Hit Subscribe Freelancer Q&A

How to Market Yourself as a Freelancer

If you're a relatively new freelancer, how do you go about marketing yourself? The answer is simple, but not easy. Marketing is about being memorable, and being a generalist isn't memorable, so one of the most powerful things you can do is identify a niche. But, if you haven't done that or don't know how, I have some tips you can use while still in generalist-land.
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As someone who (reluctantly) spends a good bit of time in Slack, I like what Wrangle has to offer, which is automation around Slack ticketing and workflows.
In producing this podcast, I've been getting a lot of mileage out of this free tool, that you can use to extract the audio from YouTube videos.
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Dealing with Lawyers as a Freelancer

If you're just getting started as a freelancer, you might wonder what you need a lawyer's help with. Do you need a contract? Help setting up an LLC? In this video I offer a take based on my experience setting up multiple businesses of what you do and don't need a lawyer for.
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For the content work we do, web performance is an important subject, so check out this guide on synthetic testing and real user monitoring.
Speaking of content, shameless plug for my DaedTech series about, well, SEO, called "SEO for non-scumbags."
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How Do Taxes Work When You Start a Business?

Are you thinking about hanging out your shingle and don't know how taxes work? Maybe you've never thought about how taxes work (you should, though). In this video, I walk you through how taxes work for freelancers in the US.
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A while back, one of our authors, Carlos, wrote an article about Git statistics, which I, as a connoisseur of static analysis, can appreciate.
Speaking of which, if you're a .NET engineer and like you some static analysis, check out NDepend.
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How Do You Get Clients for Your New Business?

Are you just starting out as a freelancer or moonlighter, and wondering how to go about finding clients? In this video I lay out a series of fairly specific tactics freelancers can use for finding clients.
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This is a little older, but here's an article from a Hit Subscribe author about the test data manager role.
If you ever need a good way to automatically filter out background noise when recording audio, give krisp.ai a look.
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Setting Your Rate as a New Freelancer

How do you set your rate as a freelancer? I offer two things in this video:
A detailed explanation of the philosophical with the idea of "having a rate"
A super actionable piece of easy advice for setting it, if you insist on doing this.
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I'm always one for a little orchestration, so check out this guide to orchestrating microservices.
I've been enjoying using ClickUp for quick and easy documentation of my personal SOPs.
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Starting a new Freelance Business: Dos and Donts

In this edition, I tackled the subject of dos and don'ts for starting a new business. Join me for a list of things that I think you ought to do, and a list of things I don't think you should bother with -- some of those might surprise you.
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One of HS's longest established authors, Peter Morlion, created this guide on iOS unit testing.
In a self-referential, meta-concern, I'm really enjoying Podbean, which I'm using to generate this podcast.
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Should You Incorporate to Moonlight or Freelance?

I tackle the question that everyone asks sooner or later: should I create some kind of business or just do business as myself?
 
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