Comments on: Freelancers' Strategies for Prospering in Bad Times

By: The WordCount Bad Economy Survival Kit « WordCount/by Michelle Vranizan Rafter

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:53:42 +0000

[...] Freelancers’ strategies for prospering in bad times – Suggestions from a variety of freelancers about steps they’re taking to strengthen their businesses this year. [...]

By: Best of WordCount: Career development for freelancers « WordCount/by Michelle Vranizan Rafter

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:07:06 +0000

[...] Freelancers’ strategies for prospering in bad times – Suggestions from established freelancers with a variety of backgrounds and business plans, including tips for maintaining old clients while cultivating new ones. [...]

By: Writers can SWOT their way through bad times « WordCount/by Michelle Vranizan Rafter

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:06:36 +0000

[...] SWOT is the name of a career assessment technique espoused by Grant Plowman, owner of Interactive Media Publishing, a digital media publishing company in southern Oregon. I mentioned Plowman earlier this year in a post about how freelance writers can cope with bad times. [...]

By: How to write blog posts that get comments « WordCount/by Michelle Vranizan Rafter

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:06:27 +0000

[...] 5. Freelancers’ strategies for prospering in bad times [...]

By: Guest post: Going freelance in a down economy « WordCount/by Michelle Vranizan Rafter

Tue, 27 May 2008 14:08:34 +0000

[...] * * Here are other WordCount posts on freelancing in a down economy: Freelancers strategies for prospering in bad times Taking my own advice for beating bad times Marketing your freelance writing in bad times What me [...]

By: Strategies for sustaining a freelance business « Thoughts On Translation

Strategies for sustaining a freelance business « Thoughts On Translation — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:55:59 +0000

[...] 4, 2008 by Corinne McKay Michelle Vranizan Rafter’s blog has a great post entitled “Freelancers’ Strategies for Prospering in Bad Times.” Although my sense [...]

By: Corinne McKay

Corinne McKay — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:17:09 +0000

Thanks for this great post, it is excellent advice for freelancers of all types (I’m a French>English translator and blog about translation). Another piece of advice that I’ve heard and liked is to think upmarket rather than downmarket when the economy gets tough. Rather than cutting your rates or competing on price alone, look for higher-paying, quality-conscious clients who are willing to pay top dollar for your services (and of course, be ready to earn it!).

By: Matt Keegan

Matt Keegan — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:55:49 +0000

A down economy seems to work for my benefit. As companies trim staff, they realize that some work cannot be handled in-house, thus I get contacted to do a project no one else can or will handle.

Offering your services to companies who need to have holes filled without hiring staff is the best approach to getting new work. When the project is done, everyone moves on.

By: Taking My Own Advice on Beating Bad Times « WordCount/by Michelle Vranizan Rafter

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:40:45 +0000

[...] was bummed. But I’d just finished writing here about smart things freelancers can do to weather bad times. So I had to take my own advice. Later the same day, I needed to send a separate pitch to a [...]

By: Robert Dolezal

Robert Dolezal — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:10:57 +0000

I think that you did the freelance community a great service by summarizing all your sources into a simple outline for great marketing. Congratulations.

I hope that you will next address the issues raised by offshoring editorial work–copy writing, copy editing, substantive editing, etc.–that causes the end product to become disjointed from the culture of the country for which the product is intended. It’s a problem I noted many years ago on imported books that failed the “American native context” test–as I am sure U.S. books do in other countries.