SPECIAL REPORT New freelancer platform promises to protect freelance gaming artists from AI scraping. Could the same be created for other freelancers? Freelance game artists often face exposure, pay, and security challenges. A new platform called Devoted Fusion aims to protect freelancers and simplify studio hiring. Plus, we share how authors including Sarah Townsend and […]

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Think pro wrestling is all theatrics? Think again, writes Santiago Steiner. Beneath the spectacle lies a shrewd marketing strategy. We reveal the surprising techniques freelancers can use to build a magnetic personal brand to attract amazing clients Pro wrestlers create larger-than-life characters. They stick to those characters, even in interviews or on social media. They […]

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This new book could help you avoid silly mistakes when you talk and write You’ve penned a pitch to a prospective client. You’ve hit the send button. It’s a week later and you are starting to think you’ve been ghosted. What if your pitch was spot on, but your choice of words or grammar made […]

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A Caunce O’Hara survey of 200 reveals exactly how freelancers are managing their time and how they could better develop the essential business building and life balancing tool of delegation. The most successful freelancers and small business owners often have one key skill in common: they know how to delegate. They scale their businesses quicker […]

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Freelancers and contractors are curious people. That’s why they love to hear how others broke into this weird and wonderful world of work and how they are improving their game and switching off when they aren’t working. This week Sarah Townsend, freelance copywriter and bestselling author of Survival Skills for Freelancers, chats with The Freelance […]

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FREELANCER HEALTH GUIDE The COVID-15 has spread across international borders. Luckily, it’s not a new virus. It’s the 15-pounds of unwanted weight gain that has sneakily spread across a growing number of freelancer waistlines and work-from-home workers from Manchester to Manhattan. As much as some freelancers have taken advantage of their flexible or spare time […]

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What’s happening? Over the next 12-weeks, 110 women will be kick-starting their careers as freelancers in the North West of England thanks to a fully-funded Accelerator programme called FreelancerHER 100. The accelerator’s mission is to empower women to launch their own freelance businesses across the media, digital, technology and creative sectors, especially if they have […]

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