Resident gadget guru and reviewer for The Times Jim Hatley shares some invaluable advice on disaster recovery for freelancers. If you have a home office and don’t have an IT helpdesk…
Who you gonna call?
If your entire operating system went belly-up on the first day of an important contract, how would you deal with it? Apologise, […]

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Free-roaming freelancer and technology evangelist Jim Hatley has been out and about putting a few mobiles phones through their paces finding out which work best for freelancers and contractors who need to stay connected on the road.
Time to upgrade? Two great mobile phones for freelancers
Mobile phones are big business, both for those who make them […]

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Look who’s talking: Monitoring buzz on the web
As a freelance community builder and co-director of TheWerks web-socialite Rosie Sherry offers advice on monitoring your brand and filtering out the noise.
Five sites for monitoring your brand online
There’s no denying that the web holds huge amount of information. Most of it irrelevant to you or I, however […]

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Freelancing: The Choice of Champions
If you’re thinking of starting contracting or going freelance then you need to take a serious look at the opportunites and options available to you. Freelance Advisor and Web Marketing Consultant Leif Kendall tells us that freelancing is not the easy option… but it is the most rewarding option.
Want to become […]

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Compelling Content - Part 2
Brainstorming: Your ideal reader or customer
A two-part series from freelance copywriter Kath Burke. In part one, Kath explained how you can understand why people buy you. Part two explores how to use brainstorming as an exercise in focusing on the content that really matters before you put pen to paper.
Great writing […]

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Create compelling content your clients will crave
In this 2-part series freelance copywriter and content consultant Kath Burke says the secret of writing great web marketing copy is in the preparation. Before you put pen to paper, you need to explore your clients’ deeper concerns and needs.
Ah. If only you could magic up the perfect web […]

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Gorgeous gadget: the Sony VAIO AW11XU/Q

Life on the road can be tough. The contents of a suitcase are certainly no match for the comforts of home, but if you pick and choose your gear with a little care it doesn’t have to be all bad. We all need cutting-edge technology for the work that we […]

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Mark Kirby’s piece on Time-Boxing for Freelancers this week got me thinking about all the time I could waste trying to find the perfect tools for the job. The irony of this is not lost on anyone I’m sure so, rather than waste unnecessary time on “productivity p0rn”, I thought I’d take Mark’s advice to […]

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Continuing our series on how an economic crisis might affect freelancers and contractors, Freelance Advisor and Web Marketing Consultant Leif Kendall gives us five freelancing tips for surviving in a recession.
Before I tell you how to literally work your way through a recession, or a credit crunch, or whatever we’re experiencing, I would like to […]

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With gloomy forecasts and images of screens full of flashing red numbers dominating the newspages we’ve been keeping a eye on what the state of the economy means to freelancers and contractors. And it’s not all bad news! Today Freelance Advisor and Web Marketing Consultant Leif Kendal gives us three reasons why freelancing might actually be a very good option during a recession.

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