Go Freelance

Having mentioned my podcast with Freelance Advisor, I mustn’t forget to tell you about their comprehensive and very readable guide to freelancing, Go Freelance, which has just been revised and updated for 2010. It covers everything you’d ever ask about going it alone, from getting started and understanding the legalities, to getting paid – and what to do if clients aren’t paying – to staying motivated when things get tough. All completely free and almost 2000 people have downloaded it already, which says a lot.
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Working 5 to 9
June 3, 2010 - 11:02 am
Tags: books, Emma Jones, Enterprise Nation, get-together for home workers, Inspired Entrepreneur, Nick Williams
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Yes, you did read that right, despite Dolly Parton’s chirpings! It’s the title of the latest book by Emma Jones, the founder of Enterprise Nation, the online resource for setting up and growing a home business. Emma has identified a growing band of people running businesses alongside their jobs, either to guard against possible future [...]
Are you a freeformer?
May 5, 2010 - 5:47 pm
Tags: freelancers, Twitter
Posted in Beating isolation, News, Resources | 1 comment
It’s been a busy week, what with making ourselves at home in the new house and firing up the brain cells, which have got rather too used to operating on Spanish time. Fortunately we got broadband in time for me to hear through Twitter – where I seem to hear all the best stuff – [...]
Unexpected pleasures
March 31, 2010 - 2:55 pm
Tags: books, Enterprise Nation, Twitter, Work from Home book
Posted in Chitchat, News, Resources, Social media | 4 comments
A and I have noticed before that it’s amazing what can happen when you let go of trying hard, and go off and do something else entirely. I’ve been doing a lot of work lately on content for the site and articles for other websites and blogs. But with the move coming up next week, [...]
It’s good to talk
March 16, 2010 - 6:22 pm
Tags: health, home offices, Linkedin, website, work/life balance
Posted in Beating isolation, News, Resources | No comments
One of the major problems of working from home is that being in the same place all the time makes it very difficult to get any perspective on challenging issues and you can end up tearing your hair out. I speak from experience! So I’ve been trialling the Work from Home Audit, which is a [...]
Jelly at Glove Factory Studios
March 14, 2010 - 11:14 pm
Tags: Coworking, get-together for home workers, getting out, Jelly, Linkedin
Posted in Beating isolation, Coworking, Jelly, News | No comments
I’m really excited to have another venue for Jelly, the beautiful and quirky Glove Factory Studios at Holt near Bradford-on-Avon. They are described as a contemporary renovation of an industrial heritage building and have to be experienced – the website has some lovely pictures, but you have to be there to appreciate the place, which [...]
In the pod
February 19, 2010 - 10:18 pm
Tags: Freelance Advisor, interviews, Linkedin, media
Posted in News, Resources, Working from home tips | 2 comments
We’re presently trying to find out where to host some audio clips I want to put on the site, with little progress to date. But I’m pleased to say you can listen immediately to me talking about the challenges of working from home by going to Freelance Advisor, an excellent site full of good advice [...]
‘What do you do?’
February 18, 2010 - 5:01 pm
Tags: Linkedin, workshops
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Just lately a few people have asked me ‘What do you actually do?’ or ‘How do you make a living?’ and those are very fair questions, as at the moment there is nothing on the website that gives any indication! The answer is that I have been working first on the content of the site, [...]
Jelly goes Enterprise Nation-wide
January 25, 2010 - 1:38 pm
Tags: Coworking, Emma Jones, Enterprise Nation, get-together for home workers, Jelly, Linkedin
Posted in Coworking, Jelly, News, Resources | No comments
Excellent news to start my home working week! My new page on starting your own Jelly has been featured on Enterprise Nation, the site for people setting up and developing a business from home. I have been posting on the EN forum for a while and exchanging the occasional tweet with Emma Jones, the site’s [...]
Just do one thing at a time!
January 21, 2010 - 12:49 pm
Tags: Coworking, freelancers, get-together for home workers, Jelly, Lee Cottier, website
Posted in Coworking, Jelly, News, Resources | No comments
I’m pleased to say my advice to myself worked and I was able to get stuck into my new webpage on how to start your own Jelly. It’s now published apart from some pictures I’m waiting for A to put on as we have a glitch with the site that means pictures have to go [...]
Jelly on ice
January 8, 2010 - 10:46 am
Tags: freelancers, get-together for home workers, getting out, Jelly, Somerset
Posted in Beating isolation, Jelly | No comments
A and I crunched carefully down the road yesterday to Jelly at The Old Church School and were joined by two other people who live locally and were able to walk in. Others were stranded by the ice and couldn’t make it. Having spent all the previous day at home, with not even a short [...]



