The end of the month is traditionally a day for many web writers to finalize gigs to meet deadlines and get all their bookkeeping in order. If I have to pick my least favorite part about being a freelance writer it’s the business stuff. Accounting, paperwork, creating invoices for each client…I can think of other things I prefer to do. What is your least favorite part of freelancing?
Leads…
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Good luck!
Thanks for the great leads Deb
Mucho thanks for the leads, Deb. BTW, the new look today is nice and navigates well.
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I’m with you Deb. Invoices are quite tedious and I prefer when clients pay automatically without the need for an invoice. When you start putting together a bunch of clients, each of whom needs an invoice every week or month, each in their own specific format, it starts to add up to a lot of extra work.
This is my first time visiting this site, Thank you for the leads , I hope i get some jobs.
I don’t mind invoicing because it means that I’m getting paid
The most tedious part is the whole prospecting machine. Even if I’ve got lots of work, I still need to check job boards, cold call and socially market myself to keep the jobs coming in. Marketing is a full time job in itself.
Thanks for the leads. When my son was a toddler, I had him “help” me with invoices. He could read check numbers to me, use the PAID stamp, file, etc. Seeing that Mom was earning money gave him a better understanding of why I couldn’t always drop everything and go play trucks with him at any given moment. I’m with Princess: I could write invoices all day if it means I’m getting paid! The tedious part for me now is hauling off to the library to see what’s been published in magazines I want to query, and figuring out the best fit for a piece of writing. I made myself a weekly writing schedule and include this task about every other week. I know I can kiss off an entire morning, but if I’m lucky, I won’t have to do it very often.
BTW, the new color scheme is just beautiful! I love it!!!
My least favorite aspect of freelancing is paying quarterly business taxes for sure. I know that those taxes get paid when you’re on another company’s payroll as well, but getting 100% of your money and then having to give some of it back to the IRS is painful. I’d just rather not see that tax money at all.
That’s a hard one, Alik. It took me a few years but when I was doing construction as an S corp I pretty much just took 25% of all my gross and stuck it aside and whenever my accountant told me to pay a check I wrote it for the amount he said I needed. I kept the tax money in a separate account from the business checking…basically I had a business checking, a tax account, my personal checking, and a savings account. Once a year I’d take what was left from the tax account and roll it over to my personal savings. I had 16 thousand in the bank by the time I was 22 years old, simply by “forgetting” about roughly 25% of my income.
Of course, that money got spent somewhere along the way (I’m a vacation junky, what can I say!) but I learned early on to just shove a portion away and forget about it. Nobody likes giving money to Uncle Sam, and that was just my personal way of dealing with it. Probably won’t work for everyone, but that’s how I coped.
I also had a really great accountant that I used for years who literally took every bit of the hassle off of me. I paid him a couple thousand a year and I never had to worry about anything other than write checks when and for what amount he told me.
The “writing gig with good compensation” is a scam for referrals, the emails come back saying:
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I just came over to tell you that the “Writing Gig with Good Compensation” was a referral link, but I see Tina beat me to it.
Fortunately, I love paperwork, accounting, etc. The one thing I dislike the most about being a freelancer? No paid sick leave.