08Jan
Hoo boy, a new post! A monumentous occasion.
Anyways, here’s the plan. I’ve just finished reading through Collis and Cyan Ta’eed’s epic freelancing book, How To Be A Rockstar Freelancer. If you’ve been following the freelance communities online, it’s likely you’ve heard of this book. I’d been seeing mentions of it a lot, especially since one of my daily stops online is FreelanceSwitch and the forums thereof.
So, one day I figured I’d drop the $29 US and give the PDF eBook version a go (you can also purchase a paperback copy for $35 US if that’s more your style). After the PayPal transaction went through, a nice little note popped into my inbox with a link to the download location (worth noting: in case you accidentally lose or delete the PDF after you’ve downloaded it, they allow you to use the link 9 times, if memory serves). Off I went on a journey for freelancing knowledge!
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24Nov
Hey folks. It’s been a bit. I can’t believe I haven’t blogged in a month. It hasn’t seemed that long, though, because I’ve been keeping quite busy. I’ve started to make a little money from my freelancing business! Hurray! I’m still a long ways off from making it my main source of income, but it’s a start.
I’ve always hated those posts where people say, “Wow I’m sorry I haven’t updated, I will do better” and that’s it (and usually they don’t do better. In fact, I’ve been guilty of it myself in the past. For that reason, I am determined to make this post useful! I present to you:
The Freelance Journey Forum Round-up!
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20Oct
Photo Credit: Richard Annable
One of the most frustrating things about working in a creative industry for me, and I’m sure for almost everyone else as well, is dealing with clients and customers who have no concept of how valuable our services are. It’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately, and I’m going to put forward a couple of ways one might solve this ever-present problem.
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07Oct
Photo Credit: Steve Kaiser
“People often say death and taxes are the same, but this is wrong. Death is a taxable event, but taxes never die.”
–Anonymous (Source: Wikiquote)
Of all the things I’ve had to deal with while starting up my business, taxation has definitely been the most difficult to wrap my head around. Living in British Columbia, Canada, I not only have our federal GST (Goods & Services Tax) to worry about, but PST (Provincial Sales Tax) as well. What should and should not be taxed differs between industries, and between the different types of good and services in each of those industries. It’s not exactly self-explanatory.
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25Sep
Photo Credit: Dan McKay
In my recent travels around the internet looking for advice for my own freelance business, I’ve come across a couple of very interesting articles which laud a seemingly counter-intuitive practice for freelancers. What is that practice, you ask? Throwing per-hour billing, and per-hour rates, out the window.
If you’re newbie in the freelancing world, or if you’re a seasoned veteran when it comes to self-employment, it’s likely you’ve brought something with you from the days of 9-to-5 office work, and I’m not talking about emotional baggage. I’m talking about the idea that your work translates into your hourly wage (or yearly salary, which in my experience most people distill into an hourly figure anyway). Certainly it has been the case for me, and a number of others I know.
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Hoo boy, a new post! A monumentous occasion.
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