Improve your chances of landing jobs with tips from the Freelancer Club. Ensuring that your profile is ready to be reviewed, your quote is competitive, your proposal contains the key information and you show the client an appropriate set of images for the specific project.

Learn how to properly upload new projects to your Freelancer Club profile using images, video, text, tags, location and credits to increase you exposure and engagement. How you present your portfolio will have a significant impact on your experience as a member. It will improve your chances of landing jobs whist increasing the number of enquiries, comments, likes and messages you receive.  

We’re all vastly familiar with the overused adage—“I’m still stuck at work.” It can be used for anything pertaining to family and friends—dinners, parties, meetups, your 7-a-side midweek footy team where everyone in the Whatsapp group starts dropping like flies the closer it gets to kickoff...where you have a sneaking suspicion it’s all BS because they have decided they can’t simply be arsed playing in torrential rain.

Two seconds - that’s all you have to catch the eye of a potential client on Instagram, TikTok, or the Freelancer Club. Professional Makeup Artist, Hair Stylist and Illustrator, Siew Gratton, knows a thing or two about how to attract viewers and land paid work online. Her makeup-centric content has been seen by tens of thousands of fans and brands and she's going to share how she does it.

It’s been said that you can find a coffee shop on every single corner in New York City. While I may not have been there myself to know if this really is true, it seems undeniable that communal caffeine intake is a huge part of the city’s culture.  However, no matter how many cafés you may come across, it can be difficult for freelancers to find one with the right amount of space and plug sockets, that doesn’t want you to leave the second you’ve collected your drink, let alone one that is happy for you to plop down your laptop for a few hours!

What is a test shoot? What's the meaning of a TFP shoot? We get asked these questions all the time and, worryingly, when we flip the question around, we get the wrong answer more often than not. Knowing what a test shoot is, how they work, why they are important to your brand, portfolio and career, and the best practices around test shooting will set you up for successful freelance life.

Vicki Wallis, The Fashion Business Coach and founder of Freelancing Simplified, shares her strategy & toolkit on the most essential soft skills for freelancers to secure satisfied and returning customers.

One of the key parts of a freelancer’s tool kit is their soft-skills as they can help you to navigate the freelance world safely, collaborate with others and hold onto clients for a long time. Since these social skills have a tendency to degrade over time, the recent pandemic lockdowns have left a lot of us trying to remember how to interact with others again. While you don't need to be a master conversationalist or an organisational guru, there are certain soft-skills that every freelancer should have in their repertoire.