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Tim White

Tim White is a classically trained writer and editor, literary analyst, and writing teacher. He is also the award-winning author of The Nightmare Machine, the first book of the Soulaerium horror-thriller trilogy. He lives in Arizona, where he and his wife own an escape room venue. Learn more at TimWhiteWriting.com.

Business & Finance

13 Strategies for Becoming a Successful Freelancer: Strategy Thirteen and Conclusion

Tim White

There’s so much more to say about how to launch your freelancing career, but these thirteen strategies should be enough to get you moving in the right direction.

4 min Jun 4, 2022

Business & Finance

13 Strategies for Becoming a Successful Freelancer: Strategies Eleven and Twelve

Tim White

Whether or not social media will help you depends heavily on your industry. In order to decide, you first need to understand its essence.

4 min May 6, 2022

Business & Finance

13 Strategies for Becoming a Successful Freelancer: Strategies Nine and Ten

Tim White

There are many rules and principles that use numbers and ratios. By “the 70/30” principle, I mean that you don’t need to have 100 percent mastery in every aspect of a project to do it well. If a client says, “Can you do X?,” you can readily say yes if you know how to do at least 70 percent of what they’re asking for.

3 min Mar 21, 2022

Business & Finance

13 Strategies for Becoming a Successful Freelancer: Strategies Seven and Eight

Tim White

Many career coaches and professionals have a lot of different things to say about how you should build and deliver your elevator pitch, which is basically a brief sales pitch that you can deliver during an elevator ride with a potential client.

2 min Feb 24, 2022

Business & Finance

13 Strategies for Becoming a Successful Freelancer: Strategies Five and Six

Tim White

If you’re a new businessman or just branching out into a new field, what is the easiest way to make your products or services appealing to customers?

4 min Jan 31, 2022

Business & Finance

13 Strategies for Becoming a Successful Freelancer: Strategies Three and Four

Tim White

To be truly competitive as a freelancer, you need to be in the top 10 percent of your field at minimum. Over time, strive to be in the top 1 percent.

4 min Jan 7, 2022

Business & Finance

13 Strategies for Becoming a Successful Freelancer: Strategies One and Two

Tim White

Most industries in which freelancers are common are downright saturated with them, and most freelancers are somewhere between unqualified and average. In my experience, the best way for freelancers to become successful is to stand way, way out from the pack.

6 min Dec 13, 2021

Business & Finance

Freelancing Your Way to Felicity and Financial Freedom: Part 1

Tim White

Freelancing is not for everyone. It’s really difficult to both build a career that you’re passionate about and to make good money doing it, but if you’re willing to put in the work and refine your strategies over time, the results can be enormously rewarding.

6 min Nov 18, 2021

Lifestyle

How Escape Rooms Can Make You a Better Thinker

Tim White

Escape rooms are growing rapidly in popularity around the world, but most people still don’t know what they are. Put simply, an escape room is a room or building in...

2 min Aug 16, 2020

Lifestyle

Secrets of Effective Time Management: Rolling with the Punches

Tim White

Author’s note: The “five Ds” is an idea that’s been around for some time; here’s my take on it. I run two businesses, one of which sometimes has employees I...

5 min Jun 16, 2020

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