37signals) completely trashes the "get bought out by Google" mentality and explains how you can start making money online right away. This is my favorite business presentation of all time.
7. Let's Play a Game — What's Your Home Business?
   Freelancers and business owners tend to assume that other people understand what it is they do. Unfortunately, that's often not the case. Naomi suggests a few questions to help you make it clear.
8. Shane outlines his approach to sales, which includes a healthy dose of followthrough. A great introduction to selling well.
9. The Violent Truth Of Opportunity
   Think that there isn't enough opportunity out there for your business? Think again. There are always opportunities. The question is if you will seize them.
10. Why bother having a resume?
    Seth Godin contemplates the resume. His conclusion? Be remarkable and forget the resume.
11. Start a Business, Not a Startup
    Jason from 37Signals explains why tech businesses should be businesses, not startups.
12. 14 Defenses Against The Anti-Entrepreneurial
    Most freelancers have run into friends or family who seem bent on tearing down their entrepreneurial spirit. But how to respond? Skellie outlines 14 defenses to keep you sane.
13. Being Lightweight: Working with Clients
    Common Craft (the guys behind the In Plain English videos) talk about what they do to keep their business lightweight, particularly when working with clients.
14. IttyBizzy Let's Get Dizzy – Insanity in Home Business
    In this guest post, Nick Cernis argues that being just a little crazy could be your greatest asset.
15. Three Sure-Fire Ways To Receive A Killer Referral From Your Clients
    For freelancers a good referral is pure gold. Dave Navarro outlines how to get referrals that work.
16. Word of Mouth Marketing: Thank your referrers
    Want great word of mouth? Then maybe you should be thanking the people who give it to you.
17. It doesn't have to be all or nothing with a startup
    David at 37signals tackles the idea that starting a great business means you have to be willing to put in ridiculous hours and run it on caffeine and ramen noodles.
18. I just can't help but to…
    Scott (the guy with the nametag) suggests that the key to success is figuring out what it is that you just can't help doing, then working things out from there.
19. The Demand Will Come…
    When you're just starting out, it's often hard to resist lowering your price or standards to land a gig, but Ross says it isn't worth it; the demand will come.
20. Starting a Business: Advice from the Trenches
    The illustrious A List Apart takes a break from posting about web design to discuss what it takes to start up a business.
21. Do You Have Entrepreneurial ADD?
    Do you have a hard time sticking with one project at a time? Are you constantly coming up with awesome new business ideas? Congratulations. You may have entrepreneurial ADD.
22. Should You Turn Off Your Telephone?
    Are you at the mercy of clients, family, friends, and whoever else decides to call? Perhaps it is time to turn off the phone.
23. A Practical Guide to Earning Six Figures: Changing Your Mind
    Part 1 of a series from Skellie on what it takes to earn six figures. This post is all about taking a look at the numbers and working backwards to determine what you need.
24. A Practical Guide to Earning Six Figures: Reboot Your Career
    Part 2 of the series. This post covers how to reshape your career to meet the standards you determined in part 1.
25. A Practical Guide to Earning Six Figures: Re-inventing What You Have
    Part 3 of the series. This post covers how to move beyond the pay for time and pay for project models to where you can earn money based on demand rather than your available resources.

Have other great freelancing resources? Post them in the comments!