Freelance

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 [...]

Posted by: Thursday Bram, August 25, 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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My Accounting Hall of Shame

In the spirit of tax season, let’s talk a bit about accounting pitfalls. What are some mistakes you made starting out that make you cringe now? As a writer, I always pigeonholed myself as a person not into numbers, but the fact remains that no matter who you are, you better have a sound bookkeeping [...]

Posted by: Sarah Snyder, April 13, 2010

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Your Small Business New Year’s Resolution

Many of us are entering into our first “New Year” as small business owners, so it’s time to make some resolutions! I’m sure you have a few resolutions already, but if you haven’t even had time to dig out from under your mounds of work, here are some tips to get that resolution list started:

Cut [...]

Posted by: Jennifer Escalona, January 5, 2010

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Four real world things you should do to simplify your life

I am a small business owner, independent freelance worker and CPA. I will let you in on a dirty secret about CPA’s, we spend all day working on other people’s tax and accounting records and doing our own bookkeeping is usually the last thing we want to think about. My way of dealing [...]

Posted by: Wray Rives, October 15, 2009

Marketing on a Low/No Budget: Get Found!

To get a business going you have to have two things. One is an idea, service, or product. The other is the skill and ability to communicate with particular people about your idea. In the good ole’ days, the only way to communicate with potential customers was to spend money bombarding them [...]

Posted by: sonnyb, August 3, 2009

Cutting business expenses: Customer interview – Professional Lifestyle Photography

The poor state of the economy gets a lot of media coverage these days, but we were especially intrigued by an email we received from one of our customers, Terrell, a professional photographer from Las Vegas. He mentioned that using Bootstrap (Outright) had helped him see where he needed to cut costs. Because we [...]

Posted by: Kevin Reeth, November 24, 2008