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Have you ever dreamed of quitting your job for the carefree life of a freelancer? Sleeping in, working from the beach, only taking on choice projects, and rolling in giant Scrooge McDuck piles of money? We’ll break down the myth and discuss the pros and cons of working as a freelancer in today’s marketplace. We’ll cover how to find and woo clients, the basics of running your own business, passive income, and opportunities specific to the WordPress ecosystem. We’ll make sure to break down some of the most common mistakes that freelancers are making.<\/p>\n

You’re going to get to see both sides of freelancer life. Stephen Haislip is currently freelancing under the moniker Company of H working with small businesses around the twin cities. Reid Peifer is an ex-freelancer who now runs teams of independent contractors on large scale WordPress projects with Modern Tribe. We’ll be leaving lots of time to answer your specific questions, so if you’re a seasoned freelancer or someone just dreaming of breaking off on your own there will be something for you.<\/p>\n

Info: http:\/\/freelance.tri.be\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever dreamed of quitting your job for the carefree life of a freelancer? Sleeping in, working from the beach, only taking on choice projects, and rolling in giant Scrooge McDuck piles of money? We’ll break down the myth and discuss the pros and cons of working as a freelancer in today’s marketplace. We’ll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307839,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_wcpt_session_time":21600,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[284,202],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[135633],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-948","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-school-of-business"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pheWzK-fi","session_date_time":{"date":"January 1, 1970","time":"12:00 am"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"284","slug":"stephen-haislip","name":"Stephen Haislip","link":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2013\/speaker\/stephen-haislip\/"},{"id":"202","slug":"reid-peifer","name":"Reid Peifer","link":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2013\/speaker\/reid-peifer\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307839"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1303,"href":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/948\/revisions\/1303"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/284"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}