At some point in every freelancer’s life comes the time when keeping track of everything and generally finding enough time to keep up with all sides of the business gets a bit much. This is the time when most of us at least consider whether using a Virtual Assistant or generally starting to outsource repetitive [...]

4 years ago I started to learn a bit of coding and thought “making money from this is going to be easy”. Just over 1 year ago things got to the point where I was skilled and confident enough to officially go freelance. As our household looks forward to a decidedly frugal Christmas 2010, looking [...]

We’ve all been there. You know you’re unlikely to find anything that pays more than $4 an hour, but work is thin on the ground and you’re feeling optimistic. Thirteen hours later you’ve watched 8 seemingly sensible buyers fall for the cut and paste bids, had 2 people tell you you’ll never make it in [...]