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Thursday, November 17, 2016

Freelance is not for Pussy Cats

Confidence is a huge key when branching off on your own venture of any kind, whether that be freelancing as a writer or creating your own product.
Confidence has not always been my strong point, however I've been working on it. I've been terrified about revamping and publishing my writer website.
It took a lot of courage and as much confidence as I could muster this week to finally publish my official professional freelance writer website.

Annajauhola.com has been mine since last year, but it sucked until this week.
(Screenshot of my welcome page)
Now, I'm not a web designer. Nor am I a designer of any kind, unless you count designing stories with words. Haha.
Anyway, I don't think my website turned out too bad. It's clean, easy to follow and straightforward.
At least I hope so.
Step A of my next big test in gaining and keeping confidence is getting beta readers. What're those? People who will look at my site, tell me if it's any good and what I could do to improve it. For free, of course, because I'm just starting out. :)
Step B will be to contact and attract clients. For this portion, I'm working my way through Build Your Biz Challenge with Sagan Morrow! I'm also still using some great hints and tricks from Jorden Roper.
These two ladies have been the most helpful and give the most amazing advice and support I've received since I started my freelancing journey. A HUGE thanks to both of them!
I'm finding more confidence through BYBC and both ladies' blogs, along with the Facebook community Sagan created for BYBC.
Any freelancers, whether you're just starting out or you've been at it forever, check out Sagan's and Jorden's site for amazing tips, tricks, advice and continuing education. Perhaps check out my site too!

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