finances

You Are the CFO of Your Business

As a freelancer, just about everything falls in your lap. That’s doubly true of your finances. After all, you can probably get away with some older software and even if you don’t spend hours on marketing you can probably make a little money at some content site — but if you don’t make sure that [...]

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Security: The Other Reason to Run A Business

Occasionally, I feel like a broken record, encouraging writers and other freelancers to concentrate on building a business. I encourage all of you to build income beyond just straight writing, and not just because you can significantly increase your income that way. It’s also a matter of security. There are times when freelance work just [...]

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The saving game

For freelancers, who may not have stable income from month to month, saving money can seem hard. We’re told that we need to be saving for retirement, a house, college for our kids and a whole host of other things. But it can be hard, especially since we can’t set up automatic payments to a [...]

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