Episode 50: Feast and Famine and Freelancing

Dear Instructional Designer

In this episode, I try my hand at answering one of the toughest questions around becoming a freelancer: How does that whole feast and famine cycle work?

Resources

• Freelancer's Union Resources: https://blog.freelancersunion.org/
• Breaking the Feast and Famine Cycle: https://blog.freelancersunion.org/2018/05/30/breaking-the-freelance-feast-or-famine-cycle/
• Are you Charging Enough? https://blog.freelancersunion.org/2018/05/24/are-you-charging-enough-probably-not/
• On Workflows: https://blog.trello.com/what-is-a-workflow-and-why-do-you-need-it
• Station app: https://getstation.com/
• Pomodoro Technique: https://lifehacker.com/productivity-101-a-primer-to-the-pomodoro-technique-1598992730
• Value Based Pricing Tips:
  • https://medium.com/the-apartment/a-freelancers-guide-to-value-based-pricing-5c7c29580cd6
  • https://www.forbes.com/sites/ianaltman/2015/10/08/how-to-shift-from-hourly-to-value-based-pricing/#296c85623467