Freelancing Blog

Explore the following articles from a variety of freelance professionals.

Written by Jason Montoya. Posted in Stories.

Lessons Learned From Earning $72,246.98 During My First 9 Months of Freelancing

Written by Jason Montoya. Posted in Toolbox.

Sales & Customer Relationship Management (CRM) For Freelancers

Written by Jason Montoya. Posted in Toolbox.

Image Manipulation & Graphic Design Tools For Freelancers

Written by Jason Montoya. Posted in Toolbox.

Freelancers, Here Are The Best Free Stock Imagery Sources

Written by Jason Montoya. Posted in Toolbox.

Freelancer Browser Plugins

Written by Jason Montoya on 08 January 2025. Posted in Toolbox.

Writing Tools For Freelancers

Explore the following tools for equipping and empowering freelance writers.

Evernote: Remember Everything. Inspiration strikes anywhere. Evernote lets you capture, nurture, and share your ideas across any device.
Grammarly: Your writing, at its best. Grammarly makes sure everything you type is easy to read, effective, and mistake-free. Instantly fix over 250 types of errors, most of which Microsoft Word® can’t find.
Headline Analyzer: Want to write better headlines? The free blog post headline analyzer will score your overall headline quality and rate its ability to result in social shares, increased traffic, and SEO value.
Golden Ratio Typography Calculator: Discover the perfect typography for your website by entering your current font size and content width. Optimize your typography based on font size, line-height, width, and characters per line (CPL). Explore finely-tuned and downright sexy typographical recommendations.
Text Fixer: This website mainly features free online tools. The tools are divided into two groups: text tools and html tools. They're all completely free to use and should work for most modern computers and mobile devices.
Diff Checker: Diff Checker is an online diff tool to compare text differences between two text files.
Hemmingway Editor: The Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear. The app highlights long, complex sentences and common errors; if you see a yellow sentence, shorten or split it.
LanguageTool: LanguageTool is an open-source proofreading program for English, French, German, Polish, and more than 20 other languages. It finds many errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect and several grammar problems.
After The Deadline: You'll write better and spend less time editing. After the Deadline is a language checker for the web with: Contextual Spell Checking, Advanced Style Checking, & Intelligent Grammar Checking.

Written by Jason Montoya on 23 December 2024. Posted in Toolbox.

Email Marketing Tools For Freelancers

Whether you are leveraging email to market your freelancing business or you're using a system for your freelance client, here are your vital email marketing tools for your freelancing toolbox.

Written by Jason Montoya on 07 January 2025. Posted in Stories.

Lessons Learned From Earning $72,246.98 During My First 9 Months of Freelancing

2014 was my first year going all in as a freelancer. And at the end of the year, I had earned over $70,000 unexpectedly.

In the following video, I'm gonna share with you what I did that was so effective, and I'm also gonna share with you my story of how things unfolded. And, I'll share how I ended up getting to that financial outcome. By the end of this video, I want you to have ideas and tangible actions you can take to either launch into freelancing, or if you're already a freelancer, so that you can take advantage of the opportunities before you and supercharge your income.

The mindset, habits, and systems I'm going to share with you in this video are what enabled me to earn the $72K+ during my first year of which I continue to build upon. Before I dive into those ideas, let's rewind.

Written by Jason Montoya on 23 December 2024. Posted in Toolbox.

Sales & Customer Relationship Management (CRM) For Freelancers

This post includes affiliate links, which means I get a commission if you sign up and that helps me create more helpful content for freelancers.

CRM systems help us organize our contacts, leads, and customers to streamline and remember our prospect and client communications. These are powerful CRM systems worth exploring.

Written by Jason Montoya on 28 December 2024. Posted in Toolbox.

Image Manipulation & Graphic Design Tools For Freelancers

Whether you're a seasoned graphic designer or just starting to explore the world of visual creation, having the right tools at your disposal is essential. This post highlights various image manipulation and graphic design software, ranging from powerful desktop applications to user-friendly online platforms.

Written by Jason Montoya on 28 December 2024. Posted in Toolbox.

Freelancers, Here Are The Best Free Stock Imagery Sources

If you're like me, you're constantly using stock imagery for yourself or your clients. Sometimes, a paid subscription to a paid image site is not an option. Here is a list of image repositories, many of which you can use for free and on commercial projects.

Written by Jason Montoya on 23 December 2024. Posted in Toolbox.

Freelancer Browser Plugins

Where would we be without powerful browser plugins? Here's a quick list of browser plugins I leverage as a freelancer to stay effective and efficient.