Are template contracts a legit way to do business as a freelancer?

February 13, 2020 in Project management, The Freelance Collective

Contracts are good for business. They’re the backbone of a successful and long-lasting freelance business. Most freelancers have presented their own contract to a client at least once. The main purpose of a contract is to protect the parties that enter it. Contracts consist of ‘clauses’ that lay out various details about the agreement such…

5 project management tools (to take your freelancing to the next level)

January 24, 2020 in Freelancers, Project management

Freelance means being free. You can do whatever you want, however you want – it’s got a lot going for it. But it’s also true that it not all peaches and cream. Freelancers are constantly juggling projects in different stages of completion. They need so much to keep in control and manage – from proposals…

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…

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…

How Qwilr can help your freelance business

September 3, 2015 in Project management, Uncategorized

Qwilr was built to combine the best of documents, with the best parts of the web. Today, the platform is being used by thousands of freelancers and creatives around the world — for quoting freelance work, developing proposals, creating resumes, and if you’d believe it, even writing fan-fiction. There is no limit to the way…

Top 5 project management tools you need

August 5, 2015 in Freelancers, Project management

Project management will make a real difference in your business and to your clients. It doesn’t have to be hard, as a single freelancer adding process to your business is easy. It also doesn’t have to include Gantt charts, fishbone charts and critical path analysis flow diagrams.