Running your freelance business

Contracts, time management, tools, legal and tax basics, and when to build a team.

In this lesson

Business basics
Tools and data protection
Growing beyond solo

Key points

Track pipeline, income, effective rate
Contracts with IP, confidentiality, data terms
Least-privilege access to client systems
Grow by price, niche, subcontracting or agency

Real-world example

Bola tracked her effective hourly rate and found fixed-price website gigs paid half her support work. She dropped them, raised her support rate and freed ten hours a week.

Questions and answers

Name three contract clauses.

Scope, payment schedule, IP, confidentiality, data protection, governing law.

When form an agency?

When demand reliably exceeds your hours and you can manage others.

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