by Cindy Dashnaw | Jun 26, 2017 | Event, Freelance Austin Blog
“Do you want more clients? Do you want to keep good clients coming back?” Nearly early every head in the room nodded (rather vigorously) in response to Jed Jones, co-founder and chief data scientist at MindEcology. The key to achieving these goals, he said, is using...
by Cindy Dashnaw | Apr 5, 2017 | Event, Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips, Meeting Recaps
Tax day is April 18 this year. Even if you’ve already filed, CPA Mari Ramirez undoubtedly shared something you didn’t know at the March Freelance Austin meeting, including these five frequently forgotten items on our personal and/or business returns. #1. “You ain’t...
by Kristen Hicks | Mar 1, 2017 | Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips
One of the trickiest parts of being successful as a freelancer is figuring out how to manage your money well. Financial management is hard for most people, but when your income is inconsistent and your tax liability is higher than it is for the average person, it gets...
by Margaret Nicklas | Dec 16, 2016 | Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips
If you ever took a course in psychology, you may remember the famous work of Burrhus Frederic (B.F.) Skinner. Skinner worked with rats and pigeons in the mid 20th century and discovered certain things about how animals respond to specific methods of reinforcement. In...
by Kristen Hicks | Dec 9, 2016 | Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips
Bad clients come in many forms. The longer you work as a freelancer, the more you see the wide variety of clients—good and bad—that exist. Often (although not always), bad clients provide some kind of warning sign early on that there are likely to be problems. The...
