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I’m Betty, and I’ve been building my freelance life since 1998. Send me your questions about freelancing and running your small business. I’ll do my best to give you answers. I’ll also share my experiences and my ever-changing opinions.

I truly believe in “community, not competition.” Join the conversation: send in those questions and comment on posts. Together we can make freelancing less mysterious and more profitable, and of course fun and rewarding!

How can I keep track of projects between revisions?

A reader wrote in: I’m looking for a web app (cheap or free) that will allow me to enter projects as they come in and track how long they have been incomplete. Since part of the project involves waiting for client revisions, I can’t set a completion deadline, but I would like to track which […]

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Dice

Big Tax Surprise

I’ve been very careful about taxes my entire freelance career. With every check I receive, I set aside a percentage for taxes and business expense before I pay myself. I pay my quarterly estimated payments. And most years I’ve received a small refund or owed just a little. This year, I filed taxes late (with […]

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Summit of Pikes Peak

How can a freelancer take a vacation?

I’m on vacation. I arranged for other freelancers to help my clients while I am spending time with family. And today I spent about an hour working. Mostly I was sending files to others so they could make changes for the clients. Some of the time was spent on the phone with the freelancers, helping […]

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Hurry ASAP! Rush fees.

Rush jobs, rush policies, and rush fees

ASAP! Need this today! Urgent! Top Priority! A lot of my projects have quick deadlines. And I’m happy to accommodate those when I can. But doing rush projects makes it difficult to schedule other work, and often means that I will be pushing off other client work and working long hours or on the weekends. […]

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About me

I'm Betty, and I created Freelance Q & A to share what I've learned as a successful freelance graphic designer.

I'm based in Boulder, CO and work with clients across the USA. You can visit my business site and see my portfolio at
Betty Taylor Design.

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