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Protected: Find Your Way Through the Tax-Time Maze: 12 Tips for Freelancers

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Big News: health insurance in NY, NJ & OR!

Freelancers Union was awarded $340 million in federal loans to create member-driven, nonprofit health insurance options in New York, New Jersey, and Oregon. This is a huge step toward making health care more affordable, more accessible, and more respon… More

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21 Free Web Tools for Your Creative Business

If you want to work more effectively, be more productive and not spend more money doing it, join Grace Dobush of HOW Interactive for this live designcast on Monday, February 27 at 2-3 PM ET. Continue reading → More

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6 Tips for Generating Business Through LinkedIn

You may have established a LinkedIn profile, but you’re likely not taking full advantage of it. Learn how designers can maximize this social networking tool’s potential to find new client prospects. More

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More on: Too old to find design work?

I’ve received several messages so far this year that start off, “I’m 45 years old and starting over as a designer.” They usually go on to ask if I think there is a future for them in the design world.
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9 Steps to Freelance Success

It’s not too late to make this your most successful year yet as a freelancer. Check out these 9 steps that’ll help you jumpstart your freelance business. More

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Reading already read emails again?

More from one of my favorite blogging freelancers, Neil Renicker, of Renicker Studio, based in Tipp City, Ohio, on the topic of productivity! When you’re driving in the dark, in the pouring rain, and traffic in the other lane is … Continue read… More

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Marketing to Global Small Businesses

Freelance marketing consultant and lecturer in the Czech Republic, Magdalena (Madla) Cevelova, how she markets to Czech small business owners. Continue reading → More

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Podcast: Bryn’s tax surprise

When it comes to taxes, are you deducting everything you can? Journalist and copywriter, Bryn Mooth, wasn’t, but here’s what she’s doing from now on. Continue reading → More

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A Time Management System That Never Crashes

Laurel Black shares her paper-based time management system that prevents her from over-booking and never crashes. Continue reading → More

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