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You're a freelancer and doing regular work with your clients. If you bill by the hour or, more generally, for time and materials, which meetings should you bill the clients for?   View this podcast as a video on YouTube .   Links of the Month: What are the different types of release management? Follow our podcast at Buzzsprout Follow our podcast at Listennotes

Freelancers, especially newbie freelancers, can find themselves caught in situations where their only, large, 40-hour-per week client starts to treat them more like an employee than a freelancer. What should you do?   View this podcast as a video on YouTube .   Links of the month: End-to-end testing for enterprise business processes Check out our new State of the Business newsletter

I've been asked this more than once, but eventually got around to doing a video about it. Rumor has it that California is "business-unfriendly," and, if you live there, you should start a business in another state. What's my take on that?   View this podcast as a video on YouTube.   Links of the week: Salesforce Test Automation: What Every Engineer Should Know Key Components of...

It's a situation that a lot of techies can relate to. Someone comes along and offers you a stake in their business, instead of money, if you build their vision for them. What should a freelancer do in this situation?   View this podcast as a video on YouTube.   Links of the week: Oracle testing 8 CI/CD Best Practices for Your DevOps Journey

We've all heard the phrase "hake it 'til you make it." A reader asked me if this is a good mantra to live by.   View this podcast as a video on YouTube.   Links of the week: Data: What Is DevSecOps? Key Components of a CI/CD Pipeline

At the time of recording, there's a good bit of uncertainty about the economy. Against that backdrop, as a freelancer, should you approach your work differently?   View this podcast as a video on YouTube.

Wire Transfer? Check? Cash? If you're just starting out as a freelancer, what's the best way to get paid?   View this podcast as a video on YouTube.

One of the questions that came up in my reader/viewer backlog was specific to me and my background. What is/was my worst experience with a client?   View this podcast as a video on YouTube.   Link of the week: Using Pytest Fixtures: A Step-by-Step Guide With Examples

There are all kinds of people billing themselves as (non-athletic) "coaches" out there. As someone looking to go freelance, is becoming a coach a good line of work to get into, specifically in the B2B/professional world?   View this podcast as a video on YouTube.   Link of the week: Learn Regression testing

It's common (at least in the US) for employees to furnish "references," which are essentially friends or colleagues who vouch for them as character witnesses. As a freelancer, should you also do this?   View this podcast as a video on YouTube.   Link of the week: Test Environments: Why You Need Them and How to Set It Up

When you're an employee, you probably only really think about taxes once per year. But what about as a freelancer? Well... it's a little more complicated than that.   View this podcast as a video on YouTube.   Link of the week: Get Started With Salesforce QA and Testing: A Tutorial

In this video I field a question about how much per day or per week a freelancer should work. That's not really an easy question to answer because, in a sense, it's not the right question.   View this podcast as a video on YouTube.   Link of the week: Testim Salesforce Testing

If you're a salaried employee, freelancing or starting a business can seem like a major risk. But just how risky is it, actually?   View this podcast as a video on YouTube.   Link of the week: Test Automation from Tricentis

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?   View this podcast as a video on YouTube. Link of the week: Serverless Computing for Dummies

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?   View this podcast as a video on YouTube.   Link of the week: The basics of secret management

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?   View this podcast as a video on YouTube.   Link of the week: Cypress vs. Selenium: What’s the Better Testing Framework?

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?   View this podcast as a video on YouTube.   Link of the week: Tricentis SAP Testing

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?   View this podcast as a video on YouTube.   Link of the week: Data: What Is DevSecOps?

This is an interesting one. How would should you respond to someone telling you "freelancing isn't a real job?"   View this podcast as a video on YouTube.   Link of the week: What is a staging environment?

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?   View this podcast as a video on YouTube   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

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?   View this podcast as a video on YouTube   Links of the week: Proxyrack.com Key Components of a CI/CD Pipeline

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.   View this podcast as a video on YouTube.   Links of the week: Test Environments: Why You Need Them and How to Set It Up Key Components of a CI/CD Pipeline

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?   View this podcast as a video on YouTube.

You've done some development work for a client, and as far as you're concerned, the work is over. But they come back later, demanding that you do additional work to fix a bug. How do you handle that? Join us to learn more. If you like this podcast and are interested in more business and freelance advice, you're welcome to join our free community. You can sign up and check it out her...

You've just hung out your shingle and are about to start freelancing. Congratulations! Now how do you get that first client? Join us to learn more. Link of the week: Proxyrack Residential Proxies