Freelancers Shun Social Media, Expect Good Year, And More Freelance Forecast Highlights

The third annual Freelance Forecast survey, an online survey of freelancers worldwide, is out.

Among the highlights: freelancers said their business in 2010 was better than in 2009, and more than half (57 percent) expected to have an even better 2011.

Freelancers said that referrals were their best source of new clients. Social media was sixth on the list, behind even freelancers’ own websites.

While the survey by its nature covered a self-selected group, you would expect freelancers active enough on the Internet to respond to an online survey would be more active in social media, not less.

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