Canadians are rocking the freelance landscape. As of 2018 there were approximately 2,860,000 Canadian freelancers making up about 15% of the country’s workforce, according to Statistics Canada. A new study by Intuit Canada revealed that freelancers, independent contractors and on-demand…
Finding clients is one of the most challenging aspects of working for yourself. If you’re new to freelancing, it can be very challenging. And daunting. Like most everything, though, getting started is the hard part. Once you learn how to…
If you're a woman who travels, you probably have already heard that making money while traveling is a thing. But there is a lot more to know than that. (This post contains affiliate links, which means at no additional cost…
Have you ever heard of Freelancers Union? It’s the United States’ largest and fast-growing organization representing the country’s millions of independent workers. Based in New York City, Freelancers Union was founded in 1995 by lawyer Sara Horowitz and today has…
(The paperback edition of Work at Home is being offered for free for a limited time only. You do have to pay for shipping. You can order your free copy of Work at Home right here.) “Making money is not…
(UPDATED SEPTEMBER 20, 2019) Linda Evenson is the founder of a very successful scopist training course called Internet Scoping School. She freelanced as a scopist full time for 20 years before deciding to teach others how to earn money in…
(UPDATED OCTOBER 6, 2019) As more and more entrepreneurs create successful online businesses, there is an increasing need for them to hire people to assist them. The person who assists someone online in running their business is called a virtual…
I hate my job. This is a phrase stated by so many people. Increasing numbers of people, actually. Most would probably like to find another job. But it’s so difficult to leave the security of one thing and start another.…
(UPDATED MARCH 10, 2019) You may be one of the growing number of people who wants to walk out of your stifling office job and into the freedom of being self employed working online. Or you may already be living…
Almost no one has heard the word scopist. Spell checks don’t recognize it, autofills think you want to type science, scoop or socialist, and if you mention the word scopist to someone, they’ll probably say "what's a scopist?" (This post…
