Managing Freelance Workload: Balancing Busy and Slow Periods

Managing Freelance Workload: Balancing Busy and Slow PeriodsManaging Freelance Workload: Balancing Busy and Slow Periods

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Emmanuel Aderemi

• 6h

As a freelancer, I have a question on my mind Does this happen to everyone, one week you have more project to deal that it can nearly bury you in work the next, you feel like your skill is wasting to lack of work. What do you guy do in the stage?

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Namu Park

pro

• May 23

Do you ever wonder how other designers put together proposals?

Even I have no social media presence (I have 86 followers on X), I was able to scale to $10k/month because my proposals helped me close clients.

After hearing that other junior freelancers found my proposal process helpful, I created a simplified sample template based on my real proposals. I’m giving it away for free for a week. If interested, check out: https://x.com/namu_paak/status/2057940441119789388?s=20

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Pradyumn Vaishnav

max

• May 22

Built to showcase what we do best!

Now open for new projects & collaborations.

Prad.dev is live now ✨

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Sahil Dobariya

pro

• May 23

The design of the floating top header is exceptionally polished.

Eunice Thiru

• May 23

Honest confession as a beginner Virtual Assistant 🙋🏾‍♀️

Nobody tells you that the hardest part of starting out as a VA is not the work.

It is the waiting.

You set up your profile. You write what feels like the perfect proposal. You hit send. And then... nothing. You refresh the page every 20 minutes like that is going to change something.

You start questioning everything.

Is my rate too high? Is my profile good enough? Did they even read it? Should I just give up?

And meanwhile you are watching other VAs on LinkedIn talking about their fifth client this month and you are still waiting on your first.

What nobody tells you is that every single one of those VAs sat exactly where you are sitting right now.

The first client is the hardest. Not because you are not good enough. But because you have not been given the chance to prove it yet.

So if you are a beginner VA reading this at 11pm wondering if this is even worth it.... It is. Keep going. Your first client is closer than you think. 💛

Drop a 💛 if you needed to hear this today.

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