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Happy Birthday Freelancers!
If the freelancer community in the UK has a birthday – then today is the day!
23rd of November 1999 is the day that PCG – originally known as the Professional Contractors Group – but now shorted to PCG – the voice of the freelance community – came into effective being.
Written by Editor on November 23, 2010 and filed in Featured, News Freelance Jobs, freelancers, national freelancers day
Freelancers love life! Are happier about their health, financial situation, their prospects…and their wife, husband or partner!
A ComRes survey, commissioned by PCG, published today (Nov 22nd) shows that nearly three-quarters (73%) of the 1,624 polled had actively chosen to become freelancers as a long-term career option in a survey to celebrate National Freelancers Day, the freelance community’s birthday.
Written by Editor on November 22, 2010 and filed in Featured, Freelancers, News Freelance Jobs, freelancers, national freelancers day
Freelancers: does cold calling give you the chills?
How do you search for work as a freelancer? Do you feel uncomfortable asking for it? Does cold-calling give you the chills?
Or do you believe: “If you don’t ask, you don’t get”?
Written by Editor on November 13, 2010 and filed in Featured, Frazzled Freelancer, Opinion Finding freelance work, Freelance Jobs, freelancers
Lord Young says Freelancers help Small and Growing Businesses
Writing in today’s Telegraph, Lord Young – the government’s Enterprise Tsar – recognised that more and more small and growing businesses are using freelancers and contractors to avoid the too heavy burden of employment legislation.
But should he reform employment law or simply allow freelancers to work freely without IR35 risks?
Written by Editor on November 11, 2010 and filed in Entrepreneurs, Featured, Freelancers, Opinion end of employment, freelance roles, Lord Young
5 Tips on how to avoid the feast and famine of work
Does your work swing between feast and famine?
Read our 5 top tips to see what you can do to calm the work flow…
Written by Editor on November 2, 2010 and filed in Featured, Freelancers, Opinion Freelance Jobs
Brookson sees opportunity in chancellor’s spending cuts
Martin Hesketh, managing director of Brookson provides an upbeat analysis of wednesday’s announcements
Written by Editor on October 22, 2010 and filed in Entrepreneurs, Featured, Money, News, Opinion Freelance Jobs, freelance opportunities
Freelancers – Osborne – did he help or hinder freelancers?
The range of measures announced by George Osborne on 20th October was sweeping but largely expected.
So, as the dust begins to settle, has Mr Osborne helped freelancers or has he hindered them?
Written by Editor on October 21, 2010 and filed in Featured, Money, News, Opinion Freelance Jobs, freelancer, North West Freelancers
The video: What is the Enterprise Freelance Fair really like?
Do you think you might have missed something?
No worries – find out what delegates thought and how you might benefit next time…
Written by Editor on October 19, 2010 and filed in Featured, Freelance events article, Video chester freelance work, enterprise freelance fair, freelancers, liverpool, wirral
Seven top tips for Freelancer Success
Lionel Bunting shares with us his seven top tips for freelancer success.
From understanding your audience to pricing correctly and communicating, they all seem perfectly sensible. But how many of them did we follow?
Hmmm… truth now…
Written by Editor on October 4, 2010 and filed in Featured, Freelance Jobs, Freelancers, Opinion freelancers, Lionel Bunting, North West Entrepreneurs, North West Freelancers
Freelancers: work from home, the kitchen, Starbucks or a posh office?
This week the Frazzled Freelancer steps out of the front door (yes, over the pile of kids toys and past the yapping dog) to ask the burning question we all ask…
… am I better off in an office? And does it have to be beautiful for clients to be willing to do business with me?
This and all other questions are raised and pondered in this week’s edition from the Frazzled Freelancer.
Written by Editor on September 17, 2010 and filed in Featured, Frazzled Freelancer, Freelancers, Opinion flexible offices, freelancer offices, working from home
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