Freelance Finance

Time is money. The minute you get a freelance assignment gig, calculate how much time the client is buying from you. Unless you are absolutely dying to do a particular project, a $500 project should buy fewer of your hours than a $1,000, $2,500 or $7,500 project. I have written $1,500 to $2,500 articles in […]

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As the Oscars approach, I made a point the other night of watching Billy Wilder’s 1960 film, “The Apartment,” which won the Academy Awards that year for Best Picture, Best Director, and Original Screenplay, among others. The film got me thinking about the trade-offs all self-employed people make. The movie tells the story of a […]

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