By Patricia Ryan Thomas Starting a home-based business is exciting and rewarding. Exactly how rewarding is up to you. When you work for an employer the costs associated with doing business are hidden. When you hang out your own shingle, it’s important to accurately account for overhead. Expenses like space, equipment, materials, and labor must […]
Is Your Proposal Worth the Price?
By Angie Nelson When it comes to freelance writing, one of the most significant components of your business is in writing proposals. Doubtless, you spend a good portion of your time as a freelancer crafting proposals, be they responses to requests for proposals (RFPs), proposals for bidding sites, queries to magazines, or another form. Many […]
5 Signs It’s Time to Raise Your Service Rates
By Saskia Gregory I remember the moment I realized I was seriously undercharging for my services. The moment when, after years of quietly slogging away, I realized that if calculated how much I was being paid vs. how much time I spent working (including time spent on unpaid yet essential business tasks) that my hourly […]
“Taking Care of Business” Means Your Business!
By Carole Bennett In the early days of every business, one of the biggest hurdles to overcome, especially for women entrepreneurs, is the ability to consider what we have to offer as being worthy of value, of having the right to expect compensation for those things we do well. We’re raised to believe that being […]