You probably noticed that your personal productivity depends on a variety of factors. One day you easily handle even the most complicated tasks. And another day, you cannot squeeze even a primitive essay out of your keyboard.

It all depends on your mood and energy level which you can easily control.
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This article is the first piece in a small series of articles, which will tell a little bit more about the customers, that we, as freelance writers, have to deal with on day-to-day basis.

You’ll also learn certain techniques, which will help you to work out a solution for a problematic situation with an inadequate customer.

Problematic Customer Profiles #1: The “Next Time” Customer

Freelance writers who operate their own writing businesses encounter many different types of customers through their everyday business dealings and soon become adept at customer service in addition to writing. Eighty per cent of the time, freelancers and their customers enjoy a smooth business transaction from job to job and a mutually beneficial business relationship.

However, in certain cases, a certain type of customer appears, one that causes trouble for various reasons. The communication skills of the freelance writer become paramount in these circumstances. What follows are a few communication tips for self-employed writers to continue to receive payment and referrals from even the most problematic clients. Read the rest of this entry »

“Many people quit looking for work when they find a job” explains the workers’ attitude towards jobs and their wish to work. However, this statement concerns mostly those jobs which do not correspond to the worker’s abilities and desires.

Such jobs bring money, stability and full day of work; however, they fail to provide workers with pleasure, self-realization and freedom of choice. These jobs refer mostly to the full-time employment and oppose to freelancing which consists in self-employment and dealing with various types of works.

Therefore, both freelancing and full-time jobs have advantages and disadvantages, the preference is given to freelance work in respect of its independence, freedom of choice and ample opportunities.

The first thing that becomes obvious while comparing full-time jobs with the freelance employment is the dependency. The workers are completely dependent on the employer when working for someone since they have no possibility to choose the working time, type of activity and place of performing it. Read the rest of this entry »

Can you assume freelancing to be a permanent job? Can you think over its advantages and opportunities? In fact, they are so vivid that it is possible to deem freelancing worthy of consideration and trying.

Preponderance of freelancing would not be so obvious if there was no full time job which highlights the possibilities and unrestricted potential of freelance activities.

Undoubtedly, freelancing is in pluses which can be hardly seen while working for someone at the office: they are flexibility of schedule and variety of activities.

Freelancing as unbound employment does not foresee any work schedules and obligations to work for a certain amount of hours a day or a week.

Consequently, it is up to the freelancer whether to choose hard working hours or to spend the whole day in relaxation and peace. Such flexible timetable means that freelancing provides the worker with additional free time which can be spent for personal or family matters. Moreover, it is much easier to work when you know that you can have rest after you finish certain task. Read the rest of this entry »

The newest article from our “Blast from the Past” series is here! With all these updates and upgrades we forgot about the min purpose of our blog: offering you awesome freelance writing content.

As you know, the series is dedicated to highlighting some of the best articles, which were previously posted on our blog. Our audience is growing and some of these articles were posted when we haven’t had a Facebook page, so we haven’t had that many channels to get the articles to our audience. We want to change that, because these articles truly deserve your attention

This time we are offering you a couple of articles posted in December of last year and in January 2011. Here we go: Read the rest of this entry »