Hunting, Gathering and Accounting: Freelance Survival Skills

We’ll help aspiring freelancers -- or staffers who might wind up having to freelance next week -- accelerate the learning curve with advice about issues that may seem obvious to experienced, self-employed journalists but aren’t well documented for beginners.

For instance:

how to record your expenses but not go into Excel hell

how not to forget a pitch or lose sight of what happened to it

how much time to devote to developing new clients and marketing yourself

how to avoid making tax time an accounting mess

how to improve your online presence, often the first thing that clients see

We’ll include more time than usual for Q&A, because there’s no way we’d be able to cover all possible questions on our own.

This session is designed for:

Freelancers, current and possible future

Anyone who wants to brush up on self-employment basics

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