There are many freelancers who earn their living entirely from various freelancing activities such as web design, editing, copy-writing etc. However, they all have the following five traits in common and this article will reflect some lights on these traits:

Design/Write Each Day

The primary attraction towards freelance work is due to the fact that the freelancers love what they do. They have the love for writing or drawing or whatever skill they have developed. And by involving this to a freelancing career path is one of the most desirable to them as that means bringing money for something he would have done anyway. It pushes them to cling to their work everyday.

Being Proactive

When they have designed something really good or have written down something worthy, they do not sit back and expect the local newspapers or magazines to call them up for the material, instead, the freelancers are proactive in letting the local publishers know that they have something at hand. Most of the freelancers tend to market their product in as many places as they can. They have the habit of taking the initiative in their own hand.

This is the last segment of our four part series of helpful freelance resources on the web:

FreelanceTipster

Designed and decorated in a very relaxing and easy structure. This web portal will give you a number of articles in almost every aspects of freelancing. However, the total number of article is not that on a higher side. But portal for some reason is gone out of maintenance and is no more updated after July 2007. In its Resources section, it has a list of well recommended books.

MainFrame.GR

A web portal with extremely simple and nice design to deal with. However, it is not purely a site for Freelancers ONLY, as it has a lot of side categories such as Computing, Audios, General discussions. Along with some regular freelancing tips, this portal actually focuses more on different computing issues and particularly web related technologies. It also doesn’t have a huge number of articles, but the ones are hosted are of really good quality.

HRWorld

Well, this portal is not so much about freelancers but nevertheless contains some very good articles on the lives and work pattern of freelancers worldwide. This site is more concerned about the management and deployment of quality manpower at workplace.  It also hosting a lot of information on investment related issues. The tools section got a variety of calculation programs to precisely estimate different investment outcomes, and the dictionary section contains a huge investment related terminologies. You can subscribe yourself to its RSS feeder as I did.

Digital-Web

Again, a portal mainly dedicated to professional web designers, web developers and information architects. It actually has a lot of useful articles on freelancing. However, the article repository is extremely huge and a major share of those is dedicated to computing professionals of almost every type. The overall designs again very smooth and easy to deal with. The event section is full of latest and upcoming events on IT world.

FreelanceWrite.About

It’s a section of popular web portal “About.com”. It has an incredible amount of information on Freelancing. From ground up to the last level. It touches upon almost every single characteristic of mainly a freelancer writer and people who want to fire up a business in freelance mode. Overall a great site to really dig a massive information repository.

With this article, we end our four part series of useful web resources for freelancers. If you miss out the previous parts, check out the Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.