A selection of business news and articles to help make your business a success
There’s a harsh truth to freelancing and contracting: Not all your clients are going to be easy to deal with. In fact, a few are guaranteed to be downright challenging. Some will never seem fully satisfied, whilst others will make the payment process a negative...
As a contractor or freelancer, you’ll spend a lot of time building relationships. From communicating with current clients to meeting new prospects, things like shaking hands, phone calls, and email exchanges are all part and parcel of the self-employed lifestyle. But...
When you are your own boss, you need to set your own goals. There’s nobody else telling you what targets to hit or which aims you ought to achieve. It’s all up to you. You’re in charge of laying out the objectives. Every contractor and freelancer should create...
The best part of being a contractor is also its greatest pang. You can get paid in a number of different ways – but determining the right income structure can prove a bit of a headache. A lot of contractors elect to join umbrella companies when they first start out,...
The riddle of Making Tax Digital goes on, throwing up questions left, right and centre. Progress has, by all accounts, been slow, and is hobbled further by our political situation. The Conservatives, unsurprisingly, have chosen to delay the scheme as they work out the...
As a serious freelancer or contractor, you’ll need to make clear and consistent progressive changes to your business plan as you grow. Thinking ahead isn’t always the hard part, though. What’s really tricky is counting up the costs. Every adjustment you make, be it...
Nobody likes paying more money for a service than they’re used to. That’s why getting in touch with clients to tell them about a rate increase can feel like such an unpleasant task. It can take an age to plan the perfect phone call that puts a positive spin on price...
At Bright Ideas Accountancy, we know how satisfying the contractor lifestyle can be. You pluck jobs from an array of clients, seeing to them one at a time, shaking off any complacency that’d otherwise fester in steady employment. But you shouldn’t assume your finances...
In a big organisation, cowed by cubicles and lunch breaks, we’re prone to pleasing others for the sake of it. Employee behaviours are hard to unlearn: usually, they make us choose the option of least risk, because we rely on others for our wage, and they have to see...
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