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What are your biggest hurdles as a freelancer?

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08-10-2012, 08:47 PM
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For me it is often staying on top of billing. This sounds counterintuitive but since I am always focused on the next project I often forget to chase down payment...

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I understand that it's hard to stay on top of your payments, it can be quite a tedious task... For me however it's finding Clients! Really struggling with that

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Just keep pushing with that one. The more good work you do the more that comes back to you. I swear. You will be at the point that word of mouth is all you need.

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you can simply create a spread sheet with all you clients , mention the start date and the due a mounts on each of them , so you can focus more on getting new clients.

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Okay, so, here's a related question:

what do you do to (identify and) address the biggest hurdles you discover as you work to be a successful freelancer?

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