Guest Post by Lisa Braithwaite
Creative businesses are fun! But, like any other business, creative businesses still require a lot of hard work. Most of us start a business because we’ve found something we are good at and passionate about, and we want to make a living doing what we love – for example, turning a [...]

Have you ever used one of those online gig-finding sites to get more work? If you don’t know what I’m talking about, check out Elance.com or Guru.com.
I responded to a post on Freelance Switch yesterday about this and it prompted me to expand on the discussion.
In the past year I’ve used one of the bid [...]

It’s Thanksgiving Day in America and I’m sitting here with my kids watching the Macy’s parade. Drinking coffee, eating breakfast muffins, lighting a fire. It’s an American cliche, it’s so… nuclear.
That’s okay, I’ll take the label. You know why?
Al Roker.
My buddy Al is the man on the street, talking to celebrities and people in the [...]

Before I took the plunge over the precipice of Steady Job Mountain, I did a lot of researching. I’ve read so many freelance and business books standing at a Barnes & Noble shelf that I find it’s hard to read sitting down anymore.
Among the mass of information out there about freelancing as an artist, I [...]