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Go Freelance

Your guide to building a successful freelance career in media and creative industries. Go Freelance covers finding clients, setting rates, managing your business, and navigating the unique challenges of working for yourself.

208 articles

Ready to Go Full-Time Freelance? Here Are the Steps to Take

It’s no secret that we’re living in a historical moment. This past year has shown that job-seekers’ patterns are changing with the current work landscape. As the flexibility of workers’ schedules adjusts with remote work…

Jess Focht

Pitching Mistakes Writers Make (And How to Avoid Them)

Freelancers, whether they’re established or just starting out, are familiar with the term “pitching.” In fact, odds are that they mainly rely on pitching ideas to editors in order to get their stories picked up.…

Jess Focht

6 Blogs Every Freelancer Should Be Reading Right Now

As a freelancer, you have a lot of freedom—the freedom to create your own schedule, the flexibility to plan your workload, and hopefully even the chance to work up to your ideal creative life. Also,…

Jess Focht

How Freelance Journalists Are Reshaping the Media Landscape

The media landscape is vastly different today for freelance journalists than it was 15 years ago. According to the Pew Research Center, full-time U.S. newsroom employment has dropped 26% since 2008. And while traditional newsrooms…

Jess Focht

4 Essential Money Management Tips for Freelancers

The world of freelancing full-time offers many perks to those who want to work for themselves: it’s flexible, fulfilling, and sometimes more profitable than if one had a traditional salary. For those dodging a traditional…

Jess Focht

5 Proven Ways to Make Your Freelance Portfolio Stand Out

If you’re a freelance writer, a photographer, a filmmaker, or a creative professional of any kind, odds are you have a portfolio to showcase your work. Portfolios are essentially a type of resume; they’re a…

Jess Focht