To succeed in working from home takes self-discipline and creative touches to give yourself the best chance of producing great work while keeping a firm grip on the precious work-life balance.
Here’s a checklist of ways to convert part of your home into a home office and ways to keep up your productivity outside the hustle and bustle of the traditional office space.
Freelancing has taken the world by storm in recent years as a viable alternative to the 9-to-5.
Technology is leading the push, allowing people to fill needs for employees in different time zones and on different continents.
Employers love the idea of paying contract rates rather than the more significant cost of on-boarding a new employee, and self-employed workers love the freedom and flexibility.
Though some people consider the concept of willing one’s self to success to be a romanticized myth, the many notable examples of people overcoming tremendous amounts of challenges and actually succeeding ought to be enough to give hope to entrepreneurs of all backgrounds. Bootstrapping a business to success is certainly a unique challenge, but the possibility of doing great things may be well within reach.
Here are five top tips and tricks for improving your relationships with colleagues while you’re working remotely.
As a general rule, that first tax day is a rude awakening for freelancers.
If you’ve left the corporate world behind to set out on your own course, you soon realize why all those deductions coming out of your paycheck every two weeks were necessary.
As individual proprietors, freelancers and other self-employed professionals are responsible for paying their taxes to the state and federal governments. You can do so one of two ways: either with four quarterly estimated tax payments or in a lump sum when you’re doing your taxes before April 15 each year.
Going toe-to-toe against the big guy was incomprehensible for most small-to-medium business (SMB) owners as recently as 10 years ago. Back then, SMB owners were solving problems with thumb tacks and elbow grease.
Cloud computing has changed the way that SMBs take on the Goliaths.