Author Archives: admin

The A-Z of Freelancing – Creativity

June 18 Freelance A-Z 3 comments

Where do you usually come up with your best ideas? When hard at work at your desk? In a serious business meeting? I don’t know about you, but my brain usually shifts into creative mode when I’m doing somethin...

A very overdue holiday

June 13 Freelance Health 2 comments

By the time you read this, I’ll hopefully be all checked in to my honeymoon cruise with my new hubby and preparing to sail around places like Oslo, St Petersberg and Tallin for a whole 13 days. Hopefully with a rid...

Hi, my name is Emma, and I’m a freelance….er….

June 11 Freelance Business 8 comments

When someone asks you what you do, what’s your usual response? I’ve been freelancing for nearly five years, but I still don’t know how to answer that question. Right now, I’m doing everything from...

Catch up on The Freelance Lifestyle Q&A

June 7 Vlogging no comments

Last night, I had my first big Q&A for The Freelance Lifestyle, answering questions like: How do I get into being freelance? How to find time for learning new things in your industry when keeping on top of your work ...

The Freelance Lifestyle answers YOUR questions this Thursday at 7.30pm...

June 3 Freelance Challenges no comments

This week’s Freelance Lifestyle Tea Break Challenge is a bit of a different one. If you’re on my mailing list, you’ll know that I emailed all my subscribers this morning with a FREE copy of the 30 Day F...

Speaking at Blognix in Birmingham

May 30 Blogging, Featured no comments

In just over a week, I’ll be on my way to Birmingham, to a place called The Custard Factory, to speak about social media, enjoy a picnic and chat to some of the most exciting bloggers in the UK. Sounds interesting?...

How to be a part-time freelancer – free time freelancing

May 24 Freelance General no comments

Did you know a lot of freelancers started out doing bits and pieces in their free time, around their full-time jobs, families and other responsibilities? Taking the plunge into full time freelancing can be, well….....

Freelance Marketplaces – are they worth it?

May 23 Freelance General 1 comment

This morning, after a couple of technical difficulties, I managed to have a great hangout with the lovely Rosie from One Man Band Accounting. We discussed a topic that I think a lot of you might find interesting – ...

The A-Z of Freelancing: Bad Clients (and a little favour….)

May 22 Freelance A-Z, Freelance Business no comments

This week’s A-Z of freelancing is ‘bad clients’, voted for by the fans over on The Freelance Lifestyle Facebook page. I can see why they want it covered. Dealing with bad clients is tricky, time-consumi...

The Freelance Lifestyle Tea Break Challenge – Meet other local p...

May 21 Freelance Challenges, Vlogging 1 comment

  It’s time for the Freelance Lifestyle Tea Break Challenge! (Can we all pretend I’m not actually late posting this challenge? Yes? Wonderful!) So, this week, it’s all about community. Working from...

Freelance Freedoms VS Employed Freedoms

May 17 Guest Posts 3 comments

One of my aims at The Freelance Lifestyle was to give an honest and real idea of what freelancing is like. Which is why I love this guest post by freelance writer Katie M Anderson. Katie shares with us the real freedoms ...

The A-Z of Freelancing – Admin

May 15 Featured, Freelance General 2 comments

Welcome to The Freelance Lifestyle’s A-Z of Freelancing. Each week, I’ll be looking at a new topic linked to freelancing – from Admin to dealing with having Zero clients. This week’s topic, as I&#...

The Freelance Lifestyle Tea Break Challenge: Get paid faster!

May 13 Featured, Freelance Challenges 3 comments

This week’s Freelance Lifestyle Tea Break Challenge is about something a lot of freelancers worry about. We spend hours trying to deal with it. It’s one of the biggest problems freelancer face. It makes us en...

20 of the best iPhone apps for freelancing

May 10 Freelance General 2 comments

A lot of freelancers I know, myself included, have a reputation for being surgically attached to their smartphones. The beauty and curse of being freelance is that you’re never far from a couple of taps from work. ...

The Freelance Lifestyle Co-Working Venue Map – I need you!

May 9 Freelance Business 3 comments

I’ve been moaning about the lack of decent co-working spaces in Berkshire for a while now. I live in Bracknell, near Reading, but the nearest permanent co-working space to me is probably in London. We have temporar...

Five ways to earn money in your free time

May 8 Featured, Freelance Finance no comments

Want to earn a little money? I’m not talking thousands here, but potentially a couple of hundred pounds a month if done well. It’s not as hard as you might think. Here are five fairly simple ways to earn a li...

The Weekly Freelance Lifestyle Challenge comes to YouTube!

May 7 Freelance Challenges no comments

One of the things I’ve loved doing here on the Freelance Lifestyle is the weekly challenges. I’m a big fan of setting little personal challenges, and it’s great to see many readers enjoying them too. On...

What do YOU want to see on The Freelance Lifestyle?

May 3 Freelance General 3 comments

A little update post today! It’s been a fairly hectic few months, mainly thanks to planning a wedding (details will be over The High Tea Cast over the next couple of weeks). It was a truly wonderful day, but I̵...

Task Squad: Inspiring the next generation of freelancers

April 15 Freelance General 3 comments

For a couple of years now, I’ve been thinking about the next generation of freelancers. Freelancing, in general, isn’t something taught in school. Career advice in general (there are exceptions) seems to be s...

Delightful Desk Details: Indoor Allotment

April 12 Featured, Working From Home 2 comments

This week, I’ve been giving my desk area a bit of a spring clean. It’s been….under-used the last few months. Not because I haven’t been working, but because I’ve mainly been working from the...