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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 [...]

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Posted 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.

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Posted 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 [...]

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Posted by: Alyssa Gregory, August 15, 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 [...]

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Posted 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 [...]

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Posted by: Sarah Snyder, July 5, 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 [...]

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Posted by: Thursday Bram, June 14, 2010

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You Know You’re A Freelancer If…

We’re that distinctive breed of worker, hardly seen but easily identified by our ever-presence in booths at restaurants, pubs, coffee shops, and delicatessens. We are the portable freelancer, the free agent, the microbusiness, the stringer, the independent contractor, the small business owner … whatever you call yourself. Like any stereotype, we have their own.
Maybe this [...]

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Posted by: Sarah Snyder, May 17, 2010

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Invoices: Not Just for Microsoft Word Anymore

Did you know that if you have clients who pay through PayPal you can invoice them through the website? The quick, simple and secure method doesn’t require the client to have to be a member, making PayPal accounting perfection. Clients may use a credit card of PayPal account to pay your invoice, and it could [...]

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Posted by: Sarah Snyder, May 6, 2010

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The Patchwork of Balance

Do you ever get that feeling you’re on the computer too much and not living enough? I do, so I bought a sewing machine yesterday and took a drive out to see the wildflowers today. Problem solved? Not so much, because I know it’s going to take some work to be more involved in doing [...]

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Posted by: Sarah Snyder, May 4, 2010

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How ‘Pay It Forward’ Relates to Freelancing

I had somebody tell me that, with all the advice I give my self employed friends, I should start charging for consulting. No way, and here’s why: My career has been the result of a collection of people who spend their extra time helping, advising and encouraging me, and they didn’t get a dime for [...]

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Posted by: Sarah Snyder, April 27, 2010

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