Building a freelance career requires multiple skills. One that's often overlooked is how to manage your personal finances. To make that a little easier, we’ve prepared personal finance tips that every freelancer should know.
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Many people want to learn how to start a (small) business this year. Half-baked business ideas are a dime a dozen, and it’s not unusual for an entrepreneur to have several possible ventures lined up. But what’s critical to finding real success is testing these ideas and refining your business concept before getting in over your head. Here’s a step-by-step walk-through on how to start a (small) business.
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Here's a guide on how to start a dropshipping business. We cover how to do research, find providers, and show you how to dropship based on industry success stories.
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Congratulations, someone wants to buy your business! Now, you have two options: hire a broker to deal with the negotiations and paperwork or learn how to sell a small business without a broker, keeping a higher percentage of your profits.
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As a web designer, your ability to bring in new customers depends on your ability to write successful web design proposals. But you can’t afford to spend three or four hours perfecting every proposal. You need your time to actually build websites – and a web design proposal template can give you this time.
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As you gain more work experience, it's only natural you will want to raise your rates. With a regular job, wage increases are usually part and parcel of employment. However, this takes on a different scope if you're a freelancer or self-employed. As such, you'll need to negotiate raises directly with clients, which sometimes might mean losing them.
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One thing that's fairly surprising when you start offering software products is the never-ending stream of feature requests. And the more popular your "thing" gets, the more requests you'll receive. That is why a good "Feature Request" system is so important. Here's a case study of how to build one.
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If you’ve ever tried to learn how to sell on Facebook, you know that it’s (how do I put this lightly) an “interesting” experience. Facebook rules, interfaces, security, and just about every part of the social network changes on a regular basis. Many times, it seems like the modifications have nothing to do with helping out users. And those modifications definitely aren’t trying to help out businesses, unless you’re paying for ads.
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I got a unique opportunity to test all the business card services on our list. And now, I’m finally ready to share it with you. Here are the best business card printing options available on the market today.
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There are many different things you have to do when starting a business, and choosing the right name is among the most important. You want something memorable and also something that conveys what your business offers to potential customers. Luckily, there are many free business name generators out there to help you make the right choice.
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If you want a high-quality website for your business and you don’t want to spend dozens or hundreds of hours learning design, your best bet is to hire a web designer. Unfortunately, anyone can claim to be a web designer but not everyone can deliver results.
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Accurate accounting is a key component of any successful business. However, important tasks like payroll processing can be tedious and time-consuming. Therefore, you might be wondering if there’s a tool that can help you make that process a little easier.
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Why learn how to write a business plan? Business plans lead to focus, clarity, and better communication of a brand’s inner workings. It’s also become more common for people to see business plans as ways to get funding for a company. But that’s not really how it works.
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Any successful store requires a solid Point of Sales (POS) system to receive payments from walk-in customers as well as online sales. A POS system is usually an additional tool/software built over eCommerce stores or payment processing tools. While they may have started off as mere cash registers, they have come to pack a lot more punch nowadays. The best POS system solutions record sales data, manage inventory, generate reports, store customer contact data and more.
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It’s been a while since we hosted an interview on CodeinWP. This time, I’m talking to one of the business veterans in the WordPress community, founder of iThemes, Cory Miller. Cory is an outspoken guy and we manage to touch ground on three very hot subjects these days: themes, mental health and coaching.
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As your company grows, you may find that your existing team is no longer able to handle all the work necessary to keep things running. This means you’ll need to conduct some hiring – but what kind of workers should you look for? Should you hire a freelancer? To answer that question, it helps to understand the drawbacks and benefits of working with freelancers.
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Outsourcing software development can be a great way to save money while still getting high-quality work. However, there are some things you need to know about outsourcing before you can do it effectively. For starters, you need to know what are the best countries to outsource software development to so you can focus your search in an effective way.
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Client testimonials are the lifeblood of any business. If you want to attract bigger and better clients, first you need to show that you're good at what you do. And no matter how comfortable you are at selling yourself, praise is more believable when it comes from someone else. Knowing how to get client testimonials is an essential skill for every entrepreneur.
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We asked 30+ different agencies and freelancers in the dev-design-tech segment to tell us what makes a good client in their book, and what drives them crazy when things don't work out as planned. Here's what they said.
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Pricing is one of the most important traits of any product. To this end, WordPress theme cost should be a crucial sales factor. Yet, looking at the state of the WordPress market today, there's a bewildering array of different approaches to pricing models.
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