Category Archives: Work Life Balance

If your freelance business becomes successful, you’ll need start thinking about time management techniques. Get tips and advice about creating work life balance from other creative freelancers, who have figured out how to keep work from taking over their personal time, and from time management experts. Whether your business is freelance writing, freelance graphic design or freelance illustration, you have to learn how to create balance in order to build a successful long-term business.

Celebrating a full year of accountability

Copywriter, Tom Tumbusch, and his accountability buddies are achieving their goals, wasting less time and feeling more relaxed and confident thanks to their monthly meeting. Continue reading

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Challenges of Parenting While Freelancing

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Podcast with Jim Krause on work/life balance and how to be a (single) parent and a freelancer simultaneously. Continue reading

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Need Some Inspiration Right Now?

Damien Golden

Damien Golden on her favorite Super Bowl 2013 ads as a way for creative pros to glean inspiration -- when you need it most. Continue reading

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Freelancer: Are you trying to run a pseudofirm?

Proud creative freelancer, Tom Tumbusch of WordStreamCopy, debunks myths about corporate clients who want "agencies" instead of independents or freelancers. Continue reading

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How To Be Sick In A Professional Way

Damien Golden

Creative freelancer, Damien Golden, just got over the flu and reminds us not to be a control freak. Take time off but do it in a professional way. Here's how. Continue reading

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Stressed Out Already?

Freelancers Bible

The 4 stressors of freelancing and 7 stressbusters to get 2013 off to a strong start (from The Freelancer's Bible by Sara Horowitz) Continue reading

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Freelance Life Laws from "The Freelancer's Bible" (part 2)

Freelancers Bible

Yes, in 2013, you can take control of your work/life and make it balanced. Here are a few tips from The Freelancer's Bible by Sara Horowitz. Continue reading

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Freelance Life Laws from "The Freelancer's Bible"

Freelancers Bible

Want to start 2013 off with some solid work/life balance? Follow these "freelance life laws" from Sara Horowitz's "Freelancer's Bible." Continue reading

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Women Working From Home? It Must Be Nice

Alisa Bonsignore

From copywriter, Alisa Bonsignore, a rant and a question about the perceptions of women and men who work from home. Continue reading

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Do you eat like a "starving artist?"

Bryn Mooth

Food writer, Bryn Mooth, shares tips for what to eat to fuel your brain for creativity. Continue reading

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