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To sail the wide accountant-sea! My latest business and money-saving tip: pay an accountant. No, seriously.

I’ve just completed my first full financial year of self employment – and, like my past anniversaries, I’ve blogged a little business advice. This time it’s job sheets and project folders – the best way for the busy freelancer to organise themselves.

Yes, just like I said I would in my “year ahead” post below, I’m really pushing my marketing at the moment. My target is to find at least two opportunities per day; yesterday and today it’s been people I know and agencies I respect. There’s a few of them, too, so that should continue for [...]

Last night was the East Anglian CIPR (Chartered Institute of Public Relations) PRIDE awards – which I went along to, and at which the project I was there with (Running the Gauntlet) won two gongs. A gold and a silver. My role in the project was as an internal consultant – providing advice and support [...]

As long as I’ve been writing professionally – for over six years now – I’ve been aware of the need to write for people who don’t necessarily have English as a first language. Whether it’s writing for an international intranet for a pharmaceutical company or for a regional website recently in the news for initiatives [...]

I’m finding this out more and more lately. It’s the little things which you never think about until, like me, you suddenly have lots and lots of time. The big things – like regular pay, sick leave, having people around you, IT support – I never took those for granted. I was always grateful for [...]

It’s been a difficult couple of days, to be honest. Some hellos and some goodbyes: Hello – to the new version of Blogger. I’ll be sorting the template out tomorrow, and taking advantage of the new-found ability to tag posts with keywords – and to generate feeds for each keyword, which is going to make [...]