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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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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 [...]

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Posted by: Thursday Bram, August 4, 2010

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That Mystical Floating Money: When Clients are Slow to Pay

I met a self employed app designer the other day at the pub. He sounds like he’s got it made, on the cutting edge of technology and chock full of clients. But lo and behold, he’s got the same problem I have; clients not paying up or not doing so soon enough.
There are a few [...]

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Posted by: Sarah Snyder, April 19, 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 [...]

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Posted by: Sarah Snyder, April 13, 2010

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Why Freelancers Should Care About the Right Brain

“The keys to the kingdom are changing hands,” author Daniel Pink starts out in A Whole New Mind (2005). He continues that those who can make ideas mean something are at a higher premium than the traditional doctors, lawyers and MBAs that used to dominate the job market. Many of these positions – artists, storytellers, [...]

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Posted by: Sarah Snyder, April 12, 2010

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PayPal Invoicing – Send It, Get It, Put It In Your Pocket

Are you invoicing and giving out receipts on... [dramatic music here] ... paper? If you are looking for a simple way to change this, consider PayPal as a simple start-up tool not jingling with bells and whistles. Even if you're a pro, being overwhelmed with too many features or having to pay for an invoicing [...]

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Posted by: Sarah Snyder, April 9, 2010

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In Business, Size Doesn’t Matter Anymore

We’re portable, we can fit in airline seats, corners of pubs and hospital waiting rooms. We’re the very small business, known by our netbooks and our buzzing smart phones. You’ll never find us with paper, writing utensils or staplers; that’s so 2005. Even our products can be small, from resin jewelry to the smallest phones [...]

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Posted by: Sarah Snyder, April 8, 2010

Comments: 7

Forget Business Bank Accounts – It’s All About PayPal

When I first entered my small business, I imagined complex software programs and spreadsheets that would help me with business bookkeping. Little did I know that a top bookkeeping resource would be PayPal. Sure I had a couple of clients who paid through EFTs into my bank account, and another couple who would cut me [...]

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