How to Raise Your Freelance Rates With Existing Clients
Already know you’re undercharging? Here’s the decision framework, timing mechanics, and exact script structure to raise your rates without losing the clients you value.
How to Move From Commodity Gig Work to Higher-Value Clients
A practical six-step framework for intermediate freelancers ready to escape low-price marketplace competition and build better-paying, longer-term client relationships.
How to Turn a Niche Skill Into a Paid Tutoring or Coaching Side Hustle
Already have a specialized skill? This practical guide shows you how to package it into paid tutoring or coaching sessions — from self-assessment to pricing, policies and scaling.
Upwork CFO Takes Medical Leave as CEO Steps In to Cover Finance Role
What’s happened at Upwork Upwork, one of the world’s largest freelance marketplaces, confirmed in a regulatory filing that its Chief Financial Officer, Erica Gessert, began a temporary medical leave of absence effective 14 July 2026. CEO Hayden Brown has stepped in to assume the role of principal financial officer on an interim basis for the […]
10 Mistakes New Freelancers Make — and How to Avoid Every One of Them
From underpricing your work to skipping contracts, these ten avoidable business mistakes cost new US freelancers real money. Here’s the practical fix for each one.
Skilled Freelancing Surges to 38% of US Knowledge Workers as AI Rewards Judgment Over Routine
New data from Upwork’s 2026 Future Workforce Index shows skilled freelancing jumped 10 percentage points in a year — and the earnings gap between AI-augmented experts and routine AI users is widening fast.
From First Client to Small Agency: What Rued Riis’s Honest Growth Story Teaches US Freelancers
Animation freelancer Rued Riis documented his real journey from solo work to running an eight-person agency. Here’s what US freelancers can learn from every stage of that transition.
