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When you’re a freelancer, you often find yourself doing several jobs. You may design, develop, write, manage, bill, consult and answer the phone. Unfortunately, while we’re busy taking care of all these roles in the day-to-day management of our business, we forget to step back and take a look at the long term.

Working on the business may not seem important when you’ve got ten active clients and six projects due this week, however it’s an important task you need to take care of, if you ever plan on growing your business (whether you plan to stay a single person business or not).

What exactly is working on your business versus working in it? Working in your business means taking care of the daily things, the clients, the billing, and the actual work. Working on your business, however, deals with stepping back and seeing how your business can improve, where you want your business to go, and so on. You should aim to try and work on your business, at least for a few hours every month.

Let’s take a look at some of the ways you can work on your business.

How Can Your Business Improve?

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Do you have a degree or formal training in writing?

If you answered “no,” you can still pick up some crucial writing skills. There are a number of free online writing courses for the shrewd freelancer to take advantage of.

Writing skills are important for all freelancers. If you think about it, we freelancers do an awful lot of writing. We write emails to clients, we write content for our websites, we write proposals, and so on.

However, all of that writing won’t do us any good if it’s full of mistakes. You can learn to improve your writing skills at no cost to you.

In this post, we list ten free online writing courses. We also discuss what to expect from a free online course and explain how you can find more courses.

Free Writing Courses Worth Investigating

What to Expect from a Free Online Course

How to Get the Most from a Free Online Course

How to Find More Free Online Courses

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Everyone needs regular breaks. Vacations are important for our productivity. Taking frequent breaks keeps the mind “sharp” and protects us from the dreaded burnout. Health considerations also require us to make room for more physical activity and adequate rest.

But, freelancers typically use one of these excuses–or both–to work without interruptions, until either illness or a nervous breakdown forces us to stop:

“I’m too busy”

“I can’t afford it”

Even if your project schedule and personal life are both full, and even if your income is barely enough to cover your basic necessities, you can and should take a vacation.

What’s a Vacation Anyway?

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines “vacation” as:

• a respite or a time of respite from something
• a scheduled period during which activity (as of a court or school) is suspended
• a period spent away from home or business in travel or recreation

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