Hit Subscribe Freelancer Q&A

If you're offering services as a freelancer, does it make sense to unbundle strategy from labor? This episode digs into that question.

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If you have a single big client, engaging your services for an unspecified amount of time, it can be easy to fall into an employee-employer style relationship. How can you avoid that?

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• CSuite Content published a guide to brand strategy consulting firms and how to choose the right partner.
• Enov8 shared a ...

For a while, I was getting a lot of questions about whether something would be a good niche for indies. In this video, I answer the question of whether improving code performance is a good niche.

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Links of the week:

• CSuite Content published an introduction to personal PR and managing your personal brand.
• Enov8 has a new guide to GCP data masking.
• InfluxData added a...

You may hear the terms "niche" and "positioning" tossed around a lot, often interchangeably. What do these really mean, and what's the difference?

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Links of the week:

• CSuite Content just shared a guide to enterprise reputation management.

• Enov8 has a new checklist for DLP.

• InfluxData recently updated a node red dashboard tutorial for 2026.

• Unusual VC has an ...

Maybe you're currently employed or between jobs. But it occurs to you that you want to go off on your own and start consulting (as opposed to freelancing with labor services). How do you do that?

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Links of the week:

• CSuite Content has a practical guide to executive bios for business leaders.

• Enov8 shared a clear explainer on Oracle ERP data masking.

• InfluxData...

Plenty of employees entertain the idea of going freelance. But one of the biggest barriers to entry is the perceived risk of doing so. Is there a way to jump to freelancing with minimal risk?

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Links of the week:

• CSuite Content published a practical guide to Gen-Z slang for business leaders.

• Enov8 shared a clear explainer on SAP data masking.

• InfluxData put tog...

In this installment, a question submitter wonders whether it would be better to earn promotions into leadership before leaving the salaried world, or whether to leave as an individual contributor. Which is the right path?

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Links of the week:

• CSuite Content published a practical guide on how often executives should post on social media, including benchmarks and stra...

Occasionally, you might find yourself with a whale client, or at least a profitable one, that treats you poorly and shows no trust in you. How should you handle this?

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Links of the week:

• Enov8 published a helpful guide to data masking tools (and they also define data masking, if you're interested).
• Our friends over at CSuite Content published an...

Occasionally, you might find yourself with a whale client, or at least a profitable one, that treats you poorly and shows no trust in you. How should you handle this?

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Links of the week:

• Enov8 has a helpful guide to test data management.
• The DataOpsZone community site has a handy explainer about the concept ...

Sometimes a client is looking for labor and expects you to bundle in the strategic piece. For instance, they expect architecture to come along with a software development project. How to handle this?

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Links of the week:

• Enov8 recently published a take on application portfolio management best practices, for you enterprise fans.
• Spin has a round-up of the t...

Depending on fate to bring you business can lead to gaps between projects. How do you setup some kind of sales funnel and get leads into it to avoid these gaps?

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Links of the week:

• Enov8's guide to data masking. 
• This comparison of Logstash and Fluentd from Sawmills.
• Tr...

You're collaborating with your client on a time-sensitive deadline and you get sick.  How should you handle that?  Whose problem is it, ultimately?

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Links of the week:

• Enov8's list of enterprise architecture tools to be aware of in 2025. 
• This introduction to the subject of log parsing from Sa...

You've got a full-time job but want to go indie, and you line up your first contract. How do you think about how much runway you need to create between current savings and that first contract, for when it expires?

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Links of the week:

• A post from Sawmills, which introduces log parsing, explains its importance for transforming unstructured logs into actionable data a...

If you've built an audience on a platform other than your own website, how do you go about turning that following into a marketing funnel for something you're offering?

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Links of the week:

• This post from BlinkOps explains Identity and Access Management (IAM) automation.
• A Testim blog post that provides an overview of six JavaScript editors.
• A Sawmills post that giv...

It will sometimes come up that a prospect or client asks you to implement something that's either too vague to work or a flat-out bad idea. What should you do in this situation?

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Links of the week:

• This round-up of application portfolio management tools from our friends at Enov8.
• Regression testing for Workday, from our friends at Tricentis (also in Germa...

I do a lot of theory in this series, but here's something practical. How would I recommend someone price an hour-long training session to teach social media tactics to a salesforce? Join us to learn more.

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Links of the week:

• Sprint Scheduling: A Guide to Your Agile Calendar
• Not only do our friends at Tricentis offer Tosca, a powerful end-to-end testing tool, they also have sites availabl...