7 mistakes most freelancers make (and how to fix them)

Odds are you've fallen into one of these traps, but avoiding them altogether can set you apart from the crowd.

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Hello friends, and welcome to the second post in our Intro to Freelancing series this month!

As we all know, there are a million ways to trip yourself up as a freelancer, with many of these missteps attributable to simply not knowing you should or shouldn’t do that. A vast, vast majority of those are easy-to-fix mistakes that are much simpler than you might expect, and avoiding these common slip-ups can really set you apart from the crowd.

Here are nine of the most common ones to avoid. And, as always, everything below is a guideline and not a rule — there are veeeery few hard-and-fast rules in freelancing. (Though there are a few.) So with that in mind, let’s dive in!