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My Podcast is Responsible for 65% of My Freelance Earnings [Guest Post]
Our latest guest post comes from Jon McGreevy. I’ve known Jon since his pre-freelance career, so we’ve known each other for a while. He recently celebrated his first-year freelancing anniversary...
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An Anti-Sell Story: Alexis Charkiw, Freelance Bookkeeper
It’s time for another Anti-Sell Story! (You can see previous Stories here on the blog and/or in the book!) This time we have Alexis Charkiw (or “Lex” for short). Lex and I live locally (South Wales)...
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29 Random Networking, Self-Promotion & Personal Branding Tips
This post started life as a Twitter thread… Here’s a thread of 29 random networking / self-promotion / personal branding tips, aimed at people who hate the idea of selling themselves – because f*ck it,...
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Critical Fail! The Story of a D&D Facebook Group That Spammed Its Members Too...
I’m a big, big fan of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D for short). I got into it properly back in 2018, and then in April 2020 – not long after the global pandemic kicked in – I started running games...
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Remembering My First Ever Networking Event (Where Some Guy Full-on Shouted at...
I’ve written a book about networking, a process where (well, up until recently) you primarily went out and met people face-to-face, often at business networking events. As a result, you’d probably...
View ArticleAnti-Sell Turns 4 (& I Have An Announcement)
My book Anti-Sell officially turns 4-years-old today. (I say “officially” because some formats (e.g. Kindle) were available before 27th March 2019, but this was the date where all formats were...
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Integrity: The Most Important Trait in Personal Branding as a Freelancer
There’s a tweet I think about a lot. A few months ago, a freelancer bragged on Twitter – now known as X (ugh…) – about how he was earning “high six figures” from his freelancing efforts. Within...
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7 Thoughts on Ghosting (From a Long-time Freelancer)
Back in February I tweeted to say I would blog about being ghosted: My next Anti-Sell post is going to be about ghosting. Nearly 10 years into my freelancing career & I just experienced my most...
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Remembering the Scariest 1-to-1 Networking Meeting I Ever Had…
I published Anti-Sell back in 2019 – but occasionally I’ll randomly remember an old memory that could’ve been a chapter in the book if I’d remembered it at the time. It’s happened a fair few times now:...
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Your Biggest Networking Superpower as a Freelancer (is Much Easier Than You...
There’s two things I don’t like when it comes to business advice: 1) wishy-washy advice, and 2) clickbaity titles. …Aaand this post has both! Sorry. On the plus side, I’ll get straight to the point...
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