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Freelancing in 2012? Here’s How to Get Started.
The New Year is approaching, and it’s a perfect time to make a change. If the change you have in mind is from “corporate life” to “freelance life,” then you’ve stumbled on the right post to get you...
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Freelancers: Just Where Did the Year Go? And What Are You Planning for 2012?
If you are like me, a solopreneuer, you get to the end of the year and wonder where where it all went. Hopefully you’ve been busy doing great work and enjoying making and keeping in touch with new...
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Why I Went Out on My Own
There seems to be a series of confessionals going on — one from an ex-employee of Goldman Sachs and another from Google and likely more to come — so I thought it might be the right time for me to join...
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Flextime: How to Bend (Not Break!) in Today’s Turbulent Workplace
The digital business consultant Beth Temple will be bringing her newest class, Freelance Success: Independence, Not Insecurity, to the Hired Guns Academy on Wednesday, May 16. This three-hour course is...
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Show Me the Money: How to Price Your Work (and Get Paid for It)
Freelancers and freelancers-in-training: for more of Beth Temple’s hard-won, practical tips on getting paid what you deserve, check out her May 16th Hired Guns Academy class on Freelance Success:...
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Are Low Wages and Temp Jobs the Future of Work? Not Quite.
Back in the day, there was a cartoon character whose catch phrase was ‘now waaaaayyyy a minute’ when things didn’t sound quite right. That is instinctively what I thought as soon as I read a recent...
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Choose Wisely: Freelancing, Dating, and How Not to Make Yourself Miserable
Finding the right date for Valentine’s Day is tough. It takes a lot of dating to find that perfect someone to settle in with, someone worthy of a ‘Be Mine’ candied heart. Rush in and it can easily...
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Home Alone? For Freelancers, Where You Work Matters
Long before Marissa Mayer upset the Yahoo cart (and the well-articulated response to that overturned cart in The New York Times), I’ve had to weigh out the pros and cons of what it means to have a work...
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To Bee or Not to Bee: The Future of Being Your Own Boss
The future looks bright for us freelancers and solopreneurs. The day will come — and come soon — when we will be recognized more for our ability to help build strong businesses than our gypsy...
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September is the New January: 4 Tips to Make the Most of Your Autumn
For me, the first day back after Labor Day always feels more like the start of a new year than January 1. With everyone (and it does seem like quite literally everyone) back from summer vacation and Q4...
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How Consultants Can Make Sure They Get Paid
The biggest hazard in the life of an independent consultant or freelancer is the likelihood that at some point you’ll have a client who won’t or doesn’t pay you. In my 16 years of independence, I have...
View ArticleWhat I’ve Learned in the 17 years of Being my Own Boss
With escalating headlines on the gig economy, Uber’s definition of employment being parsed, politicians focusing on the economics of on-demand employment, and the entrepreneurial profiling of the...
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