40 Great Resources for a Complete Roadmap to Freelancing
An important activity that all freelancers need to do–no matter what their freelancing field may be–is to read and educate ourselves. Reading is a great source for freelancers to get motivated, inspired, and learns tips and techniques for becoming a better professional.
There are many excellent resources on the web dedicated to the Freelancer. From getting inspiration to dealing with creativity burnout, you will find it all on the internet; there is a lot of information spread throughout the nooks and crannies of the online world, covering all the topics you could possibly think of concerning freelancing.
I have organized a list of great articles that will be very helpful to freelancers, containing hundreds of tips, tools, and lessons. This article could certainly be called the freelancing treasure box because every item shared here is a gem to read.
Starting as a Freelancer
The route to starting out as a freelancer is made easy with the great advice from these articles.
1. How to Start a Freelance Company
2. A Comprehensive Guide to Starting Your Freelance Career
3. 25 Awesome Tips to Become a Successful Freelancer
4. What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Freelancing
5. Are You Just a Freelancer or a Successful One?
Freelancer Inspiration and Creativity
The essence of gathering inspiration and becoming creative could never be simpler with the tips shared below.
6. Ways for Freelancers to Get Inspiration for Design Work
7. 10 Ways to Stay Creative While Exhausted
8. 15 Ways to Improve Freelance Creativity
9. 10 Tips to Avoid a Creative Block
10. 25 Must Read Books for Designers and Freelancers
11. 33 Excellent "Out of the Box" Ways for Creatives to Find Inspiration
Freelancer Thoughts and Tips
What goes on in the mind of a freelancer? What are the best tips you can get from freelancers themselves? Check them out below!
12. Wise Words from Freelancer to Freelancer: 8 tips to Help You
13. 10 Blogs Every Freelancer Wish Existed
14. 20 Quick Tips for Aspiring Freelancers
15. How to Beef Up Your Freelancing Skills
16. Essential Habits of an Effective Professional Freelancer
17. Freelancing: How to Deal with Long Working Hours
18. 15 Tips for Freelancers: What to Do in Slow Days and Dry Times
19. Spring Cleanup: 30 Must Do Tasks for Freelancers and Creatives
Combating Freelancer Burnout
Feeling drained out? These great formulas will kick away your worst enemy: Fatigue!
20. Freelancer Burnout: 8 Great Tips to Overcome It
21. 10 Most Common Health Hazards of Freelancing
22. 30+ Things You Have to Know About Being a Freelancer
Freelancer’s Hunting Ground
Do you know where to get jobs? These are the places to get you started.
23. 50 Freelance Job Sites for Designers & Programmers: Best Of
24. Get Hired: 15 Best Job Boards for Freelancers
Promoting and Branding Yourself
Making yourself known is essential if you would like to gain more exposure and incoming business. Learn all about self-promotion in the articles below!
25. The Art of Branding Yourself and Your Freelancing Business
26. Marketing Rules and Principles for Freelancers
27. 15 Guerrilla Marketing Tips for Freelancers
Dealing with Clients
Is the client your best friend or worst enemy? Read about tips and ways on how you can better work with your clients.
28. Identifying and Dealing with Different Types of Clients
29. 12 Breeds of Client and How to Work with Them
30. How to Find Local Clients for Your Freelance Business
Freelancer’s Tools
Be more productive and make your life easier with these tools at hand!
31. Cool PC Apps: The Top 50 PC Applications for Freelancers
32. Ten Essential Items Every Freelance Office Needs
33. 90 Useful Freelance Tools
34. 14 Applications for Project Management and Collaboration
35. 30 Freelance Work Websites and Resources You Should Know
36. 5 Tools for Freelancers To Manage Their Time
Freelancer’s Failures
If all else fails, pick yourself up and learn from the mistakes you made. Better still, you can learn from other people’s mistakes without the need to go through them yourself.
37. Five Ways to Guarantee Your Failure as a Web Professional
38. 20 Reasons You Shouldn’t be a Freelancer
39. How to Overcome 20 Reasons Not to Become a Freelancer
40. Critical Mistakes Freelancers Make
Bonus: Freelancing-Related Articles on Six Revisions
Here are a few articles on Six Revisions not mentioned above that will be helpful to you in your journey into freelancing.
- A Beginner’s Guide to the Business Side of Freelancing
- Why Branding Yourself is Important
- 10 Ways Designers Can Earn More from Projects
- 20 Invoicing Tools for Web Designers
- Five Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Expand Your Design Business
- The Crowdsourcing Quagmire
Share Your Freelancing Wisdom!
