Sometimes we learn more from our failures than our successes. In this episode of the Working Without Pants Podcast, Marcus Blankenship takes us through his experience building up a successful agency and then experiencing it fail and fall apart.

Building a creative agency is hard. Building a creative agency when you don't live in the same city as your partners can be even harder. Chris and Bryant at Authentic Form & Function have managed to pull this off.

As freelance professionals, we are consistently having to create proposals for new projects all of the time. Often this means hassling with Microsoft Word, inDesign or some other design software to make our proposals decent.

Lets be honest, working from home isn't always the easiest.

Photo used under creative commons courtesy of Matt Crawford The other day I was sitting in my home office heads down getting things done.

When I was in college one of my good friends always had the coolest internships and the best jobs. While most students were slaving away for free, he was getting paid for his internships, and paid well.

One of the hardest things about being a digital nomad is dealing with time zone changes as you travel around the world. If you are like most digital nomads, your primary client base is still based in your country of origin. For me personally, my ...

My desk in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Working remotely is the new American dream.

As freelancers, we are approached with opportunities for side projects all the time. Often, these side projects have very little or zero budget, yet they still pique our interest.

A few years ago I got hooked by the startup bug. Like many young techies and entrepreneurs, I was fascinated by the idea of building a scalable startup and someday walking away with millions.