Our monthly challenges are supposed to help you increase your freelancing profits immediately. This month’s challenge will not have a positive impact in your bottom line right away. However, it is very important.
By taking this month’s challenge, you will:
improve and protect your health
increase your energy
make you more productive
And it is utterly simple. [...]
Bookkeeping and accounting are essential parts of freelancing. Freelancers can choose from dozens of software and web-based services that make bookkeeping and accounting easy and accurate. The Unlimited Freelancer has a good list of what’s available.
In this post, I’m going to share my own journey in organizing and systematizing my bookkeeping and accounting.
A Brief History
When [...]
As your freelancing business grows, the inevitable happens: you outgrow clients.
If you’ve been following along with our Savvy Freelancing challenges, you may be going through this right now. Our January 2010 challenge was to increase your rates, so if you’ve increased your fees significantly, you may have outgrown a few clients recently.
It’s scary. You’re losing [...]
I’m a member of Lynn Terry’s Elite Forum at Self-Starters Weekly Tips, where we learn all about making a living on the Internet (so don’t be surprised if I up and quit this freelancing thing; that means I’m making oodles of money in my sleep through the power of the Internet).
Anyway, Lynn is an awesome [...]
With 2009 ending, I thought I’d take a few moments to review how freelancing has been these past 12 months. 2009 is when I completed a whole year of freelancing, so this review is particularly important.
A Rocky Beginning
The first couple of months of 2009 was quite rough for me. I didn’t have a steady income. [...]
Christmas is fast approaching. Our calendars are filled with Christmas school concerts, shopping and holiday parties. And in this season of joy and giving, our thoughts turn to… reviewing the year and planning for the new year. Am I nothing but a party pooper?
Photo by Robert S. Donovan
I can’t help it. In the United Nations, [...]
After 31 days of posting every day, I am all blogged out! No, not really. I’m just taking it easy. After all, I turn another year older this week. So today, we have a guest blogger, Lynette Chandler. Lynette is one of my mentors from Mom Masterminds. She’s a savvy service provider and online marketer [...]
This is Day 30 of 31 Days to Start a Freelancing Business (or Make Yours a Better One). If you want to catch up, click here to read Day 1.
There’s a saying I’ve heard from business planners: “If you can’t measure it, then you can’t achieve it.”
Or, at the very least, you’ll have a hard [...]
This is Day 24 of 31 Days to Start a Freelancing Business (or Make Yours a Better One). If you want to catch up, click here to read Day 1.
In an earlier post, we’ve discussed the importance of client testimonials to reduce your prospective clients’ risks in hiring you. Today, you’re going to gather even [...]
This is Day 19 of 31 Days to Start a Freelancing Business (or Make Yours a Better One). If you want to catch up, click here to read Day 1.
Did you finish your client communication templates yesterday? If not, you’ll have time to continue making them today. As soon as you complete today’s task, which [...]
