Freelancing
Whether you’ve always been your own boss or you’ve just started flying solo, you need a strong cocktail of creativity, energy, and adaptability. Shaken or stirred?
Articles
The Basics of Budgeting
The following is an excerpt from “Art & Numbers: A Financial Guide for Artists, Writers, Performers, and Other Members of the Creative Class.” We also picked Elaine’s brain on money management for the creative class. Check out that Q&A here.... ➡
Money Management for the Creative Class
A Q&A with Elaine Grogan Luttrull, Author of “Arts & Numbers” ➡
Every Woman Can Learn Programming
Want to be super-employable and well-paid? Learn how to write Web programming code—it’s not nearly as difficult as you think. About 250,000 new software developer jobs will be created in the U.S. over the next decade, according to the Bureau of... ➡
Flying Solo: Can a Nervous Nellie Be a Freelancer?
I’m the last person you’d imagine striking out on her own. I’ve always liked the camaraderie of having like-minded colleagues, the comfort of getting a paycheck every two weeks, and funding my retirement with a 401k. Need I add that I’m extremely... ➡
Flying solo: The financial side of Freelancing
So far, I’ve been amazed (and a little unprepared) for all the tiny and not-so-tiny things it takes to start even a low-overhead, one-person enterprise like mine. In the past two or so months, I’ve had to:1) Research and buy a new printer and... ➡
Five Ways to Kill It as a Freelancer
It used to be that if you described yourself as “freelance,” people didn’t take you seriously. Not anymore. A recent survey by the consulting firm MBO partners estimates that by 2020, at least half of the country’s workforce will have gone... ➡
Document Your Agreements
If I can point to the one thing that probably led to over $1,000,000 worth of mistakes that I've made in my businesses (and I have the debt to prove it), it was that I spent little, if any, time documenting agreements. Documents, records, and... ➡
Saying ‘Yes’ Pays Off
When I moved to Philadelphia a year ago, I was broke—25 years of living in New York, the past five of it as the breadwinner for my family, can do that. Don’t focus on making new friends, I told myself: "Make money" Yet my first move was the... ➡
