We publish practical articles for U.S.-based freelancers, independent consultants, small web agencies and the business owners who hire them. If you’ve done the work and can explain it clearly, we’d like to hear your idea.
Who We’re Looking For
You don’t need a publishing background. You do need firsthand experience and specific examples that help readers understand what to do. Show what you learned from doing the work, including the decisions, constraints or mistakes another reader can learn from.
Write the article yourself. We don’t accept AI-generated drafts, passages or rewrites, even if you edit them afterward. Pitch your own article and work with us directly; we don’t accept articles submitted on someone else’s behalf. We don’t publish promotional articles, paid placements or link insertions, and we don’t sell links.
Topics We Publish
- Finding Clients: referrals, networking, portfolios and marketing your services.
- Pricing and Getting Paid: estimates, project fees, retainers, invoices and late payments.
- Client Work: proposals, scope, communication, delivery and handoff.
- Running a Freelance Business: taxes, legal setup, insurance, services and business decisions.
- Tools and Workflows: software, automation and repeatable ways to do the work.
- Hiring a Freelancer: choosing someone, writing a brief and managing the project.
For example:
- How you changed a retainer after repeated scope problems.
- A client workflow you set up, including setup time and ongoing costs.
- What a business owner should prepare before hiring a freelance designer.
To see the level of detail we publish, read SEO Retainers: Building a Consulting Practice Around a Few Clients or Claude Code for Web Freelancers.
Payment and Author Credit
Articles are unpaid. Every article runs under your name, with a short bio that has one link to your website and, if you have one, a link to your Freelance Finder listing. Contributing is optional and doesn’t affect listing approval or directory placement.
We’d like to work with contributors again. If your first article is a good fit, we may invite you to pitch another.
How It Works
Send an idea first, not a finished article.
- Send your pitch with the form below. We’ll email you a receipt.
- Get our decision within 7 days. If we decline, we’ll tell you why.
- If we accept, you’ll get a link to your draft in WordPress and a deadline. New writers also get an email to set a password.
- Write in your draft, add your bio and website under Profile, and click Submit for Review. If you need more time, reply to the acceptance email before the deadline.
- We edit the article. If it needs changes, we’ll send it back with Notes in the editor. We’ll email you when it’s published.
Articles are unpaid. An accepted pitch doesn’t guarantee publication.
Links in your article have to help the reader check a claim, understand an example or complete a task. Use link text that describes where the link goes, not a keyword phrase.
Read our Editorial Guidelines before pitching. They cover sourcing, AI, links, publication rights and updates.
Send Your Pitch
Pitches go to Garrett Nafzinger, who runs Freelance Finder. You don’t need an account or a directory listing to pitch. Use your business email and your personal LinkedIn profile; we use them to confirm who you are and don’t publish either. Please don’t send pitches through the contact form.
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