Author: Dr. Mike
Mikko J. Rissanen, Ph.D., a.k.a. Dr. Mike, is an accomplished solopreneur living in a tropical paradise, inventing cool tech and coding from his beach office... and eating coconuts all day, every day. He has been running his one-man show in Penang, Malaysia, since 2014 until he moved the business to the United States as I2 Network in 2021. He is one of the most highly paid freelancers on Upwork and he has been supporting hundreds of starting freelancers since 2017. Follow his latest tips on LinkedIn or seek his personal guidance by participating in the Freelance Like a Boss webinar course or become a member of the CoachLancer community!
There are many ways to find paying customers for your freelance business. Some depend on what type of work you do as a freelancer, others work out pretty well regardless of the type. In this …
Lots of people would like to dump the day job and go freelance for the obvious reasons: flexibility of working whenever and wherever, choosing the assignments, and so on. Many seem to think of freelancing …
Freelance sites are notorious for short-term low-pay jobs, even the premium ones like Upwork (my favorite). But what you didn’t probably know is that the most successful freelancers can skip those kinds of jobs and …
Fresh freelancers are idiots. Business idiots. At least I was a complete business idiot when I started my one-man show six years ago. When starting up, we freelancers don’t spend a dime on anything and …
I started CoachLancer.com in May 2019 with the mission of solving freelancing problems and improving the chances of starting freelancers when building their businesses online. I’ve talked with hundreds of fellow freelancers in various domains, …
Part 1 explained how you can communicate effectively with your client starting from the first lines of text you send via a freelance site. Now, let’s examine those inevitable times when things go south and …
When joining a freelance site, any of them actually, the first thing you have to create is a profile that attracts clients. It sounds easy, but it is not. The freelancer profile writing, like many …
Doing freelance online on Upwork, PeoplePerHour, Freelancer or similar platforms is hard because of global competition. Almost everything you have thought of doing is already being done by many others. To make your business successful, …
Setting up your business as a freelancer is a decisive moment in your career. Things can go great, but most often, before things start to go great, they take the opposite turn. Here are my …
A full-time freelance career can be hard to start. This is especially true if you attempt to go straight to the top on any of the global freelancing sites be it PeoplePerHour, Upwork, Freelancer, or …