Ian Ozsvald | Guides,Resources
Monetising your knowledge is a core skill for freelancers – making money whilst you sleep is a necessary step forwards as you build your freelancing career.
Professional Screencaster Ian Ozsvald shows us ways of making money by screencasting. This post follows the earlier tutorials on Communicating more effectively and raising your profile through screencasts.
Ian Ozsvald | Resources,Training
Building a visible profile is essential if you want to receive a steady stream of readers and referred clients. Demonstrating your knowledge with screencasts is easy and is a very effective way of showing visitors that you’re on top of your game.
Professional Screencaster Ian Ozsvald shows us how short online tutorial and demonstration videos are a powerful way to raise your profile. This post follows the earlier tutorial on (Communicating more effectively with screencasts)
Michael Rose | Resources,Training
Getting your message across to customers and clients is vital and, as a freelancer, communicating clearly and effectively with can make a big difference to the success or failure of a project or product.
Professional Screencaster Ian Ozsvald shows us how short online videos are a powerful way to get communicate clearly.
If you’re a razor-sharp freelancing PR professional then you may want to take advantage of a recent partnership between the Professional Contractors Group (the ‘Voice of Freelancing’) and the Public Relations Consultants Association.
In our continuing quest to offer a helping hand to freelancers and contractors, we’re offering you the chance to get a special discount on membership to the PCG (the Professional Contractors Group) thanks to an exclusive promotional code.
As a freelancer or contractor, it can often feel like you have to do everything alone in terms of running your company and finding new clients. If you are working full-time for a company, you have your colleagues and all the support departments and resources available to help you do your job. When you are working on your own, it seems like there is no one out there.
However, there are many resources for freelancers — some paid and some free, which can help you both to run your freelance business as well as with business development and finding new clients. Rahul Nag investigates some of the best freelance resources.
HMRC Start Up Diaries
The latest installment of HMRC’s [Start Up Diaries][] is now available to view online, offering freelancers, contractors and small business owners a unique insider’s view into setting up and running a new business.
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Darren Fell | Guides,Resources
A must read for Freelancers and Contractors. Rarely do you pick up a book that answers all the questions. Not only does the new Contractors’ Handbook answer them in detail, it goes into areas I hadn’t even thought about – despite creating and running several successful businesses.
Starting out in business can be scary. Not only are there new procedures and systems to get used to but also are rules and regulations that are now your responsibility to understand and observe.
This concise guide gives you an overview of what you need to do to protect you, your business, your employees, your intellectual property and your customers data.
Michael Rose | Accountancy & Tax,Resources
If you’ve read the tax overview and know what to expect this guide gives you a simple to understand guide to Self Assessment, National Insurance contributions, VAT, employing others (PAYE) as well as some of the help you can get in the form of Allowances, reliefs, incentives and Tax credits.
Essential reading if you’re starting out and struggling to understand tax and self-employment.
Michael Rose | Accountancy & Tax,Resources
To help launch our new Resources section we’ve teamed up with Business Link and the HMRC: Over the next few months we’ll be offering the latest advice, guidance and short videos from the people who know.
If you’ve recently gone self-employed or are thinking about working for yourself this first PDF guide will give you an overview of initial questions you might be asking yourself when planning on starting a business.
The number of freelancers is steadily increasing across the UK and I have no doubt that freelancing is going to continue growing at a strong rate. If you work as a freelancer or are considering going freelance then you need to know where freelancing is heading. Unless you live on another planet it is impossible [...]
Whatever you decide to call them, having someone to act as a commercial reality check in your business is invaluable. Finding someone with business experience who is prepared to meet and make you accountable could make the difference between meeting or missing your targets. Benefits So how can a commercial coach/Non-Exec type person help your [...]
In part one and part two we looked at the marketing process and what you are actually employed for, e.g. the way you think respectively. Today we look at how to identify the unique features of product, you. Understanding the product – You, Your Abilities, Competencies & Transferable Assets Many of us realise that every [...]
In Part One of this series, Bill Faust talks about how important it is to understand basic marketing principles in learning how to Pitch Yourself. The question he asks now is do we know why we are employed? Deciphering the needs of the buyer Most of us think it is because of our experience, this [...]
In this series, Bill Faust, author of Pitch Yourself, shares insights gained from over 30-years of industry experience. He discusses key factors for effective self-marketing, understanding what self-marketing means, reading your future employers’ desires and defining clearly what you, the product, have to offer.
