#freelancing (68 links)
- Freelance Friendly Network freelancefriendly.network
A directory of communities for freelancers and small businesses.
- Improving the worst chair in the office | Serviced Office Company servicedofficecompany.co.uk
- Cushion cushionapp.com
- The UK is becoming the self-employment capital of Europe leftfootforward.org
- Three problems I never expected as a freelancing mum freelanceadvisor.co.uk
- How This Freelancer Hacked His Hourly Rate fastcolabs.com
- Ask HN: What Freelancer site do you recommend? | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- YunoJuno yunojuno.com
- Let's meet and work – places to freelance around London letsmeetandwork.com
- Salary Benchmarking – February 2011 | Cogs Agency cogsagency.com
Salary Benchmarking for London 2011.
- Hacker News | Ask HN: Recommend a freelance job board news.ycombinator.com
- The most effective debt collecting email I ever wrote | For A Beautiful Web forabeautifulweb.com
I like this. "A quick note to say that I am really disappointed that you have still not paid me the [..] that I'm owed for the work I did for you. In the grand scheme of things, it's not a lot of money, but actually I think that this is more a matter of respect."
"That is the new way to build companies, College degrees don’t matter much IMHO anymore, for developers anyway. It’s more how you interact with the open source community and what you release yourself. Your github account has become your new resume and what you say on Twitter and in various IRC channels are more likely to get you the best jobs then any recruiters ever will." Although only if you're working for people who've actually heard of github i.e. not adland.
- The scariest pricing idea ever. That works. | The Freelancery thefreelancery.com
"Here’s a pricing technique that sounds, at first, like the dumbest newbie move of all time. Call it ‘fill-in-the-blank’ invoicing. Or ‘pay what you want’ pricing. The notion is, you do the work first, then let the client decide how much to pay for it." Heavy caveats.
- London Music Meet or Freelance Club londonmusicmeet.tumblr.com
A weekly get together between those working in music. Intended to provide a working environment whilst also sharing questions, knowledge and gossip about music and the industry. Every Thursday at Leon in Spitalfield Market. 2pm onwards. Wi-fi available
- Scamp: Tuesday Tip No.59 - How To Freelance scampblog.blogspot.com
Thanks to the wonderful credit crunch, many of you are about to become freelancers (ie fired). I have freelanced before (and am likely to be doing so again) so allow me to enlighten you as to what to expect.
- londonsocialmediacafe wiki / Free and Open Spaces in London londonsocialmediacafe.pbwiki.com
This is just a list of free and open spaces in London, places where smallish groups might congregate to do something, like talk, understand things better, make plans, organise other things.
- Coworking wiki / CoworkingLondon wiki.coworking.info
- Start Your Own Business : Journal : Mark Boulton markboulton.co.uk
A small article on making the leap to working for yourself
- FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog » How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer freelanceswitch.com
212 Pages of Expert Freelancing Advice
- How To Raise Your Rates Without Losing Clients - FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog freelanceswitch.com
If the fear of losing clients is holding you back from raising your rates, here are some pointers to help you broach the thorny subject of asking for more…
- FreeAgent Central - Money Management for UK Freelancers, Contractors and Consultants freeagentcentral.co.uk
A streamlined Money Management application for UK Freelancers, Contractors and Consultants who want to escape spreadsheet hell.
- The Invoice Machine | Create Invoices Easily And Free invoicemachine.com
Create free and beautiful PDF invoices in a snap.
- 43 Folders Jobs jobs.43folders.com
Mostly obvious but always good to be reminded.
- 25 Reasons You Didn’t Get The Gig : Freelance Folder freelancefolder.com
Some personal observations, reasons I probably would click away, not hire someone, not call back.
- Web Worker 101: Estimating Basics « Web Worker Daily webworkerdaily.com
Whatever your skills as software developer or web designer (or whatever your web work career entails), you need to also understand the basics of estimating.
easyOffice, owned and operated by the easyGroup, will open in High Street Kensington in London on 28 November 2007, and is already taking bookings.
- » 10 Essential Marketing Skills for Freelancers freelanceswitch.com
- Web Professionals portfolio and profile - Professional On The Web professionalontheweb.com
A portfolio directory for web agencies and freelancers
- Xchangeteam - Freelancer of the Year xchangeteam.com
Designed to showcase freelance talent and reward those consultants who have demonstrated that they have added real value to a client’s business.
- Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Refactoring Your Career « webworkerdaily.com
Here’s a catalog of career refactorings you can apply to help move yourself towards your own vision of what you want to be doing next.
- Brown's PBR taxes IT contractors :: Contractor UK contractoruk.com
From April 2007, draft legislation will strip away the “unfair competitive [tax] advantage” for hundreds of thousands of contractors who today use managed service or composite companies. Unlike limited company owners, these workers are “not in busin
Useful tips from PG.
- The best way to professionally raise my rates? | Ask MetaFilter ask.metafilter.com
Independent contractor filter: what is the best way to simultaneously raise my rates and not lose the business?
- Late Payment Calculator - Great to get payments - MoneySavingExpert.com Forums forums.moneysavingexpert.com
Many self-employed/freelancers/small businesses face the same problem. You've done the work - yet your corporate clients haven't paid on time. Yet you have a legal right to charge interest if companies don't pay you.