Hey!

 

I just got back from buying out the lease on my car (the one I signed minutes after my biggest client at the time killed our contract.) When we got to the income/job part, the finance guy made a comment that I was “doing well for somebody who works from home.”

 

I chuckled, because we were talking about my income from last year. It had jumped significantly just a few months after that and was holding steady. Before freelancing I wouldn’t have understood that. I was used to annual raises, and mostly small ones.

 

Employment conditions us in so many ways.

 

It conditions us to think change can’t come, and if it can, that it’s far away in terms of time and effort. But freelancing is different.

 

I’ve seen my income almost double in just a couple of months, just from making a few shifts in my marketing and raising my rates. Tons of freelancers tell the same story — not 10% raises, but their income jumping by 25, 50, 100% and more just from small changes to their business.

 

Know that change can be right around the corner…if you’re strategic.

 

 

 

Megan

 

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