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The Numbers Aren’t Pretty – But Is There An Emotional Toll to Freelancing in a Recession?

Freelancers are suffering a recession-linked double-whammy – not only are clients and customers cutting budgets, but the newly unemployed are swelling the ranks of the self-employed, and driving fees downward.
This New York Time article (found via the Copywriter Maven) looks at the recession’s effect on the self-employed (and under-employed), and touches on an often-overlooked [...]

Posted 07 June 2009 † Tom Chandler § Business of Freelancing § The Best Of the Underground ‡ Comments (9) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Simple Job Tracking For Freelance Writers (or, Maybe Paper is Better)

Ad agencies want to bill every minute of employee time to their clients, so they demand daily timesheets – which require each project have a unique tracking ID.
While I don’t track my time with such precision (any more), I have adapted my last ad agency’s job tracking system to my freelance practice, and while I’ve [...]

Posted 12 February 2009 † Tom Chandler § Business of Freelancing § Writer tools ‡ Comments (10) ° Also tagged: , ,

The Best Reason EVER to Begin Your Freelance Copywriting Career (or, Why We Freelance)

AT&T is now offering realtime monitoring services to small and medium sized businesses. Big Brother’s watching, and it turns out he’s your boss…

Posted 15 November 2007 † Tom Chandler § Underground Entertainment ‡ Comments (11) ° Also tagged: , , ,