The June 8th election is only weeks away, and with (most of) the manifestos now out in the open, we thought it’d be a good idea to compare and contrast what’s on offer to the UK’s freelance and self-employed community. With no intention of influencing your vote, we present here all the published points relevant to […]
The chances are that, as a small business or a freelancer offering their services, you rely quite heavily on the internet. You’ve most probably come across the term SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and have some idea that getting an SEO expert to tweak your site can do wonders for your appearance in Google Search. Like […]
If you’ve launched one of these new-fangled tech startup contraptions, the likelihood is that you’re already feeling the pinch pretty hard. Unless you’ve got yourself a sugar daddy, a fairy godmother or a rich maiden aunt, money is most likely to be in short supply for some time to come. We can’t all be Elon Musk […]
Every year we like to spend as much time as is humanly possible drinking all the caffeine in a given city. The city of choice is chosen largely based on us setting up shop there, so it’s as much a celebration of our own modest expansion as it is the coffee itself. However, we’ve been […]
“Ten years ago the majority of businesses cited local staff as their main source of employees,” says PeoplePerHour founder, Xenios Thrasyvoulou. “Now the majority cite freelancers as their main source of hiring. This turnaround has been rapid and the change has taken some by surprise – perhaps this accounts for the recent fracas around the […]
One of the most effective ways of reaching a new audience and spreading word of your expertise is to take full advantage of Facebook’s marketing tools. The problem is that, to the newbie, it can look quite daunting. Since it’s one of the ways we reach new clients, we thought we’d give you a quick […]
The world of self-employment and tax is a crazy one at the moment. One minute you think you’re going to be paying extra dollops of national insurance, and the next you’re part of a huge U-turn. It’s all you can do to keep up. While the government works out what they want to do, we […]
Never has a budget announcement been so pertinent to the freelance and self-employed community. With headlines across the press claiming that the chancellor has launched an all-out attack on the independent workforce, we caught up with Kenny Fitzgerald at My Accountant Friend to find out how this budget will affect his clients, and whether it’s really […]
It suddenly feels like an unusual time to be a freelancer in the UK. From week to week, the variety of mixed messages coming out of Westminster – with regard to self-employment, freelancing or working as an SME – can leave you feeling embattled and supported in almost equal measure. Aside from last week’s IR35 […]