My slides for my presentation at the first Ignite Orlando

1. Freelance In The New Economy By me. (with a lot of help from freelanceswitch.com)

2. Prioritize Clients Not all clients are created equal. Because of this, you should not spend equal time and resources for each of your clients

3. Evaluate Current Clients Make a list of the pros / cons of your clients

5. Pay on time

6. Pay well

7. Have potential for new work

9. Unstable

10. Morally objectionable

11. Keep one main client Of your awesome clients, pick one that's most stable, and try to make it at least a simple majority of your work (50.1%).

12. Have an interesting client Everyone likes something other than work. Find a client that's doing work that you'd like to do if you weren't a freelancer. If you like comic books, get a comic book client.

13. Find New Clients After you've figured out who the clients are that you want to keep, you'll probably need to figure out where new work is coming in from.

14. Old Skool Networking Facebook is cool, but the bar is better.

15. U Need Communication Skillz When you're at the bar, shut-up. If someone is talking to you, they want to talk _to_ you. Don't interrupt people. Be polite. Be friendly. Be geniune.

16. Use CoLab There's this awesome place to get work / opportunity. Use it.

17. When it's time to work, do it Don't even look at your XBox bad

18. Don't Be Flaky If the work starts to suck, don't flake out. Remember that it sucked, and don't get more work like that. Don't ever bitch out.

19. Figure out what makes you productive, and get more of that in your work life

20. “Hustle” It's true.

21. Save Money. If you're making good money, stock some away. Eventually, money will dry up. Cash flow problems is the number 1 killer of businesses

22. Don't wait for government Politics aside, nobody is going to save you. Don't be a victim of circumstance. You're an entrepreneur

23. Don't burn out!!!

24. Find what inspires you, and get more of that. Inspiration is work, what gasoline is to cars

25. Get more info (Google it) Don't listen to me. I don't know what I'm doing.