As a freelancer, you may understand more than most that customers are the life of a business. This may seem like a moot point, but no clients mean no business. To survive in this business style, you must know how to get more clients. Being an independent or freelance...
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Yes, There Is Health Insurance for Freelance Workers
For many workers, two main obstacles prevent them from chasing a freelance life: lack of job security and no access to benefits such as health insurance plans. While your career may lend itself perfectly to freelance life, fear that you will lack medical coverage can...
How To Make a Good Freelancer Profile and Get Noticed by Clients
As a freelancer, it’s one thing to have relevant skills and experience in your industry. It’s another thing entirely to acquire clients and keep them coming back while referring their colleagues to your exemplary services. Here’s how to make a good freelancer profile...
5 Portfolio Career Jobs You Can Do From Anywhere
Leaving the grind of corporate 9-to-5 in favor of a job you can do from anywhere is a tantalizing carrot to dangle in front of your nose. Though it’s tempting to fantasize about the beach onto which you’ll plunk your towel and laptop, be savvy about a big leap to a...
10 Tips to Become a Full-Time Freelancer
Since the world we live in now is unique, it has created individual needs for today's workplace: enter the full-time freelancer's rise. So you want to be a freelancer all the time? Here are some great full-time freelancer tips to help you start your journey -- and for...
The Freelance Career: Benefits of a Portfolio Life
There was a time when a freelance career was solely the preserve of the very brave or already wealthy. The concept of throwing out a steady 9-to-5 and guaranteed paycheck to go it alone was considered a risk reserved only for the few. As the working world has changed,...
Laid Off or Let Go? Start a New Career Now
With the current global situation, an increasing number of workers are on the hunt to pursue a new career path. Whether by choice or circumstance, the chance to start a new career has never been more appealing. Despite things seeming bleak, your job search can offer a...
Why Introverts Are Great at Sales
Sales professional as a term is not typically synonymous with "introvert" as a personality type. Breaking the mold is a mark of a great sales pro, however. Here at Voyageur U, introverts can find guidance along their path to success as a great sales pro. Defining the...
How to Get Unstuck and Get the Career You Want
For many of us, it can sometimes feel impossible to get the career you want. Perhaps you have already invested time, money, and energy in training. Maybe you have a family relying on you or other financial commitments. All of these are excuses to stay in an unhappy...
8 Jobs You Can Freelance
As the world changes and the workplace evolves, freelancing has become a popular conversation topic once more. Jobs you can freelance are becoming more appealing as we battle uncertainty, confusion, and restrictions. They also have the added advantage of a shorter...