What were the highs and lows of your freelance business this year?
We’ll be discussing what we achieved, where we messed up and what we hope to accomplish in 2012 in a special Almost New Year’s Eve Party edition of the WordCount Last Wednesday writer chat.
The chat takes place on Wednesday, Dec. 28, at 10 a.m. Pacific time. Use the hashtag #wclw to join the conversation.
Freelancing Highs and Lows
Thinking back on my freelance business during the past year, the highs included:
- Producing a whitepaper series for the first time and having the client like them so much plans are in he works for more next year
- Doing more work for a long-time client that I hadn’t written for very much in 2009 and 2010.
- Traveling to see editors and other clients in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
- The continued success of the WordCount Blogathon
Some of the lows:
- Spending more than a week finishing up a major report that I couldn’t bill for because I was making up for being terribly late on an earlier deadline for the same client.
- Working too much and not working out enough
- Getting behind on the non-writing aspects of running my business
- Not producing the ebooks that I’ve been talking about for the past two years (due to all of the above).
Here are the pre-set questions:
- Q1: What were your biggest freelancing accomplishments in 2011?
- Q2: What do you wish you could have done better?
- Q3: What are your goals for 2012?
- Q4: What would you tell someone considering starting a freelance career in the New Year?
Joining the #wclw chat
It’s possible to use the standard Twitter interface for the chat, but you might find it easier to follow along with an add-on application such as TweetGrid, TweetChat or HootSuite. Of those three, my favorite is TweetChat, which you can log into using your Twitter account. You might want to alert followers that you’ll be tweeting more than usual during the chat, and suggest they use Muuter.com to temporarily mute you if they don’t want to tune into the conversation.
If you’re unable to join us, I’ll post highlights from the chat in an upcoming post.
Got an idea for a future #wclw chat? Would you like to participate as a guest speaker? Send your idea or bio to me at wordcountfreelance@gmail.com.