I’ve been working with a lot of people who’ve been wanting to go freelance – but they all worry about the same thing: money. Money is a scary thing for people, especially when you start getting paid multiple times a day, in amounts big and small.

I’ve decided to offer a new workshop, held here at my flat in London. There are 5 tickets available only – but don’t worry, if this ends up being a popular thing, I’ll open up more workshops in the future.

Some of the topics:

• Dealing with irregular income & setting up a budget
• Creating invoices, estimates and getting paid
• Tools for tracking these items
• Pros and cons of hourly, daily or project rates

I’ll make us some yummy lunch and munchies, as well as offer tea, coffee and drinks!

You can buy tickets and learn more at Eventbright and follow the event on Lanyrd.

Therefore, it’s very important that you have a good financial head on your shoulders. Otherwise, you could end up broke, in debt, or even lose your business.

It’s quite easy to forget about sticking to a budget or about saving when you’re making lots of money, but are you prepared for an emergency? Are you really prepared?

What if you’re out of work for six months because of being ill? What if your work dries up?

Here’s my five-step plan for being smart with your money, making the most of it–and finally–enjoying it!

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But have you heard about Keeping up with the Joneses of the Web? Every day there seems to be some new cool trend out there than can be accomplished with CSS3, HTML5 or a bit of Photoshop trickery. Five minutes after one person accomplishes this, it seems that it somehow has made it on to everyone else’s site. You know, things like gradients and drop shadows were once just on one or two sites on the web.

Keeping up with the Joneses online is just as dangerous as it is offline. Yes, you may have something shiny and new, but does it really help your business? Does it hurt your customers? What do they think when they see on your site the same thing they’ve seen on 300 other portfolios?

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Unfortunately, just because we stay at home it doesn’t mean that we save more money than someone who works outside of the home. Yes, we have to pay for less gas, we don’t have to pay to eat out, nor do we have as many car expenses. But if you’re not careful, you can actually spend a lot more than someone who does drive 30 minutes away to work.

Here are ten of the ways I’ve found to save money for everything we deal with as business owners.

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While you should be working on your business throughout the year, nothing is more important than sitting down and taking a good hard look at where you are and where you want to be.

A year ago to the exact date (of when I wrote this article!) I wrote an article about setting goals for your business in 2010. In it, I described both how to set a goal and how to work towards reaching it. I’d now like to talk about what happens after that first year–were the goals met and what to do about them now.

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I was recently contacted about doing some work in Expression Engine. Although I’ve never worked with Expression Engine before, I like to check out other CMS’s to see how they compare to WordPress, so I thought the project could be a fun one. The problem was that I’d never even looked at EE’s code, so how was I supposed to know how long it would take?

There are several ways of dealing with a project you’ve never worked on before. Let’s take a look at how we could approach unknown projects.

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