How Freelancers Can Benefit from Coworking
When you’re a freelancer, one of the greatest challenge you’ll ever face is solitude – where you have no luxury of brainstorming ideas with others. Every now and then, you may find yourself bored with your home office and you’re itching to work somewhere. Working from home may be the best thing that can happen to a freelancer… and the worst as well. This is why we see plenty of folks with their tablets, netbooks and laptops in coffee shops all over town. Is it high time to ditch the caffeine high and work with like minds?
Last time, I’ve written a post on the 
There’s a saying that goes, ” Out of sight.. Out of mind ” and this holds true with your former clients. Freelancing is like a dating game where you get to meet new people everyday and you may keep a list of old-time clients, but if you’re clueless on how to rekindle the connection that mattered – it may be just another name soon to be forgotten. Just how do you keep in touch with your old clients? 
When it comes to 
The issue of collecting payment from clients is something freelancers don’t really like to talk about. But a lot of us have been stiffed, no matter how we don’t like to admit. Here’s the scenario: You agree to work for a dream project with a decent budget and you have a wonderful client or project manager who tells you not to worry about things. That person may even send you a deposit as a sign of goodwill… until the next payment due date comes. What will you do if your payment is past due? 
What can be worse than failure? It’s not admitting that you are the very cause of it. If it’s your first time subcontracting work to a team of freelance experts from locations A to Z, know that it takes more than effective communication and 
Having worked on freelance bidding sites three years to date, payment protection is something that remains a major concern for many freelancers online. If the system were all but perfect, then, we wouldn’t read countless stories where ‘smart’ clients manipulated the system for their own good. Many had been burned and these scrupulous businesses are out there to lay their hands on their next victim. What makes you feel you’re really protected on the Web? 
Have you ever wished you have that one happy client who pays for your freelancing service for life? You may want to sing ‘This is our fate, I’m Yours’ to the song of Jason Mraz as you go work in your quest for this 
One thing I’ve noticed a lot in my years of using Twitter is that people love to retweet inspirational quotes to their fellow tweeps. No matter how busy you are a s a freelancer, taking time to stop for a while to savor the meaning of a quote is worth a daily habit to live by. What can be a more perfect time to appreciate the beauty of words than this season of Easter ( Passover, Eastertide or whichever name it’s called ). 
Information overload is such a common thing these days and all you have to do is type in your search, where you get to see millions of results from Google. Have you always wanted to get the latest news that you’re interested in? Though RSS ( short for Really Simple Syndication ) has been around as early as 1999, many freelancers are not taking advantage of RSS feed readers and news aggregators that let you access info, just the way you want them, saving you time by presenting you a simple feed or summary of all the contents you’ll ever need. 
