Freelancer Magazine

100 pages every three months dedicated to connecting the lives and growing the businesses of B2B and creative freelancers.

Editor's Letter

The Freelancer Magazine Team

Your Messages • Thank you so much for all your emails and messages. Please keep sending them in and let us know what you want to see more of.

THE FREELANCE DOODLER

On Kindness

THE POWER OF WORDS

#FreelanceLifeOnTheGrid • Our favourite freelancer pics from the Gram.

A Day In The Life Of… Lea Turner

So You Want To Be A… Confidence Coach? • Ashleigh Frater is a Confidence Coach based in Dartford, UK. She supports introverts, especially women, to find their ‘quiet power’ and get ahead in life.

Beach Fit • We caught up with Clint-Sanyika Odieté on the beach in Margate’s Walpole Bay, where he runs his personal training business, Beach Fit.

2022 HOW DO I… JOIN OR BUILD A COMMUNITY? • Ece Kurtaraner is a community and online events strategist based in Manchester and the cohost of Leapers Accountability Pods. She wants to help you become part of a community that works for you.

Marketing And Making A Future • Louise Major is a freelance marketing specialist from Hertfordshire. Alongside work, she support her teenage son Archie, 15, who has autism, to build his cruelty-free bath products business, Castaway Cottage.

Money Prevent Overdue Invoices • How to prevent overdue invoices in 8 easy steps with Gary Prince, Chief Strategy Officer at SimplyPayMe.

Do Give Up Your Day Job • Jess MacIntyre and Natalie Moores are Mac+Moore - a creative brand studio based in London that they’ve been running for six years.

Stop! Collaborate And Listen • When we get together, magic happens! Discover the stories behind three cracking freelance collaborations, as told to Penny Brazier.

Celebrating 7 Over 70 • 30 under 30 is so 2015. Let's give praise to the people still choosing to freelance in their seventies.

BEING EDDIE SHLEYNER • Eddie Shleyner is a copywriter, content marketer, and founder of a blog and newsletter called VeryGoodCopy.com. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Kelsey, their baby son, Beau, and their pup, Sydney.

Freelance Communities You Might Not Know About… • Doing It For The Kids (DIFTK) 2.0

The World Came Back, But Where Did We Go? • Our days are starting to have the look and feel of prepandemic life, but everything has changed - most of all us. How do we recalibrate? Penny Brazier investigates.

Going It Alone Doesn't Have To Be Lonely • So you've done it. Pulled the trigger and gone freelance. Everyone was very supportive, of course. Very kind. But you detected a hint of scepticism in their voices, in the surprised glances, the raised eyebrows that said “giving up a stable pay cheque, in this economy?”

What We’re Watching…

Freelance Events and Meet Ups • IRL is back and we want to know where you’ve been, who you’ve met and what you’ve learnt.

Copywriting, Creativity And Some Pr*ck Called Alan • Dan Nelken is a Copywriter based in Vancouver, Canada. He recently released his first book “A Self-Help Guide for Copywriters: A resource for writing headlines and building creative confidence” and launched his first course, “Writing Under Pressure”.

Virtual Events and Get-Togethers • SUMMER-AUTUMN 2022

Ask Twitter • What’s the kindest thing anyone has ever done for you in your freelance career?

Jo Watson’s ‘We Were All Thinking It’… • A new and ongoing feature on the pages of Freelancer Magazine, where the funniest lady on Linkedln, Jo Watson, gives us her spin on something that we've probably all at least thought at some point, but have never in good conscience or for good reason said or written in a public space.Expect swearing,...