Checklist for Year-End

organizing personal and small business finance all year round makes year-end tax prep a lot less anxiety-inducing - income and expenses, categorizing transactions, and monitoring budgets and savings, and your life at tax time December 30, 2009

Time Billing for Freelancers

Who has the most problem keeping up with time tracking, invoicing, billing, and profitability? Creatives? Desktop Publishers? Graphic artists? You bet. Fanurio time tracking and billing software may be your solution October 29, 2009

Anti-Malware in Snow Leopard

Intego posted an article about Apple's new anti-malware function in Snow Leopard. This article provided a comparison of Apple's anti-malware function and VirusBarrier X5, and outlines some of the features that are present, or missing, in Apple's function. October 18, 2009

DiskLibrary now Snow

With the size of drives growing in leaps and bounds these days, a good backup solution is a necessity. If you use CDs or DVDs, this creates another problem. We have over 100 CDs of back client work. What do you do? October 14, 2009

Time billing gets iBiz upgrade

Creatives always find it difficult to stay on top of estimating, time tracking and billing. iBiz now offers Mac users for time-tracking, billing and project management designed to help free-lancers and small business owners stay on top of their billing September 25, 2009

Web Theft: What to do!

Noted author Susan Kirkland looks at web site piracy, and shares some insight into sites that have been ripped off, and how to protect yourself with some simple common law and copyright resources. August 18, 2009

Business: Virtual Assistants

Busy graphic designers have more important things to do than the chores that can easily and inexpensively be done by someone more qualified. This white-paper from Team Double-Click helps you understand why you don't necessarily need to hire someone if you've got a Virtual Assistant August 11, 2009

Is graphic design costing you money?

The pitfalls of using an inexperienced graphic designer can have financial and emotional consequences. Designers must understand what software program to use for the task at hand. Special guest designer Gary Reichel, experienced pre-press designer shares his experiences with Design Tools August 11, 2009

Time billing gets iBiz upgrade

Newly updated iBiz 4.1 brings new features to Mac users for time-tracking, billing and project management. Version 4.1 sports a pop-up calender for events, projects and to-dos, plus numerous other features and fixes ... designed to help free-lancers and small business owners stay on top of their billing August 10, 2009

How much should I charge?

In the Design Cafe I provided an answer to one of the most frequent questions we receive -- about pricing creative services. Whether you're a new designer, or a new freelancer, you need some basic starting points to answer the questions... How much should I charge? August 7, 2009