Whether you are a seasoned freelancer or thinking of joining the ranks soon, these articles will surely give you all the motivation you need to start and remove any doubts you have about freelancing. Which gems have you particularly enjoyed above? Are you a seasoned freelancing pro with tips you can share with us? Are you starting your journey into freelancing? What important lessons have you learned?
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- Five Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Expand Your Design Business
- A Beginner’s Guide to the Business Side of Freelancing
- How to Start a Freelance Company
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About the Author
Aidan Huang is one of the editors-in-chief and author at Onextrapixel. He is also a web enthusiast and front-end web developer that strongly believes in sharing exciting and noteworthy information with the community. Grab their RSS feed and follow him on Twitter as @AidanOXP for more exciting information.
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30 Comments
abhishek
July 13th, 2010
Wow what a great collection of information. I read many article on this blog related to freelancing like : why you should not be a freelancer? , why you should be a freelancer? and now a collection of information. it gonna help me a lot in near future.
Russell Poulter
July 13th, 2010
WOW! Thats a whole lot of info! Great list thanks.
Dainis Graveris
July 13th, 2010
All important thins you have mentioned.. Thats awesome. A lot of inspiring info for every freelancer! :) Thanks for sharing this info!
Saad Bassi
July 13th, 2010
Really awesome Selection Aidan
Brian Jones
July 13th, 2010
Excellent list of resources. Thank you for such a great post and listing these helpful resources to start off in the right direction. Thank you you Aidan!
Sim0rn
July 13th, 2010
Awesome list! thanks
Jordan Walker
July 13th, 2010
Very thorough round up for freelancing.
julio
July 13th, 2010
Great post! very very useful
Carol
July 13th, 2010
A really great list – loads of reading! I will definitely be taking a closer look at the Promoting and Branding Yourself articles – thanks for sharing, excellent article as always, Aidan.
Jay Philips
July 13th, 2010
Great post, very detailed & helpful
Ted Thompson
July 13th, 2010
Excellent list of resources, very helpful. Thanks for sharing!
trendyTUTS
July 13th, 2010
Thta’s a really nice roundup Aidan :)
Jamie
July 13th, 2010
Cool! Now i know where to start on becoming a freelancer! Fantastic compilation! Thank you very much for making my life easier!!!
Peter29
July 13th, 2010
Great information and you are right that reading is the best resource of freelancing.
wildanr
July 13th, 2010
This is the best freelancing-related roundup article so far.. desparatly need for this. thx!!
Sahan
July 13th, 2010
Really useful stuff, Thanks
Farhan
July 14th, 2010
Excellent list of freelance resources. I have got some great information with these resources.
Waheed Akhtar
July 14th, 2010
Great resources Aidan. Thanks for including “30 Freelance Websites” from SmashingShare
Jesse
July 14th, 2010
Very detailed and helpful, thx.
Eko Setiawan
July 14th, 2010
Hi, this is a great post…really useful for me
Thanks…
Chinmai
July 14th, 2010
Great posting, really useful, lot of info thanks a lot
Aidan
July 15th, 2010
Hi Guys,
Thanks for all the comments. Hope that this article will hep those to become a better freelancer and prompt those who are thinking of becoming one.
Arden Peter
July 15th, 2010
This is a goldmine! and the ultimate freelancing guide I have ever came across with! Kudos
for compiling everything that’s essential. I would also like to share with you my special
find when it comes to project collaboration, I use Worketc (www.worketc.com) –it is handy and useful to freelancers when it comes to maintaining calendars, Gantt charts and
keeping track of your billable time. It has a lot of other features, but these I mentioned are what I see great for freelance artists like me. So might be useful to your readers as well.
Lornie
July 15th, 2010
Cool!!!! It will take me some time to read them all! Thanks for this wonderful find, aidan!!!
Ashish
July 17th, 2010
Hi,
Thanks for gathering lots of information in one article. This article is very useful for beginner as freelancer.
Adrian
July 19th, 2010
Wow! So much to look at here! Thanks for putting together such a great list of resources.
farid
September 8th, 2010
Excellent. it’s very helpfull for freelancer, who build career in freelancing.
Stephen Tiano
October 29th, 2010
Good article, as far as it goes. But it’d be really helpful for newbie (or prospective) freelancers to hear all about the commitment they need to make to promoting and marketing themselves and their business, as well as the time they should prepare to spend on these tasks as they get themselves established.
Bailiwicked Bairn
May 17th, 2011
COOL MAN!!! The amount of info you have is amazing! I really found it useful and interesting
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