Freelance Training Course – Learn how to build your freelance career online

In this free course, you will discover how LifterLMS empowers you to easily create, sell and protect engaging online courses. If you’re serious about your online course, LMS or membership project, be sure to become a LifterLMS Pro Member so you can get priority private support, some graphic design assets (achievement badge packs & certificate backgrounds), and access to special discounts and promotions that only LifterLMS Pro Members can take advantage of.

Crunch Accounting Review

Crunch accounting is an online accountancy service – with a difference. Where as with a pure online accounting software, which requires you to input all of your income and outgoings and relying on yourself to make sure you’re reporting in the correct way, Crunch has a team of accountants waiting at the end of the … Read more

Freelance Expenses: What costs can you claim for?

If you’re self-employed, your business will have various running costs. You can deduct some of these costs to work out your taxable profit as long as they’re allowable expenses. ExampleYour turnover is £40,000, and you claim £10,000 in allowable expenses. You only pay tax on the remaining £30,000 – known as your taxable profit. Allowable … Read more

Getting your business the online exposure it deserves – the 2018 guide

Every business, regardless of size or industry, needs online exposure. In 2018, this is no longer just a theory, but a tried and true fact. Most businesses, however, simply don’t know where to begin. Many think that just having an attractive website and listing on Google translates into an ‘online presence’, but with competitiveness rising … Read more

2015 Year in Review

Travel Selfie by Seth Eckert   As a freelancer and small business owner, I find it vitally important to take a regular step back and look at what I’ve been working on for the past year, to help shape the year ahead. I’ve had my head so buried in work in recent months that it’s taken … Read more

2014 Year in Review

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I’ve been enjoying reading various 2014 Year in Review posts, including Stephen Waddington, Nathan Barry and Patrick McKenzie, so thought I’d share my own mini review of the year, concentrating on this blog as my main source of online activity (outside of work).

Here are the main stats for this blog in 2014.

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What should a 2013 not-for-profit look like?

The good people behind OpenTech 2013 posed a great question as one of their potential sessions for the event happening on 18th May in London: What should a 2013 not-for-profit look like? It caught my eye a few weeks ago and I’ve been pondering it ever since, not only because I’ve had experience in starting … Read more

Social Media Trends 2012

It’s that time of the year where the good and the great of the social media world come out in force to predict the next-big-thing and sweeping social media, social marketing and social commerce trends that we’ll see in 2012. Below is a constantly updated list of the social media and social commerce trends and … Read more