Resources

The four golden rules of freelancing:

#1: Never base your hourly rate on employee rates (or on having a 40 hour work week).

More on this:

• Are you making one of these rate-setting mistakes?
• What if your dream income really is out of reach? How to find out + what to do
• If you want to learn more about how to do per-project fees correctly: Free Yourself From the Hourly Trap with Productized Services
• Making sure one of your clients isn’t less profitable than the others: How to do a client audit and calculate what your true hourly rate is

#2: Always make time for your business.

More on this:

• Making time to work on everything as a freelancer
• 3 Strategies to Help You Run Multiple Businesses (Without Losing Your Mind)

#3: Streamline everything you can.

More on this:

• How to keep your email inbox from eating your brain
• How to create client follow up systems (and client follow up templates)
• How to get to inbox zero faster (the best free tools + apps)
• Empty funnel? How to get more clients, stat
• How to write better emails
• The Systems + Streamlining and App Review archives at Bombchelle

#4: The human brain sucks at time estimates – plan accordingly.

More on this:

• Bad time estimates are killing your profits
• Avoid scope creep by managing your projects better