Along with redundancy, becoming a parent is one of those life changes that often makes people consider freelancing. Freelancing can offer a flexibility that employment of any kind finds hard to match.
Author: Kara Copple
Kara Copple
An experienced business and finance writer, sometimes moonlighting as a fiction writer and blogger.
Freelancing can seem the perfect option when you become a parent, providing a more flexible way to work and manage your childcare commitments. But the two roles aren’t always easy to juggle.
You may have heard a lot about claiming expenses and have a few questions.
Value Added Tax is a sales tax added to the price of certain types of goods and services in the UK. Not all good or services have VAT added onto them or are subject to lower rates, for example children’s clothes.
The New Year is a traditional time for taking stock of the last year and of our lives in general, and to make some resolutions to improve it.
If you’re a creative freelancer of any kind, you’ll need not just testimonials but samples of your work that you can show off to prospective clients.
One of the main reasons people go freelance also comes with a price. The price of flexibility is the lack of stability when it comes to earning an income.
Feeling shy about using email marketing? Not sure why and how you should use it? Then read on – because email marketing can be a highly effective tool with some very specific purposes.
Christmas is a great time of year but for many freelancers, there’s a dilemma. Do you take time off or not? If you work for yourself, you earn as much as you work.
It’s important to keep in regular contact with your clients so they don’t panic-ring you on a Saturday morning wondering whether you’ve taken their money and run.