Alright, so this isn’t the most thrilling post-title ever. Hell, if you clicked through from Twitter then you must be either very loyal, or very bored. Accounting isn’t fun and it isn’t particularly interesting but it’s important. For legal reasons I should mention that I’m not an accountant; anything written here is based solely on [...]
Grab a coffee, get comfortable and make sure you read this post in full. It’s dawned on me in the last couple of days that I’ve screwed up my pricing big time. I’ve made a really obvious mistake that’s meant I’ve been losing 80% of all my money. The Phases of Pricing There are some [...]
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. [...]
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