EarnBunny / Freelancing
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Finding clients, quoting work, writing contracts, and getting paid on time. Less about hustle mindset, more about the specific email that got a reply and the clause that stopped a project doubling in size for free.
Newest first
Job boards paid roughly a third of what direct clients paid for identical work. Every quote, every reply, and every ghost, logged.
Two channels, eight weeks, the same portfolio. One produced work in nine days; the other produced work worth keeping.
Vague scope is survivable. These nine are not, and each one has cost a reader real money.
What to ask before anyone says a number, and why leading with your rate loses you the room.
The switch from project work to a monthly fee, including the message that made it happen and the two objections that came back.
Six pieces beat twenty-two. What we saw when we asked eleven hiring clients to review reader portfolios out loud.
We asked 180 freelancers to log every unbilled extra request. The pattern is depressingly consistent, and mostly preventable.
Median: 41 days. Here is what the fast quartile did differently, and it was not talent.
Three ways to decline that keep the door open, plus when to burn the bridge on purpose.
What to hand off first, how to price it so you still make money, and the legal bit people skip.
The Payout · every Tuesday
Plus the rates behind both, pulled from what readers actually got paid last week. Free, and it stays that way.
No sponsored gigs in the main list. When a link pays us, it says so on the line above it.