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A small business owner’s guide to using social media – Part 2

Feb 14, 2011Guest Writer1 CommentWorkapplications, blogging, customer service, freelancing, social media, Software, tools, Twitter

This post is continued from Part One of A small business owner’s guide to using social media by Phoebe Netto of Good Business Consulting Just like society has golden rules and universal principles on how to interact with others, social media also has similar rules to operate by. Social media is one of the greatest

A small business owner’s guide to using social media

Feb 11, 2011Guest Writer2 CommentsWorkblogging, clients, freelancing, language, SaaS, social media, Software, tools, Twitter

This is the first part of a two-part series by Phoebe Netto, the Managing Director of Good Business Consulting, a marketing and public relations consultancy for small-to-medium businesses. Phoebe has a background in public relations and marketing, and takes these skills that are often reserved for big businesses with big budgets, and uses them to help

Who is your customer – really?

Feb 1, 2011Anthony Caruana2 CommentsWorkbusiness, clients, customer service, freelancing, tools, wealth

Knowing who the decision makers are is an important part of business. You need to know who will be signing your contracts when you’re negotiating with a new client.

6 tips for freelancing on the side

Jan 26, 2011Anthony Caruana2 CommentsWorkfreelancing, moonlighting starting out, transition

Many freelancers have to balance their independent employment witha fulltime job. Here are 6 tips for balancing a full time job with freelancing.

5 tips for getting paid

Jan 25, 2011Anthony Caruana2 CommentsMoney, Workbusiness, finances, invoicing, pay rates, payment, work value

The thrill of the job is great, but getting paid is what it’s all about

Contracts – model contracts

Jan 21, 2011Anthony CaruanaWorkbusiness, contracts, freelancing, getting paid, payment

Having reviewed some of the key components of a freelance contract it’s time to look at a couple of actual contracts. I’m not saying that these are the contracts you ought to use (I’m not a lawyer – you should get legal advice before signing a contract) but they’re examples of the sorts of contracts

Contracts – copyright, ownership and intellectual property

Jan 20, 2011Anthony CaruanaWorkbusiness, contracts, copyright, customer service, freelancing, getting paid, intellectual property, ownership

When you complete a piece of work and deliver it to a client can you re-use it with another client? Or, can the client then use it over and over? Can they on-sell it? Can you resell it to another client? All of these questions have, at their heart, the basic principles of copyright, ownership

Contracts – defining the scope of work

Jan 19, 2011Anthony CaruanaWorkbusiness, business management, client management, clients, contracts, pay rates, payment, scope

It’s amazing but so often I hear of freelancers who end up in dispute with clients over what seems to be obvious – neither party understood what the other understood the work to be. In today’s instalment on freelance contracts I’m going to be short and sweet. As a freelancer – before you agree to

Contracts – liability, indemnity and risk management

Jan 18, 2011Anthony Caruana1 CommentWorkcontracts, indemnity, insurance, liability, risk management

Who wears the risk if something goes wrong? That’s the subject of today’s instalment on freelance contracts. While we all have the best of intentions, there are times when things can turn out unexpectedly. But before we can look at the issues of liability and indemnity, it’s worth starting with few definitions and basic principles. Disclaimer –

Business basics = looking like a professional

Jan 17, 2011Anthony Caruana1 CommentWorkbusiness, professionalism, relationships, setting up

You want to be taken seriously don’t you? If you’re self-employed you may think it’s impossible to have all the shiny and expensive infrastructure that folks working in large companies have. Well, that’s simply not true. I’m going to share something with you. It’s possible to look like a professional without having a massive budget. In fact, you can