📰 Dev.to · Alfred P

Fixed-fee pricing is better for clients and can be better for you than hourly billing. Clients get...

Projects fail. Not always completely. But sometimes a deliverable misses the mark significantly. A...

Running a freelance business alone has a structural problem that is easy to overlook until it becomes...

Recurring revenue is the closest thing to stability that exists in freelancing. A retainer with a...

A portfolio case study is the most effective piece of content a freelancer can produce. Not a blog...

Having more work than you can take immediately is a better problem than having no work at all. A...

Most freelance project disputes are not about the quality of the work. They are about misaligned...

If proposals are going out and not coming back, the proposals are the problem. Not necessarily your...

The difference between a discovery call that converts and one that does not is rarely about your...

The portfolio paradox stops more would-be freelancers than any skill gap. You need clients to build...

The freelancers whose businesses seem effortless from the outside are almost never effortless from...

Passive income is one of the most misrepresented concepts in the freelance world. The YouTube...

Most new freelancers underinvest in financial hygiene until something forces them to invest in it: a...

I am going to describe a client without naming them. They paid on time. They were not rude. The work...

Your first freelance rate was probably too low. Not because you were wrong about your skills....

Setting boundaries sounds like therapy language. In a freelance business it is just good...

You do not need a 40-page business plan. You need one page that answers the questions that actually...

Most freelancers hate marketing because they have confused it with selling. Selling is asking...

Building a freelance business while employed is genuinely hard. Not because the work is difficult....

"Your quote is a bit higher than we expected." Every freelancer hears this eventually. Most...

Losing a client to a cheaper competitor stings. It stings more six months later when that client...

Late payments are one of the most common complaints in freelancing. Most of the time the invoice...

Most freelance project problems are visible before the project starts. The wrong clients, unclear...

My first real freelance client came from a former colleague. My next four came from that...