Creating a Freelance Career

Jill L. Ferguson is the former chief of staff of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Senior Commission; the former department chair of General Education, assessment coordinator, and a professor at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music; and a senior lecturer in the School of Business and Management at Notre Dame de Namur University. Jill has been a freelancer writer since she was first published at age 12. She is an award-winning writer, an artist, a business and higher education consultant, and a serial entrepreneur. She is the author of eight books and has written for the Washington Post, Huffington Post, Sierra Club Magazine, and more than 200 other magazines, newspapers, and websites.

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Chapter One: What It Means to Freelance (Or Jumping In With Your Eyes Wide Open)
Chapter Two: Making Contact and Getting Work
Chapter Three: What to Expect from Your Contract Employer (And What They Should Expect from You)
Chapter Four: How to Build Your Business and Your Brand
Chapter Five: Sustaining and Expanding Your Business
Chapter Six: So You Want to Write a Book or Publish Other Content?
Chapter Seven: Resources to Rock Your Freelance Career

Appendix A

Author Bio

Contributor’s Bios

Index