{"id":93,"date":"2009-06-17T07:58:43","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T14:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/?p=93"},"modified":"2009-07-09T11:46:24","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T18:46:24","slug":"freelancing-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/freelancing\/freelancing-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Freelancing Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best Freelancing tip I can give you is that freelancing is hard. Real hard, don&#8217;t let people fool you that it&#8217;s the easy option. I&#8217;ve been freelancing for years now and here is what I have come to learn.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to be a successful Freelancer you should expect  to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Put on weight<\/li>\n<li>\nWork till late on a Friday night whilst your mates are down the pub<\/li>\n<li>Exist in poverty for many months whilst you get your reputation built<\/li>\n<li>Suffer from Carpel Tunnel Syndrome at least twice a year<\/li>\n<li>Lose about 30% of your off-line friends<\/li>\n<li>\nBe ripped off by at least two clients<\/li>\n<li>\nLose that tan<\/li>\n<li>Waste your time with a lot of losers and wannabes who think that<br \/>\nbecause it says they are an expert on their Twitter bio it makes it<br \/>\nso.<\/li>\n<li>Never read a novel again<\/li>\n<li>\nWhen you go to sleep dream about google results page and scoring bigg on digg<\/li>\n<li>Think of time in a global 24 hour zone and something that is normal<\/li>\n<li>\nSpend hours and hours learning stuff that you later find out is now obsolete<\/li>\n<li>Learn that the so called seo\/marketing\/personal coach\/blogging guru<br \/>\nactually leaves in a trailer park in the bad side of town and is<br \/>\nselling ebooks to pay off the debts he owes his crack dealing Mother<\/li>\n<li>Wonder why no one cares that you joined Twitter in it&#8217;s first month<br \/>\nand that no one wants to hear that it&#8217;s not as good as it used to be<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OK, now I have covered the good stuff, maybe we can do the bad in the next post \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&#038;pub=xa-4a54c40b51a9a99d\" onmouseover=\"return addthis_open(this, '', '[URL]', '[TITLE]')\" onmouseout=\"addthis_close()\" onclick=\"return addthis_sendto()\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/lg-share-en.gif\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" style=\"border:0\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js?pub=xa-4a54c40b51a9a99d\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Button END --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best Freelancing tip I can give you is that freelancing is hard. Real hard, don&#8217;t let people fool you that it&#8217;s the easy option. I&#8217;ve been freelancing for years now and here is what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freelancing","tag-freelancing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}