Starting Out

10 quick lessons for freelancers: #3

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Freelance Advisor and Web Consultant Leif Kendall continues his mini-series of ten lessons learnt during his time freelancing.

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Lesson 3: Do admin

You need to spend time doing administrative tasks (filing, record-keeping, paper-work – call it what you will).
It’s a nuisance, but it has to happen.
Keep everything tidy, and file things systematically on your computer.
Book-keeping is boring but necessary.

<< Lesson 2: Make em pay!

By Leif Kendall, freelance copywriter and web marketing consultant

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Malin Kilander
Dec 11, 2008
at 4:55 pm

No pain, no gain!

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