I'm blessed of late with clients who pay very promptly. Early, for the most part! But that doesn't mean that I shouldn't keep on top of things. To this end, I made sure and to set up a project management and invoice/billing tool so that I could easily create invoices through it, mark them as paid through it, and more importantly be reminded when the invoice came due.

For the first time yesterday I got a reminder that an invoice was overdue. I looked and sure enough, it hadn't been paid, though it was for a client that tends to be early time after time.  -- Read more

Yes, this title is a little mercenary, but that's what freelancers are. Mercenaries. We just don't use lances these days (except for freelance Renaissance Faire lancers). We use pens and laptops and video cameras. The being self-employed thing means that sometimes we have to get a bit creative in order to do certain things. -- Read more