So, you decided to become a member of The Great “Resig-Nation” and strike out on your own as a freelancer. Or, perhaps you retired from a fulfilling career but aren’t ready to sit back in your easy chair and while away the hours. Maybe you were laid off from your…

There was a time when advertisers and marketers were at the center of the marketing universe. Messages were broadcast in a one-way fashion to largely passive consumers. Today, thanks to social media, our prospects and customers are talking to each other about our company, products, services, industry, and competitors, whether…

I started blogging in December 2003 and found it to be a very pleasurable exercise. But what started as a hobby eventually morphed into a business. Along the way, blogging stopped being fun and started to become more like work. When it did, my posting slowed down dramatically to the…

Okay… it’s really more like five or ten, but I had Paul Simon on the brain when I wrote this. More and more people aged 50 and older are discovering the joys of freelancing. In fact, more people in every adult generation are freelancing. “Freelance Forward: 2021,” the most comprehensive…

I recall it like it was yesterday. As a child sitting on the floor of our family room near the television, not because I had difficulty seeing the screen, but because, invariably, my father would want the channel changed and guess who would be the one to do it. This…

I am sitting in front of a blank piece of digital paper asking myself what business do I have writing about freelancing after fifty? The truth is, I have plenty. I’ve been a freelancer on and off — this is my third time out — for the past 16 years…

Do you recall the days of classic Agent 007, James Bond? (Sean Connery was my favorite.) He was suave, debonair, and hardly ever got a scratch. Bond drove expensive cars, wore fabulous clothes, ate at the finest restaurants, and always, always got the girl. There was a time when advertising…