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You may not be interested in the PRO Act, but it’s interested in you

March 8, 2021 by Jake Poinier

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toxic soup of ABC in the PRO ActPRO Act. ABC test. Two acronyms that could negatively affect all U.S. freelancers, whether we’re writers, editors, designers, or any other type of independent contractor in a creative freelance enterprise. The tl;dr scoop is this: With barely a hearing or discussion, the U.S. House of Representatives will soon be voting on the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, a.k.a., PRO Act (a.k.a., H.R. 842). The act would codify into federal law California’s stricter ABC test (rather than the existing IRS test) for classifying workers as independent contractors vs. employees. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Manage Your Freelance Business Tagged With: employment law, rants, self-employment, survival tips

Notes from the past to my future freelance self

August 31, 2018 by Jake Poinier

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freelance selfIt was August 1999 when I bolted my corporate job and launched Boomvang Creative Group as a full-time freelance writer and editor. If I could step back to day 1 of 19 years of self-employment, here are some notes I would have provided to my future freelance self: [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Manage Your Freelance Business Tagged With: best practices, learning from experience, lessons, self-employment, survival tips, surviving difficult times

Are you a freelancer, an entrepreneur, or both?

July 3, 2018 by Jake Poinier

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freelancer entrepreneurOn Father’s Day, I riffed on whether entrepreneurship has a genetic component. In the wake of that post, I found it interesting that more than a few freelancers didn’t really consider themselves entrepreneurs. I decided to do some unscientific polling on Twitter and Facebook, asking the question “If you’re a freelancer, do you consider yourself an entrepreneur?” With about 120 total respondents, the results lean 55% no on Facebook, while about two-thirds on Twitter say yes. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Manage Your Freelance Business Tagged With: entrepreneurship, how to succeed as a freelancer, self-employment

Is entrepreneurship genetic?

June 15, 2018 by Jake Poinier

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entrepreneurship genetic
Hometown club championship, sometime in the mid-’80s. I’m confident it bugged my dad that I had the golf bag slung backwards!

My dad was a self-employed salesman through much of his career—and I’ve now flown solo for two-thirds of mine—so the idea that working for yourself could somehow be coded into your DNA has always piqued my interest. So…is entrepreneurship genetic, environmental, or a little of both? [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Manage Your Freelance Business Tagged With: entrepreneurship, Father's Day, self-employment

18 years of freelancing, 18 business lessons

August 31, 2017 by Jake Poinier

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business lessons on the 18th birthday of freelancingI used to know the exact date I walked out of the corporate world with The Box and started my freelance business. Today, I only remember that it was in August 1999. Yep, as of this birthday my business is old enough to vote, buy a lottery ticket, join the army, or drink in Canada and much of Europe. Here, in no particular order, are 18 business lessons from 18 years in business: [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Manage Your Freelance Business Tagged With: best practices, learning from experience, lessons, self-employment, surviving difficult times

Do luck and superstition affect your freelance business?

November 3, 2016 by Jake Poinier

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luck superstition businessI’d originally planned to post on this topic for Halloween, but the World Series dovetailed into my thoughts about the role of luck and superstition in freelance business success, so here I am. I’ll confess, I was chronically superstitious as a kid, due to growing up as a Boston Red Sox fan back in the days when their pattern was to get to big games…only to lose in spectacular and heart-breaking fashion. I had lucky (and jinxed) shirts and hats. If a traffic light turned green before I got to it or if my favorite song came on the radio, that was an auspicious sign. I stuffed a four-leaf clover in the middle finger of my baseball glove. Alas, none of my efforts altered the fact the Sox were quite simply and thoroughly cursed. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Manage Your Freelance Business Tagged With: luck and superstition, science art and voodoo, self-employment

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