6 Ignorant Mistakes That Could Destroy Your Freelancing Career

And my battle-tested tips to avoid it.

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As a new freelancer, you make mistakes. You’re bound to.

I’ve slipped multiple times — in choosing clients, pricing, and taking up too many clients than I could handle. Or not having enough clients. And oftentimes, I ended up blowing the interview.

But you learn from your mistakes eventually.

You’ll also need to tweak your mindset and everyday routine to build a freelancing career.

To help you,

• avoid falling into the freelancing furnace and feeling burned out,
• identifying and avoiding bad clients like plague, and losing your way in the freelancing jungle or
• risk going back to the even more dreadful grind of a day job,

read on as I tell you, what’s safe and what’s great and what’s a no-no.

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