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New book helps you not make stupid mistakes
This new book could help you avoid silly mistakes when you talk and write You've penned a pitch to a prospective client. You've hit the send button...
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Procrastinating is linked to health and career problems – but there are things you can do to stop
By Fuschia Sirois, Durham University Fuschia Sirois Do you ever beat yourself up for procrastinating? You might be composing that message to a frie...
Contractors
How to get your agency to negotiate higher rates on your behalf
Q: I've seen a freelance/contractor role that I really want to go for but know that I must raise my rate to be in line with inflation. What guidanc...
Business & Finance
Steps freelancers can take to get paid on time
By Gary Prince, Chief Strategy Officer at SimplyPayMe Gary Prince pf SimplyPayMe Earlier in the year, a report by the Federation of Small Businesse...
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Delegation: how to delegate like a pro to earn more money and achieve work-life balance
A Caunce O’Hara survey of 200 reveals exactly how freelancers are managing their time and how they could better develop the essential business buil...
News
Stress cues like nail-biting make you more likeable, says study
Nail biters, hair twirlers, item fidgeters, lip biters, to shoulder shifters. Most of us exhibit some form of physical cue or outlet when we experi...
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Financial services to see boom for career-changers and freelancers
The number of qualified financial advisers in the UK is on the decline, leaving a gap in career-changing opportunities. The Freelance Informer spea...
Lifestyle
Report: colour impacts how people treat you
Colour has an impact on how people treat and react to you. Whether it be the colours of your car, clothes, the colour of your hair or the colours o...
Freelancer Finance
Inflation-beating survival tips for solo entrepreneurs
The solo entrepreneur boom of the COVID-19 pandemic bucked the typical pattern of company creation during other economic times of crisis, according...
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Freelancer rates in these sectors could soar
A lot has been said about employment, inactivity and job vacancies over the pandemic, but what’s happening to earnings? Salary trends in earn...
Career tips
How freelancers can get more done in a day
Not feeling the work-life balance lately? Feeling constantly under pressure with not enough time in the day to finish assignments? Then these time ...
Contractors
Are you better off as a contractor or consultant in 2022?
Inside IR35 jobs have made skilled contractors question if they can even afford this method of employment. What’s the point if you are no longer se...