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The Wealthy Freelancer: 12 Secrets to a Great Income and an Enviable Lifestyle

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There are two types of freelancers this book will help - those just starting out and those who have been struggling to achieve their dreams of becoming a wealthy freelancer.

If you are just starting out, this is a great resource that will save you countless hours of going down the wrong trail. If you have been at it for awhile but not achieving the success you desire, this book will give you some solid tips and techniques to get you on the right path.

The first thing you should get clear about is being a wealthy freelancer means different things to different people. It is not all about money. Money is important and this book has plenty of tips on how to increase your income. But living the life you want is much more important than just making money. So this book has lots of tips and suggestions on how to decide what is important to you and how to balance your work with other areas of your life.

The book starts off with a discussion about what being a wealthy freelancer really means. This sets the tone for the rest of the book. It is very important that you understand the realities of being a freelancer, both the benefits and the downside.

Then the next twelve chapters give secrets to being a successful freelancer - starting with the most important secret - Mastering the Mental Game. "Research continues to tell us that most people simply do not take the time to set goals and put them in writing." If you are going to be successful, you must get clear on what you want, who you want to work with and what value you are going to bring to your clients.

Another very important secret is how to create an amazing buzz piece. The authors go into great detail to explain what a buzz piece is and how to craft one that will attract potential clients. They give one of the best blueprints for creating a USP that I have seen. If you don't know what a USP is or have not crafted your own, you really need to get this book.

There are 10 other secrets to help any freelancer move forward toward their goals. At the end of each chapter is a summary - called Wealthy Takeaways- which recaps the important points in that chapter. Also there are lots or additional resources throughout the book.

This is a very well organized and written book. It is not based on some theory. It is written as a joint effort of three highly successful freelancers. They each give very specific examples from their own experience. You will get great value from reading this book. Implement the lessons and you can become a wealthy freelancer.

As an experienced writer new to promotional freelance writing, I've read many books covering various aspects of copywriting.

This book---which marries the insights of three successful freelance copywriters---is the standout. Forget the overpriced ebooks and programs of AWAI--read and reread "The Wealthy Freelancer" and take the advice and exercises to heart.

Along with Peter Bowerman's "Well-Fed Writer" this is one of the two best books on the topic. Bowerman, however, is a generalist--an approach that may not work well for many people. In contrast, Slaunwhite, Savage, and Gandia provide an approach designed to help the entrepreneurial freelancer develop specialty areas that will set him/her apart from the generalists.

I cannot recommend this book strongly enough. It is solid, hype-free, practical, and well written.

Whether you are new to freelancing or an experienced freelancer, this book has something to offer.

I had downloaded "The Wealthy Freelancer" to my Kindle for a plane trip to and from Austin, TX. I thought just to pass the time. Boy, did I ever pass the time quickly. These guys have written an amazingly compelling page turner that will resonate with new freelancers just having made the leap as well as old hands who think they have seen and heard it all. I am always skeptical about books like this, thinking it's just so much cheer leading. This is anything but that. From the opening chapter it is crystal clear that these guys have the street cred to talk the talk. I was disturbing my seat mate on the flight by periodically saying aloud, "I've done that" or "I've thought that" or "Damn Right!" This is a book that I will keep as a reference manual and a booster shot for those times when I need reminding why I escaped from my office cubicle. In summation I would say you can read "The Wealthy Freelancer" now or waste several years of your life, read it later and say, "Why didn't I think of that."

This book is well above average for its genre. No, that's not damning with faint praise, it's saying that you don't have to be into hype or marketing-speak to enjoy and benefit from it. Underneath the cheerleader-y language is... solid substance. It covers a wide array of freelancing issues, from marketing and pricing to time management and quality of life. If you're curious about the freelancing life, just starting out as a freelancer, or ready to take it to the next level, this book is worth reading. One of the things I liked best about it is that it doesn't take an all-or-nothing approach. You could apply the whole thing as a program, or take one piece of advice out of it and tweak one part of your practice.

Oddly, in spite of definitely NOT looking for an inspirational thing, I found myself looking at some of my "nahhh, that's probably unreachable" ideas in a new light after reading the book. But I also found some practical advice -- especially about marketing and pricing -- that cleared up what I was beginning to think of as hopeless mysteries.

