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.

How a New Mom Keeps Up Her Networking

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Designer (and new mama), Lidia Varesco Racoma, adjusts her networking to her new work/life situation and finds new and creative ways to keep networking. Continue reading

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Two More Post-CFC To Do Lists

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Two more creative freelancers share their post-CFC "action items" to motivate you and perhaps serve as models. Continue reading

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Are you running a business from the sticks?

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Highlights from a Morning Roundtable Discussion at CFC 2012: Out in the Sticks: the Joys & Challenges of Running a Design Biz in a Small Community. Continue reading

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Running a business and a family?

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Pam Saxon is looking forward to leading a roundtable at the Creative Freelancer Conference on how to balance being a solopreneur with having your family at home. Continue reading

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Making the jump to an office

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Creative freelancer, Lidia Varesco Racoma, just moved out of her home office and shares tips for taking that next step in growing your business. Continue reading

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Feel like wallowing? Try this instead...

Web copywriter and CFC-veteran, Deidre Rienzo, tells of how she started to feel sorry for herself, then got a grip instead. Continue reading

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Reading already read emails again?

More from one of my favorite blogging freelancers, Neil Renicker, of Renicker Studio, based in Tipp City, Ohio, on the topic of productivity! When you’re driving in the dark, in the pouring rain, and traffic in the other lane is … Continue reading

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A Time Management System That Never Crashes

Laurel Black shares her paper-based time management system that prevents her from over-booking and never crashes. Continue reading

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Productivity and 100-Calorie Snack Packs

As a self-employed writer, I understand that the more I work, the more I get paid. At the same time, I can find myself tempted by distractions. So over the years, I’ve developed a number of tricks to help me shore up my willpower and stay focused on what I need to do, such as.... Continue reading

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Buy Local / Shoot Local

“Buy Local” meant that we need to utilize the world down the road from us. This keeps our local industry strong and helps reduce environmental impact by transporting goods unbelievable distance. Continue reading

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