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Here is a list of tips to make you better at the art of networking as a freelancer.

Last month, I was invited by friends to an outdoor potluck. It was the first "nice weather Saturday" of the year, thus a meal outside was the best plan possible in a city where the sun is hard to come by.

by Mariana Cadenas

Philip Verhaeghe was invited to give a keynote speech at the Freelance Business Day 2019 to uncover the topic of thought leadership. Every freelancer is eager to know how to position themselves as a thought leader and an expert in their own professional field, thus we are publishing his speech below. by Philip Verhaeghe, Freelance editor and advisor, Belgium

"Many freelancers dream to be broadly recognised as an authority and thought leader in their particular field of work."

Platforms that can help create opportunities for you and add additional projects to your portfolio.

Freelance Business Community has hosted a masterclass about the freelance contract essentials with Ian de Swart, co-founder of Charipickers. Below are some short but helpful guides for freelancers when dealing with agreements.

If there's anything we have learned during the corona crisis, it is that working online is not as impossible as it might have seemed before! Working online gave us lots of freedom, but at the same time accelerated the number of tasks we needed to do, sometimes at a very high speed and in a short time frame. We asked Astrid Van den Maagdenberg, who is a virtual assistant herself, to tell us what a virtual assistant does and how virtual assistants can help independent professionals and freelancers to free up extra time for business.

I can feel your eyes rolling back...Vacation?!!

'Workation' is probably a better word to describe the rest time of an independent professional this year.

In June 2020, Malt and BCG jointly conducted a survey of more than 2,324 respondents in three countries (France, Germany, Spain) to better understand freelancing dynamics in Europe.

Below we bring the main take-aways for our readers and you can download the full report here.