This post originally started out as a comment that I was going to leave on this article over at FreelaceSwitch, but after a couple of paragraphs I decided that it was something that I cared enough about to turn into a full article. It’s a really great post about new year’s advice for freelancers, but [...]
About two months ago I was in a dark place: I was working extremely hard, but I didn’t seem to be making any money, and on top of all that I got landed with the worst client I’ve ever had in my life – who ended up costing me about £8,000. My finances were in [...]
Just in the last week I’ve come out the other side of a 2 month long process; opening a business bank account. You would think that in this day and age it’d be pretty simple – you’d be wrong. Opening my business bank account for trading has been a rather laborious task and is certainly [...]
Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Mr Alan Williams, one of the Directors and Founders of Nixon Willams accountants who I’ve mentioned several times previously. I’ll let you read through interview for yourself, but I believe Alan has provided some really great insights and offered some extremely helpful advice – so I hope [...]
I’ve been looking for a good accountant to help me out ever since I decided to take the plunge and go freelance. It hasn’t been easy I can tell you that much right now! The main reason was that I didn’t want just ‘any accountant’ to take of arguably the most important part of my [...]
In the last couple of days I wrote about how I went to a bank to apply for a small business loan, and got shot down because of a ‘mark’ on my credit history, not knowing what this was I decided to research this in more detail and find out exactly what was going on. [...]
So as I mentioned, today I had a meeting with my bank business account manager. Foolishly, I polished my business plan and put on a suit, thinking that good impressions and planning still matter these days. (They don’t)
Catch22, Fun For All The Family
Well she didn’t want to see my business plan, and she wasn’t much [...]
For years I’ve been trying to find my niche, trying to find my goal in life, the something that I was really good at. And a couple of years ago I finally found it in the form of web design. It started out as a hobby, making small websites as ‘fansites’ for my favourite bands, [...]
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