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Nick at Freelance Freedom
@freelancefreedom.co.uk
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Articles, interviews and advice on how to escape the 9-5, be your own boss and live the life you want. Not selling courses, coaching, or any other hustle!
Feel free to DM if you'd like to do an interview
Nottingham, UK
https://freelancefreedom.co.uk
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Nick at Freelance Freedom @freelancefreedom.co.uk · Nov 22
Hi 👋 I've been freelancing for over 20 years as a web designer/developer. It meant freedom from the commute, office politics and working for awful clients. My blog shares some of the things I've learned as well as interviewing other freelance folks!
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Feeling like a digital nomad again this week as my home internet is off - too hot and scrabbling for wifi 😆
#freelance #selfEmployed
Freelancer’s laptop and coffee in a sunny cafe
May 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Freelancers: Always Use A Contract & Terms - It can be easy to start work without having a contract or terms in place - here are reasons not to!
#freelance #smallBusiness
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Freelancers: Always Use A Contract & Terms - Advice for freelancers | Freelance Freedom
If you meet a friendly potential client it's really easy to start work without having a contract or terms in place. It might be fine, but you might end up working for nothing or getting in trouble. I…
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April 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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I switched my site to www.classicpress.net a while back and it's been rock solid ever since. It removes loads of old code from the admin side so it runs way faster. Easy to convert WordPress to ClassicPress and uses all the same plugins.
#classicPress #wordPress #blogging
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April 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Interesting webinar from www.fizzyginger.co.uk last week - Rosie has great tips on cutting out 'hustle culture' and regaining our time. Also that that 'first year in business energy' isn't needed once were established!
#freelance #smallBusiness #workLifeBalance
Fizzy Ginger | Marketing Education & Consultancyfor Heart-Led Businesses
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April 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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We all need to find new clients and quick ways to generate work can include freelance marketplaces, your network and referrals. Here are some pros and cons.
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#freelance #smallBusiness
Finding Freelance Work - Marketplaces, your network and referrals - Advice for freelancers | Freelance Freedom
When you're first starting off, you will need to find the best ways of finding freelance work for your industry. There are various ways of finding new projects to work on and this will be a quick rund...
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March 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Started up weekly accountability calls with my brother again and we're going to use this simple structure;
A win from last week
Set goals for this week
How did last week's goals go?
Any obstacles to overcome?
#freelance #accountability #business
March 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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• #socialmedia pros
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February 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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I'm Ellie- a freelance model maker and papercut artist, working in architecture, film, games + exhibition design and always on the lookout to collaborate with artists and designers.
December 5, 2024 at 10:49 AM
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Working with fossil fuel ad agencies is a bit like being in #Severance. They don’t tell you the truth, they don’t take responsibility and their sustainability campaigns are a distraction like Lumon's parties. Here are 6 ways they do it, based on @desmog.bsky.social’s investigation 🧵⬇️
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February 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Freelancing With Confidence - this can be in the services we offer, the clients we choose and the way we market ourselves.
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#freelance #smallBusiness
Freelancing With Confidence - Advice for freelancers | Freelance Freedom
It's scary setting up on our own as freelancers and trying to attract clients. Certainly in the early stages this can lead to us offering all kinds of services to all kinds of clients in an effort to ...
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March 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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How To Decline A Client Project 5 Ways (Politely & Respectfully)
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#freelance #smallBusiness
How To Decline A Client Project 5 Ways (Politely & Respectfully)
Every freelancer needs to know how to decline a cilent project politely. Here’s what you need to know about how to do so in a respectful way.
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March 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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"How are you doing? It’s a simple question, but when you’re freelancing, it’s less common for you to have a team-mate who you bump into in the morning, over coffee, asking how your weekend was."
#leapers #freelance #selfEmployed
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How are you doing?
Leapers exists to understand and improve the mental health of the self-employed, but we can't do it alone. Our focus is on "understand", and collaboration with the ecosystem will deliver "improve".
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February 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Working out a retainer statement with a client today - we've been through four time tracking/project management systems so that was a challenge 😅
#freelance #projectManagement
February 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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While email is a great way of keeping in touch, email overload can turn out to be your enemy when working as a freelancer. Constantly checking emails and replying only bring you more emails to respond to...
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#freelance #selfEmployed
Managing Email As A Freelancer - Advice for freelancers | Freelance Freedom
While email is a great way of keeping in touch, email overload can turn out to be your enemy when working as a freelancer. Constantly checking emails and replying only bring you more emails to respond...
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January 31, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Spent all day fighting a gnarly WordPress issue, back to client work today!
January 31, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Tomorrow our freelancers meet up is in the Lord Nelson pub, Brighton from 8pm-11. Freelance and struggling with finding work, client comms or tax? Come and pick our brains! Just want to chat? That's cool too

Map: maps.app.goo.gl/rEYy36xWmqsB...

Last week: www.brightonfarm.com/2025/meeting...
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Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.
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January 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Massive, polluting, and dangerous SUVs are becoming the norm in the UK. There's a better way.

Today, we launch the SUV Alliance with a 5-point manifesto for safer and fairer streets without SUVs

Manifesto 👉 suv-alliance.org.uk
January 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Just had goal setting catch up with my freelance buddy - we've both set a mix of physical, financial and business goals for Q1
#freelance #goals
January 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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OK that's enough, finally deleted the Twitter/X account which was inactive anyway. Fuck fascists and their platforms.
January 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Some tips here to help manage freelance enquiries more effectively - inc filtering out time wasters and having a bnak of stock email responses
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#freelance #smallBusiness
Managing Freelance Enquiries - Advice for freelancers | Freelance Freedom
If all goes well you will be generating enquiries asking for your freelance services. To make the best of your time you need to process these quickly and separate enquiries from genuine potential clie...
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January 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Accountant has sent over tax return for me to sign - glad to have this sorted well ahead of time 💥
#freelance #tax
January 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Sick of Facebook's shit? Here's some info on how to delete your account.
If you can't quit yet (family, business page admin etc), you can still improve privacy by deleting the apps & using it in sandboxed web browser.
deletefacebook.com
#facebook #privacy
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January 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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"Hand-picked remote climate jobs delivered straight to your inbox"
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#sustainability #getHired #jobs
"Discover Remote Climate Jobs - Hand-picked remote climate jobs delivered straight to your inbox"
January 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Looking forward to a catch up with my freelance accountabilibuddy this week to set goals for this quarter 💪
January 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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I’ve learned to spot troublesome projects over the years so here are three of the signs it might not go well.
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#freelance #selfEmployed
Some freelance enquiry red flags
I had an enquiry from a potential web design client this week that contained quite a few 'red flags'. Here are three of the signs it might not go well.
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January 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM