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.   Links of the Week:  Learn Regression testing Get started with Kafka and Docker in 20 minutes 8 CI/CD Best Practices for Your DevOps Journey

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 here. This podcast is courtesy of Hit Subscribe, a content agency whose authors are all techies: https://www.hitsubscribe.com/ Link of the week: Testim Salesforce Testing

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

As a freelancer, you'll find that your income tends to be a lot more variable and less dependent than salaried work. How do you deal with that situation, both in terms of financial planning and making things more predictable? Join us to learn more.  View as a video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm5K4YiTf8o   Link of the week: Serverless Computing for Dummies

When you have your own practice or business, lead generation is obviously critical. But how should you go about it and, specifically, is LinkedIn a good channel for lead generation? Join us to learn more. View this podcast as a video on Youtube. Links of the Week: The basics of secret management Learn: AI in Software Testing

Insurance is pretty straightforward for those in the salaried world. But when you go off on your own, how does it work? What kinds of insurance do you need to think about, and how do you obtain them?   Link of the week: Your Complete Guide to Test Automation Frameworks

This is something near and dear to the heart of any freelancer. The time has come and you've decided you need to raise your rates. How do you tell your clients about it, and how do you manage this process of rate raising in general?   Link of the week: How To Test Proxies

Anyone who has hung out their shingle to freelance has likely encountered the so-called "feast or famine" cycle. What is this, why is it suboptimal, how do you get out of it, and how long does it take to get out?   Link of the week: The Pros and Cons of Test Data Synthetics (or Data Fabrication)

Sick time is pretty straightforward for employees. But how does this work when you go off on your own as a freelancer? How do freelancers handle it when they get sick? Link Picks Check out Tricentis Tosca: Intelligent test automationEver wondered why distributed apps need dependency management?

You're thinking of starting a business or a freelance practice. Should you name the business and website after yourself, or should you create a separate brand for it?   Links of the week: What Makes a Good Enterprise Release Manager? Understanding Playwright Selectors: A Guide Microservice tools: The top 10 for monitoring and testing Apex Triggers in Salesforce: A Beginner’s Guide Learn Data integrity Android emulator vs. real device testing: Key differences Android testing: An easy introduction with examples

If you're working on significant projects in parallel for multiple clients, you might find yourself mentally "thrashing," or struggling with the context switching between the different projects. How do you handle that?   Links of the week: Get started with GitHub Actions Test Environments: Why You Need Them and How to Set It Up Playwright and GitHub Actions: Getting Started How to Call Batch Apex in Salesforce, the Quick and Easy Way Learn Regression testing

People toss around the terms "freelancer" and "consultant" a lot -- often interchangeably. But what does each really mean, and what's the difference?   Link picks:  Learn to create a Kubernetes cluster in AWSWhat does bimodal mean in the context of release managment?Need to create multiple Facebook accounts? Proxyrack has a guide for that.A tutorial to help you get started with Salesforce QA and TestingCheck out our friend Tricentis for all your test automation needs

Is it a problem for you, as a freelancer, to have just one or two large clients? The short, easy answer is "yes," but I've got a much more detailed explanation in this episode.   Links of the week: Get started with Kafka and Docker in 20 minutes Data Compliance: A Detailed Guide for IT Leaders Web Scraping in JavaScript: A Guide

You may have heard the term "retainer" as a modifier to describe a kind of consultant. What is a retainer, exactly, and how does it work? Join us to learn more. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * I couldn't actually find where Jonathan Stark talked about the stages of problem solving. Happy to update with a link if someone knows where that is. In the meantime, here's a link to his site: https://jonathanstark.com/   Picks: Learn about data pipelinesExploratory Testing 101An excellent post about test data managementWeb scraping in JS

You'll hear a lot of conventional wisdom that anyone with a business should do content marketing. Is that right, and, if so, what do you need and how should you get started doing it?   Picks: Learn what a production environment isCheck out this blog post on how to define enterprise IT environmentsProxyrack offers global rotating datacenter proxiesThis is a great guide for learning the world of performance testing

As a freelancer, should you enlist paid advertising to help you get work? The answer, in most cases, is no, but tune in to hear why and what the exceptions might be. Join us to learn more. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * The E-Myth Revisited: Amazon Link   Picks: A guide to getting started with the Terraform Kubernetes providerSand Castles and DevOps at ScaleImprove your online gaming experience with Proxyrack proxiesConsidering stress testing? Check out Neoload