Hard Sell Your Soft Skills
You’re not a secretary, you’re a diplomat. You’re not in sales, you’re in solving people’s problems. Our job titles hide a hundred skills we have at our disposal wherever we need them. We use them [...]
What Should I Do?
I get asked this question A LOT. It comes up when I am mentoring freelancers, whether it’s in a formal capacity or, just a quick chat with someone who has reached out to me informally. [...]
Why Employees Are Wise to Adopt a Freelance Mindset
The most significant factor that sets freelancers apart from employees is that, as freelancers, we are responsible for finding work for us to do. There’s no boss sitting over us saying do this now, then [...]
Add Some Corporate Spice to Your Freelance Secret Sauce
You’ve ditched the corporate life, or maybe corporate life ditched you. Either way it’s behind you and you’ve gone freelance. It’s both scary and exciting in equal measure. Scary because that regular paycheque is a [...]
Resist the Temptation to Over Deliver
Overdelivering is one of those things that seems like a good idea at the time. You think to yourself ‘I’ll quote this new client for something that I think they’ll buy and then I’ll do [...]
Good luck in your exams!
Exam season is imminent in our house. My oldest is in Year 9 and he has end of year exams coming up and the youngest has 11+ in September. Nails are being bitten down [...]
