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Chris Achard

Welcome Judith!

If you're looking to become a freelancer, I have 2 tips I give to everyone looking to go down that route:

  1. Save up some money first: Freelancing is hard because clients can fall through, or not pay for awhile, and sometimes it takes a long time to finish a project, bill the client, and have them pay. So make sure you have some savings you can fall back on if things go sideways

  2. Start to "become a visible expert" in your space: that might mean a blog, or ebook, or doing presentations (that are recorded and put on youtube), but basically: have something you can point to, so that people know that you know what you're talking about.

Other than that: good luck! I hope things go well for you :)