by Emily Morris | Jan 23, 2016 | Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips
If you currently own a business, or have ever thought about going down that road, intellectual property is an important issue to consider. Even for those who plan to stick with freelancing rather than build your business into something larger, you need to be aware of...
by Kristen Hicks | Jan 15, 2016 | Austin, Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips
If you live in Austin, you’ve probably noticed a trend in the past few years. Any time you’re talking with other Austinites, conversations increasingly find their way to one or both of two common subjects: Austin’s traffic Austin’s real estate market The two subjects...
by Kristen Hicks | Jan 8, 2016 | Austin, Faces of Freelance Austin, Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips
Faces of Freelance Austin is a monthly feature to get to know one of our many members just a little bit better. For our fourth installment, we check in with our hard working Co-Chair, LuAnn Glowacz. Want to nominate a member to be interviewed for this feature? Let us...
by Karen Aroian | Dec 28, 2015 | Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips
When you get sidetracked, do you think about how your lingering to-dos are not getting done because you’re too busy doing work for clients to work on your own business? Take a deep breath. You’re not alone. Business coach Sherry Lowry stumbled onto her theory of...
by Kamila Forson | Dec 4, 2015 | Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips, taxes
As a freelancer, you’re the boss—at tax time, too. If you earn more than $600 from independent work in a year, you’re officially in business as far as the IRS is concerned. With the help of Austin’s Parkhurst Consulting*, we’ve compiled a few helpful reminders for...
by Kristen Hicks | Nov 20, 2015 | Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips, Meeting Recaps
Every freelancer has a story for how they started freelancing. To start off our November Freelance Austin meeting, “Reset Your Default: Freelance as a Form of Self-Care,” Christine Moline shared her story with the room. Ten years ago, Christine had a stable full-time...
