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When you’re at a party with new people, you don’t get balance sheets with everyone’s statistics and track record. You don’t form impressions based on their “friendship retention percentage” or…
When I set up my very first website, my only goal was to get paid for doing work that I loved and that exercised a variety of my skills. I…
Have you ever thought that if you asked for more money from your client, they would fire you? In the beginning months (or sometimes years), many freelancers ask for very low…
