Whether you are filing your own taxes or you hire a CPA, tax season always seems miserable for many. Even though the 2018 tax season isn’t over yet (see IRS due dates), there are things you can be doing now to make the 2019 tax season feel less a burden come this time next year. Staff Paperwork If you hire employees and/or contractors, you want to make sure
As a freelancer, there are lots of challenges and one of the earliest ones you’ll encounter is how much to charge for your time. This is a tough topic to cover because there’s no right answer. Ultimately, you should feel good about the money you’re making relative to the effort/work you’re putting in. The balance is charging enough to be commensurate with your skill, your time, your materials
When you’re self-employed, you have to be your own HR department. This includes looking for the right set of benefits to offer yourself (and your employees). It’s easy to overlook retirement plans. But not only will it save you in the long-run but in the short-term as well. Several different retirement plans are catered to small business. They are straightforward to set up also also easy to manage.
As a full-time consultant/freelancer, I take the jobs I want, the jobs I can find, and the jobs that happen to come my way. This gives me a lot of flexibility in my work schedule at the sacrifice of a “full-time gig”. There are a lot of pros and cons to freelancing. As a lifestyle, I find it works for me. But as a business, most of my
Invoicing can be hard to get under control, yet it’s critical to your business. You’re busy finding clients, working on projects, marketing… doing basically everything so it’s easy to feel pulled in every direction. The most boring things tend to fall through the cracks. For a lot of people, that’s accounting, bookkeeping, etc. Invoicing may not be the glamorous part of your job as an entrepreneur, but it’s