How to manage the creative process as a freelancer

November 1, 2015 in Project management, Tips and tools

Some days, freelancing can make you feel like that song – you know the one where you’re on top of the world looking down on creation (or staring over it as you flat lay your creation). Other days, becoming a bear and hibernating for the winter (a.k.a the client from hell period), sounds like the…

Why collaborating online is the way of the future for freelancers

October 28, 2015 in Tips and tools

The Hunger Games is movie about a dystopian ‘game’ where players fend for themselves to survive. ‘May the odds be ever in your favour’ is a classic line from the film, because being alive in this game is based on luck as much as it is on skill. This could very well have been the…

5 benefits of co-working spaces

October 20, 2015 in Co-working spaces, Freelancers

As all freelancers know, the nature of work is changing. It’s no longer somewhere we go, but something we do. There’s no doubt that there’s a definitive shift away from the traditional styles of work, such as the nine-to-five working day and the fixed desk. With more people demanding flexibility than ever before, companies have…

Why freelancers shouldn’t be afraid to play with the big boys

October 19, 2015 in Freelancers, The Freelance Collective, Tips and tools

One of my favorite films is Devil Wears Prada, because that kind of highly intense workplace always seemed so unreal. I’d watch that film, and feel instantly relieved that as a professional project manager, I had never taken the big creative agency route in my career. I was relieved because this meant I avoided those…

Why I love freelancing on-site and from my home office

October 12, 2015 in Freelancers, Tips and tools

Like most freelancers, I chose to freelance for the flexibility and freedom. For me, that flexibility and freedom comes with a price of isolation, loneliness and disconnection from people. While there are great online communities for freelancers to bounce ideas off each other, ask for advice and ‘hang out’, there is a part of me…

Why freelancers love Sydney’s co-working spaces

October 8, 2015 in The Freelance Collective, Tips and tools

Co-working spaces are emerging as a bit of a secret weapon for Australia’s creative freelancers. Each day, these creative types venture out into an office-like environment near their home to rub shoulders with others, get some creative inspiration, pick up new freelance projects, get an instant social life, be motivated by others, find new ideas…

5 hacks so freelancers can work from the beach

October 1, 2015 in Freelancers, Tips and tools

Freelancers absolutely must be able to work anywhere. Everywhere. Anytime. It’s one of the reasons we’re freelance, right? Location is irrelevant to the service you can provide. As a project manager just outside of Sydney, I’ve been on 5-way Skype calls sitting in a carpark from my car. I’ve accessed client files while at the…

Why freelancing enables me to do my best work

September 30, 2015 in Freelancers, Tips and tools

I accidentally fell into freelancing before I even knew that’s what it was called. It happened after the life-changing event that’s called ‘motherhood’. I was looking for something to keep my brain active while on maternity leave. I always loved to write and used to moan the lack of time and my partner goes, “Why…

How to be heard as a freelancer

September 21, 2015 in Freelancers, PR, Tips and tools

It’s a pretty isolating gig being a freelancer. The water cooler conversations are few and far between given most days you’re in a home office space, where many freelance writers and other creatives tend to sit at a desk. Alone. Work does not come pouring through that laptop screen by osmosis, sad to say. Being…

My top 5 tips for juggling several freelance projects at once

September 17, 2015 in Freelancers, Project management, The Freelance Collective, Tips and tools

Once upon a time I used to have a manageable capacity of freelance work while working a full-time job. Then, after having a baby I decided I wasn’t going to go back to a 9-5 job and I traded it in for an amazing life of freelancing with considerably more clients. Now, if you’ve being…

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