Linkswitch! The Best of the Freelance Web
Danny Wen at Harvest, a popular time-tracking tool for freelancers, has offered a $10 discount on subscriptions to the service and its new integrated invoicing tool — for Freelance Switchers only. The code FSHARVESTSPRING08 will take $10 off the first month for anyone who upgrades to a paying plan, which should prove a nifty saving for anyone who was considering making the switch.
Creative Briefing is a new-ish blog producing some very fine content for the self-employed: 13 ways to liven up your work-at-home routine and 10 things you can learn from Gordon Ramsay about running a business are standouts.
For those of us who like to save pennies on every aspect of our business (it all counts!), Lifehacker has a DIY guide to printing your own business cards.
Our very own Samuel Ryan recommends that every freelancer set guidelines for turning down work.
On a productivity tip, Geekpreneur shares 42 ways to meet your deadlines and make your goals.
Kick-butt freelance designer Edwin Toffslie shares tips on how a designer’s resume/CV layout can help score them a job. This guide also comes with some very slick templates you can use.
Freelance Finance is a new blog covering personal finance for freelancers, and they’re responsible for this highly practical guide: 10 ways freelancers can save money on cell phones.
Graphic designers ahoy! Michael Huggins shares his top six tips on how to get the most money out of your design projects.
Super-freelancer Jon Phillips prepares us for anywhere freelancing by telling us what to do before you take your business on the road.
If you’re looking for some new reading/procrastination material, Bootstrapper has amassed a list of the top 100 freelancing blogs. It’s no surprise that most of the blogs fall into the ‘useful for freelancers’ rather than for freelancers category, but there are a few worthwhile finds here.
Great Stuff!
Thank you so much!
Some great information there, thanks
Thanks guys — some extra reading for a rainy day
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Hey Skellie, thanks a bunch for the link and mention (super-freelancer? hehe) I really liked Samuel’s post about turning work down. Will go read that post on LH, I need new business cards
Wow, great resources in this article! Couldn’t have come at a better time either. FreelanceSwitch has been more than helpful with great articles and resources like these. Keep ‘em coming.
Great stuff as usual!
Thanks for this list, really enjoyed 100 freelancing blogs.
Question: Why are you guys Faking Your Subscriber Count? Me and a couple of friends unsusbscribed … refreshed and subscribed back. The count should have droped 3 and added afterwords 3. This is not so nice of you guys. I just read this http://rubiqube.com/faking-your-subscriber-count-is-it-worth-it/#comment-45 and i figured it out. So what are you guys gonna do about it?
I mean to say … i like freelanceswitch very much.And i enjoy reading it, but why do you guys fake the subscriber count? Is it worth it? Just to justify the 3000$ / month ads?
Maybe it’s cached?
Thanks Skellie! You’re a peach!
Maybe its not a live number… they could very well just update it every week/month or so.
Relative to the post though – Anyone out there using Harvest? I’m trying it out, and can’t decide if I like it better than FreeAgentCentral. It’s a few bucks cheaper.. but that’s about it from what I’ve seen.
@drake They’re not faking the subscriber count, see this: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/freelanceswitch
Feedburner updates everyday (around 5am for me, I’m in Montreal), so I guess they’re just displaying their ‘average’ subscriber count, which is really fine I think, they still got over 23K subscribers
Thank you!
Hey… pretty nice article. Thank you
Thanks for the great list and the link love Skellie!
Thank you for the fantastic read!