If you're not sure if you want the book, go to their website and download the free sample chapters. Also, if you put it in your Amazon shopping cart and save it until you need something to kick your purchase price over the free-shipping limit, it will end up costing you less than a semi-decent lunch out.

The words "Wealthy" and "Freelancer" don't seem to go together. It punches holes in the whole starving artist picture of freelancing--and yes that is the purpose of this book. Three respected authors combine forces to produce a business book which is loaded with insight for freelancers at every level.

Freelancers are notorious procrastinators. In Secret 8 on Focus, Pete Savage write, "Focus is what helped me go from barely paying the bills to busting through the six-figure income barrier." (page 148). If you want to take your business to a new level of income and effectiveness, then you need to read and re-read the wisdom packed into these pages.

I know there are a lot of freelancers working 10 hours a day, 6 days a week... but getting paid like it's a weekend hobby. They're the "starving artists" of the freelance world.

But I also know freelance writers, designers, consultants, and photographers who are making a very good living (from $80,000 well into six-figures). They command this kind of income because they're serious...

They treat their work like a serious business. The "starving artist" crowd protests that they take their work very seriously, and I believe they do... but they don't take the business of their work seriously.

Freelancers who treat the business side of their work seriously can easily raise their fees, keep a steady flow of new clients, and have their work appreciated by their clients.

That's what "The Wealthy Freelancer" is really about: How to turn your freelance job into a profitable freelance business.

Ed, Pete, and Steve have put together a no-fluff, step-by-step guide to building the freelance business and life of your dreams. This is the book I wish I had when I started my own freelance business. I can't recommend it highly enough.

It's not often I read a book that is worth its weight in gold, but that's what I discovered when I read The Wealthy Freelancer. You need to have been in business at least five to seven years to glean the street cred you'll find in this book -- and that kind of experience doesn't come cheap.

Except now you don't have to learn things the hard way nor spend thousands of dollars for some over-hyped, over-priced program -- you can just read this book.

You'll learn everything from the "practical tactical" such as how to prospect for clients to the more "woo woo" things such as why keeping a positive mental attitude is so important. I highly recommend this book to *anyone* who is either starting a freelance business or who has been in business but wants to get to the next level. Five stars.

If you've read a few of these types of books, you know that they are often full of hype and cheerleading. This book largely avoids those pitfalls, and manages to offer some practical advice in every chapter. I've been a business owner since 1996 and a freelancer since 2005. These guys were right on the money in terms of identifying some of my bad habits and thought patterns, and presenting some new thinking. Yes, the authors try to brand every concept with a proprietary name and TM mark, but that's just how these books are done. Ignore that, and this book represents money and time well spent.

I didn't know what to expect with this book but was genuinely blown away by the number of valuable tips, techniques, and highly usable technologies presented by Slaunwhite, Savage and Gandia. They have a knack for coming up with clever visuals that perfectly illustrate hard-to-express concepts, things we freelancers all FEEL but don't know how to put into words.

How do you stay on a potential client's radar without bugging him or her?

TWF maps it out for you.

How do you add value to your website while building a database of potential client emails?

TWF shows you how.

How can you work to ensure that even though you're swamped with work today, you won't be scrounging desperately for work six months from now?

Again, TWF comes to the rescue.

I've dog-eared a number of pages and intend to reread a second time, implementing some of the advice they recommend.

This isn't a money management book; it's much more valuable. It's a book that thinks carefully about the freelancer's perpetual tradeoff: time = money.

As such, I consider the book a genuine addition to the world of success literature, right up there with the works of Napoleon Hill, Jack Canfield, Franklin Covey, etc., albeit for those without regular jobs.

If you work for yourself, I think you really need to know about this book.

I guarantee you that many freelancers you know are going to be talking about this one.

While I think this book has a great amount of advice it also has a lot of stuff that is just extra stuff. I got this book at the same time I got Starting your career as a freelance writer and I saw that the other book has so much more information for a semi-beginner like myself. If you buy this book buy another one also. It's not the type of book that can help you every step in this career. But it does give you 12 great tips.