Big freelance projects: 10 ways to tackle them successfully

There’s nothing to beat the feeling when you’ve just landed yourself a big, juicy – and lucrative – project. It means you can pay off your overdraft, or go on holiday, or meet your tax bill.

Then, after you’ve patted yourself on the back, the reality sinks in. How are you going to DO ALL THIS WORK? You feel like a small insect about to scale a skyscraper.

Here’s my advice:

• Break the project down into a number of manageable chuncks so that you’ve now got several mini projects rather than one colossal one.

• Create a timetable on a spreadsheet and set yourself a deadline to complete each separate mini project.

• For each mini project, list out all the key tasks involved and assign a date by each one so you’re clear on exactly what you have to do when.
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