Though freelancing is spreading to a wide range of industries, U.S. freelancers are still heavily concentrated in creative fields. While a small percentage are savvy business people focusing significant energy on growing and managing their businesses, most of us are not. As a general rule, writers want to write and designers want to design and so on. Few of us want to market, keep the books, sort out our tax deductible expenses, track our effective hourly rates, cultivate client relationships, or assess the return on our investment of time, money, and effort.
We do, however, want to make money, get referrals and repeat business from past clients, and otherwise succeed in whatever field we’ve chosen.
Approaching freelance work like the business it offers many benefits, including: Continue reading “9 Reasons to Run Your Freelancing Business Like a Business”