As a freelancer, you’ll occasionally have a dry spell without much client work. This doesn’t happen to me often these days – for a good 90% of 2023, I had all the work as I could handle! – but inevitably there’ll be times when a client goes on holiday, or another client isn’t ready to assign more
pieces.
Instead of feeling frustrated (or even panicked) by the lack of client work, look for ways to use this extra time productively. There are plenty of things you can do to either bring in new work or get ahead with other tasks. Here are my main go-to tasks for times when I’ve got spare freelancing time and no client work to fill it.
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