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The book covers strategy, earnings targets, marketing and closing deals, alongside client and project management. It also addresses ways of working and the psychological separation required to make better decisions, helping readers take action toward sustainable wealth and an improved freelance lifestyle.","THE FREELANCER’S  \nBUSINESS BRAIN Work smart · Win clients · Make money  \nWritten by Tom Albrighton ([tomalbrighton.com](tomalbrighton.com)) Foreword by Sophie Cross ([freelancermagazine.co.uk](freelancermagazine.co.uk)) Cover illustration by Ollie Hoff ([olliehoff.co.uk](olliehoff.co.uk)) Internal illustrations by Good Studio  \n[O](OceanofPDF.com)[ceanof](OceanofPDF.com)[PDF.](OceanofPDF.com)[com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n100% human-written. No AI technologies have been used in the research, drafting or editing of this  \nbook.  \nText, design and diagrams © ABC Business Communications Ltd 2024. 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Enquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publisher.  \nABC Business Communications Ltd accepts no responsibility or liability for any ʰnancial, marketing or business decision a reader may make, or refrain from making, based on the content of this book.  \nAll URLs were correct at the time of publication, but online content may have been moved, changed or deleted since then. ǃe author and publisher accept no responsibility for the content of third-party  \nwebsites.  \nABC Business Communications Ltd 100, George Borrow Road Norwich NR4 7HU United Kingdom  \nISBN 978-1-7399154-6-9 (paperback)  \nISBN 978-1-7399154-7-6 (hardback)  \nISBN 978-1-7399154-5-2 (eBook)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nForeword  \n1 Introduction  \n2 Your strategy  \n3 Pricing  \n4 Setting an earnings target  \n5 Managing money  \n6 Marketing yourself  \n7 Closing deals  \n8 Managing projects  \n9 Understanding clients  \n10 Increasing your prices  \n11 Ways of working  \n12 Getting your head right Afterword  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFOREWORD  \n[O](OceanofPDF.com)[c](OceanofPDF.com)[e](OceanofPDF.com)[a](OceanofPDF.com)[no](OceanofPDF.com)[f](OceanofPDF.com)[PDF](OceanofPDF.com)[.c](OceanofPDF.com)[o](OceanofPDF.com)[m](OceanofPDF.com)  \nBy Sophie Cross  \nWhen Tom asked me if I’d consider writing the foreword for ƾe Freelancer’s Business Brain, not only was I extremely ʱattered, but in hearing the title and knowing Tom as an accomplished freelance business owner, I could not wait to get my hands on the book to read it.  \nIf you’re a freelancer, seeing yourself as a business is the most powerful thing you can learn to do — for yourself, your family, your clients and the wider industry. 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