How to level-up your freelancing career in 2025

From how to find more clients to how to prevent AI from taking your gigs, here are tips from a longtime freelancer on improving your freelance business.

Longevity with freelancing is entirely possible if you’re intentional, adaptable, and development-oriented. Freelancers should think of themselves as a business of one as opposed to an outsourced employee for other companies. And it’s import to always be improving that business. As E-Myth Revisited author Michael Gerber once wrote, “Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working in their business rather than on their business.”