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Want To Be a Freelancer? Here’s How to Get Started

Success

Finally, freelancers must develop basic financial management skills and/or outsource key tasks to an expert to handle responsibilities like bookkeeping and taxes. This might mean creating marketing materials, networking, engaging on social media and developing a website. This will help you market to the right clients at the right rates.

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3 ways outdated payroll processes hurt your business

Insperity

You also need to track voluntary deductions like health insurance and 401(k) contributions, prepare and file quarterly reports, and process w-2s at the end of the year. Hiring a bookkeeper or CPA. If you already have a bookkeeper or CPA, it’s easy to add payroll to their responsibilities. Costs more than doing it yourself.

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Making Taxes Less Taxing

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For example, the Wave Advisors program provides bookkeeping support and one-on-one accounting and payroll coaching. Each company offers free support, but this support varies by hours and by type (phone, video, chat or email). Some even offer additional help for a fee.

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A Guide to Hiring the Best Front Desk Staff for Your Practice

The Receptionist

Hard skills are the technical skills that can be taught, such as proficiency in Microsoft Office, bookkeeping, or the ability to type quickly. It can also include other benefits that sweeten the deal, such as paid time off, medical, dental, and life insurance, 401(k) retirement, stock options, and more. Next up are the hard skills.

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Should you go solo? 4 things for attorneys to consider

Ruby

From bookkeeping, office administration, and HR issues to marketing, website maintenance, and customer relationship management, running a firm is a full-time job by itself. That’s why only 1% of law school graduates start a solo practice, according to the American Bar Association. It takes months of preparation just to plan for it.

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Paralyzed on the football field, Eric LeGrand still dreams of walking but is flying high as an entrepreneur

Work Life

She’s the accountant, the bookkeeper, the driver, and more—but always a mom first. His care—from nurses, to treatment and meds, to rehab equipment—is paid for by insurance. “She used to call herself the Mom-ager,” LeGrand says. “She does everything behind the scenes.

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How to Disaster-Proof Your Electronic Data

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When you are backing up data, remember to include financial data, key human resources files, custom software, contracts or other legal documents, databases, insurance files and computer system backups, says Matthew Putvinski, director of Wolf and Company’s Information Technology Assurance Services group. Secure off-site.