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Should You Charge for Discovery Calls?

Once you start taking sales and discovery calls, sooner or later you might have the impulse to start charging people for your time during this process. Should you do that?
 
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Serverless Computing for Dummies

Is Data Science as Viable for Freelancing as Programming?

A lot of the questions I field about freelancing and business come from people that are programmers. But what about data science? Can that be as viable a trade for freelancing as programming is?
 
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The basics of secret management

How Do You Win Long Term Clients?

Many freelancers, especially new ones, will want to earn long-term clients. How do you go about doing that, and is it actually valuable to do?
 
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Cypress vs. Selenium: What’s the Better Testing Framework?

Is It Normal to Feel Guilty about Raising Rates?

One of the most important (and stress-inducing) times in the career of a freelancer/business-owner is when you increase your rates or prices. Is it normal to feel guilty when doing so?
 
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Link of the week:
Tricentis SAP Testing

Do You Need a Bookkeeper to Freelance?

If you're going off on your own as a freelancer, do you need to have a bookkeeper? If so, when should you hire one?
 
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Link of the week:
Data: What Is DevSecOps?

What to Say to "Freelancing Isn't a Real Job?"

This is an interesting one. How would should you respond to someone telling you "freelancing isn't a real job?"
 
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What is a staging environment?

Client Supplied Contract Instead of Signing Mine

This one is kind of a specific question. What happens when you're a freelancer and ask a client to sign a contract, but they supply their own instead for you to sign?
 
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Links of the week:
Get Started With Salesforce QA and Testing: A Tutorial
8 CI/CD Best Practices for Your DevOps Journey
What Is A Social Media Ghostwriter? An Executive’s Guide

What's it Like Adjusting to Not Having a Boss?

Once you go off on your own and freelance, likely for the first time in your career, you won't have a boss. What's that like?
 
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Links of the week:
Proxyrack.com
Key Components of a CI/CD Pipeline

How Do I Become a True Consultant?

One thing that freelancers commonly deal with, and that a lot of people ask me about is how to become a "true consultant" or an advisor, rather than just a laborer where the client gives you a checklist of things to go.
 
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Links of the week:
Test Environments: Why You Need Them and How to Set It Up
Key Components of a CI/CD Pipeline

What Questions to Ask During Discovery?

Part of any freelancer's practice is going to be doing sales conversations, and any good sales conversation for custom work will involve a discovery process. What should that look like? What questions should you ask the prospect?
 
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Learn Regression testing
Get started with Kafka and Docker in 20 minutes
8 CI/CD Best Practices for Your DevOps Journey