Getting Started - The GigLoft Experience

How to get your first freelance client (or job!) without any experience

If you think you need experience to get hired for something, think again. As a newly reincarnated freelancer (less than two weeks of prospecting and practically zero experience), I earned Crash.co as my first growth marketing freelance client. You can too, with the same process.

Getting Started

5 Tips To Stay Compliant as a Freelancer

Freelancing has its perks, but with great power comes great responsibility. This post outlines best practices for freelancers to stay compliant with the IRS and the law.

Learnings

A conversation with Samantha Novak, full-time freelance sales writer

Meet Samantha, self-described “indoor cat, story addict, and total geek,” and learn how she built a thriving freelance sales writing practice that makes her happy and pays her bills.

True Stories

Community feature: Jérémy Chevallier, GigLoft Cofounder & CMO

I was fired from most of the jobs I had from age 16 to 22. I always wanted something more for myself. Despite my talents and hunger, it took other people coming into my life to make full-time self-employment happen for me.

Getting Started

The Crooked Path that Led Me to Freelance

From the beginning, I had a different approach. I used my college experience to expand far and wide, and achieve the things I wanted (notably traveling). I worked as often as possible to get back on the next plane. I did alright—but I wasn’t connecting, and my passion wasn’t being fulfilled.

Getting Started

How to Know if You’re Ready to Leap into Freelancing

Deciding to venture down this path can be a huge leap of faith. We crave the freedom and lifestyle and sense of service that comes with a career in freelance, but perhaps we aren't quite sure we have the right skills, enough determination, even the guts to do it. At least that's exactly how I felt.

Getting Started

85% of people hate their job. Can a new school teach them to love it?

The familiar narrative of school, college, debt, job-seeking, and missing fulfillment doesn’t have to be the norm. With a school that teaches us freelancing in realtime, we can choose to think, learn, and create our ideal work situation. That’s GigLoft. 🚀

Learnings

How to Pick a Remote Company to Work For

When looking at remote companies to work for, you should consider a few qualifying aspects before you plunge head first into one of them.

Learnings

Success isn’t monetary, it’s a feeling.

So many people believe that success is a certain paycheck $$$ amount, or net worth, or status in life. In many ways, we’re led to believe success is the outcome of hard work, luck, etc. But, in reality, success isn’t an outcome—it’s a feeling. 🤩