Be careful about who you work for Check out all new clients before you start working for them – avoid the pitfalls of working but not getting paid. What could be better than getting a new client, you think. Maybe someone rang out of the blue, or emailed, or even...
What's stopping you? I’m a great believer in self-help books as a way to help motivate me to achieve my goals and learn from the highs and lows of others. ‘Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff’ (Richard Carlson); ‘Wanting Everything’ (Dorothy Rowe); ‘The Road Less Travelled...
Goal setting The New Year is traditionally a time to make resolutions and set new life goals. Personally, I leave my ‘New Year’ review until spring as January and February are months where ‘holding on’ seems to be a major achievement. Whether it’s a post-Christmas...
Business Link the government's resource for business has launched new services and tools aimed at providing easy to use, tailored information to help businesses start-up, improve and grow their business. The sites will host a variety of interactive tools to help...
It may not be the end of the tax year quite yet but many freelances have just submitted their tax returns for HMRC to calculate tax owed before the 31 October cut off date. With this in mind, FEU Training will be rolling out two, one-day workshops Money Matters in...
There's plenty of help online to help freelance creatives generate business. For those of you who may be interested, there is a free live webinar taking place in the USA on November 8 at 18.00 (GMT). The webinar will last 60 minutes. HubSpot's Kipp Bodnar will unveil...
In the summer I was invited by course leader and documentary photographer Jose Navarro from the Open College of the Arts (OCA) to be interviewed for its blog. Naturally, I said yes as I'm a great supporter of blogs and I like talking about and discussing photography...
One of the biggest concerns for freelances is money and cash flow and when times are tight we have to make the most of the resources with have at our disposal. The online world is great for this, there are heaps of sites and tools that have been developed to make...
