Should You Specialize?

It's no secret that experts that specialize in a particular niche tend to make more money. It can be easy to think of how you pick a specialization and your...

Keep Clients For Life

Once you land a great client, it's important you try to keep them for life. Even when a job is completed successfully, losing a client can negatively affect your freelancing...

Avoiding Clients From Hell

You have heard the horror stories of the clients from hell. You know the clients who drive a freelancer to madness by making it impossible for them to succeed and...

The Truth About Freelance Platforms

Depending on who you ask, freelance marketplaces are either a blight or a miracle to the freelancing world. Not many people tell the truth about freelance marketplaces without being biased.Here...

Why Am I Writing?

This will be my 7th day writing and publishing daily (on Twitter as part of #ship30for30). While this is a massive accomplishment...

Tell Your Client They Are Wrong

If you told your client they were wrong, would you fear getting fired? Even with great clients, many of us have irrational feelings like this.Here is a secret about all...

When Are You Ready To Freelance?

Many people dream of the freedom being a freelancer brings. However, it can be a difficult journey, especially if you aren't ready for it.How do you know if you are...

Why my first freelancing journey failed

I was so excited when I made my first few hundred dollars freelancing. Thinking of what a great start I had, I saw dollar signs in my head and a...

Letting go of perfectionism

Perfectionism is my number one enemy. It has been for a long time. Trying to be perfect always stopped me from creating my own content. It makes me question everything...

Becoming A Senior Developer Is Not About Your Code

I have talked to several great developers who write fantastic code with years of experience who were confused about why they were not a senior developer yet. Maybe you have...

Did you break your code today?

I broke my code today. And I'm glad I did.You might be wondering why I would be glad I broke my code? Wouldn't I want it to work? Am I...

Even Senior Developers Have Imposter Syndrome

If I told you I spent all day trying to figure out how to design the solution to a problem in a language I worked in every day and made...