I am asked on several occasions and sometimes told that freelancing is an easy job that gets you on your own and away from the everyday craziness that is the corporate world. Boy could that be farther from the truth.

More than one job title

While it is a relief to work for yourself and have complete control of your clients, projects, and life, there are a whole mess of titles that you possess as a freelancer. Freelancer, or creative consultant as I have been known to say, is just one hat that you wear. You must become an accountant, project manager, CEO, marketing director, public relations, administrative assistant, and customer service specialist. While these are just a few of the top titles you must possess and possess well, they only scratch the surface of what you must focus on when you are in the role of freelancer.

In the next few entries I will pick a part each of the above job titles and explain why and how you must implement them into your daily routine to become a better creative consultant.

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Hello fellow creative consultants. In an otherwise upbeat post, I have been experiencing the sometimes dreaded downtime freelancers discuss in quiet mutters as they hope for a brighter tomorrow. However, I post about the “dread” that is the downtime in hopes to offer the brighter tomorrow we tend to welcome when the time between clients seems far and in between.

What to Do?

So when the time comes, and let’s face the fact that it will come, you may wonder what to do to get by with few to zero clients. First off, it’s not an easy time, but it does offer many wonderful plusses to a slow period.

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