I’m sure you have heard the expression “the cobbler’s children have no shoes.” It is used frequently to describe professionals who are so busy helping their clients that they don’t have enough time to leverage their skills to grow their own business. It happens a lot, and freelance writers are not immune to this phenomenon.
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Four Clients Every Freelance Writer Needs
Posted by: Emily Suess, August 26, 2010
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Building a Freelance Financial System
Not a lot of people graduate college and set out to start a freelance business immediately. More often, freelancers get a start because we're looking for something to tide us over between jobs, someone offers us some after-hours work or we flat out find ourselves in a position where we need to make money [...]
morePosted by: Thursday Bram, August 25, 2010
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6 Steps to Getting Paid by A Deadbeat Client
Some of you may remember a previous post I wrote about what happens when clients don’t pay you. After consulting the Freelancers Union and receiving a form letter for demanding payment and threatening an unpaid wages claim, I am happy to report I’ve been paid in full. Here’s how I did it.
morePosted by: Sarah Snyder, August 19, 2010
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5 Steps to Survive a Financial Setback
A financial setback can happen to anyone, and it's never a good feeling. Even if you are on top of your finances, it only takes a few things to happen at the same time and your financial situation can get thrown completely off track.
Let's look at a real-life situation. Say you're a freelancer who has [...]
Posted by: Alyssa Gregory, August 15, 2010
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Setting a Freelance Rate: The Questions You Have to Ask
Establishing your rate as a freelance writer can be a tough task. As much as it would be nice to be able to look up online about how much a freelancer with so many years of experience should be making per hour, there's just no listing like that. Pricing for a freelancer can be incredibly [...]
morePosted by: Thursday Bram, August 4, 2010
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Still No Start-Up Credit for Small Businesses
Does the success of your small business hinge on securing ample credit? As big business expects to report booming second quarter earnings, the red-headed stepchild of commerce is scrambling just to survive, and banks aren’t making it easier. Neither is the Senate’s failure to enact the Obama administration’s bill to incentivize small business lending.
Banks contend [...]
Posted by: Sarah Snyder, August 2, 2010
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How Much is Too Much for a Freelancer to Spend?
I went to a networking event the other night where another freelancer handed me her business card. She'd obviously spent no money on this card: it even had the fuzzy edges that showed that she'd used perforated paper to print it. She ran out of cards after meeting about eight people out of the nearly [...]
morePosted by: Thursday Bram, July 14, 2010
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Small Business Job Titles – Who Do You Think You Are?
For every trade out there, there are a variety of names you may be called. Maybe you use a different name for your friends and another for more professional climates. Are you a CEO? An owner? A freelancer? What do you use in your elevator speech? Or a cocktail party? While some take this professional [...]
morePosted by: Sarah Snyder, July 5, 2010
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What’s my rate again?
Surely you have wondered about how your hourly pay compares to the person in the cubicle to your right.
How does the value of an hour of your lawyer’s time compare to your own? However, have you wondered about how much Apple earns every hour? In the same 60 minutes spent working, how does your [...]
Posted by: AppSumo, June 17, 2010
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8 Tips to Get Clients to Pay Faster
As a freelancer, a late payment can throw a major wrench in the gears: while a client may feel that an email saying a payment will be late is perfectly acceptable, my landlord doesn't take IOUs. In an ideal world, of course, clients would pay their invoices upon receipt, but the fact [...]
morePosted by: Thursday Bram, June 14, 2010
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