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We're warming up for National Freelancers Day on 23rd November 2011.

This year is even more fun filled than before, we have a lecture, webcasts, research and a fantastic quiz to put your freelance prowess to the test!!

Freelancers are likely to suffer cashflow problems as late payments increase during the Olympic Games according to a warning from a leading finance company.

Small and medium-sized enterprises may be set to dump the Royal Mail en masse following this week’s rise in the cost of postal services, new data from business services company Sage UK suggests.

Though unemployment has fallen by 0.1%, to 8.3%, there were still 2.65 million people out of work in the three months to February 2012, the latest statistics from the Office of National Statistics report.

If, like me, you value the recommendations of friends and trusted colleagues, then a new website for business products should be well worth repeat visits.

The idea behind BestVendor.com is to create a resource for reviews and recommendations of business products in a way that people trust.

Freelance research is really hotting up these days with projects ranging from academic research into the size of the sector (1.56 million freelancers) by freelance trade association PCG, to light hearted research into topics such as freelancer's need for smartphones shown by accountancy firm Crunch around National Freelan

“I tend to be known as a personal and business coach,” says Fiona Harrold, a world-renowned life coach and the bestselling author of Be Your Own Life Coach, The 10-Minute Life Coach, Reinvent Yourself, Indestructible Self Belief and The 7 Rules of Success.

Are you a freelancer who can prove your entrepreneurial worth? If so, and your business is relatively new – or even still in your head – a new competition from telecoms and media giant Virgin could be for you.

Planning for your retirement should be part of the National Curriculum, according to Nigel Green. As he’s CEO of the world’s largest financial advisory firm, the deVere Group, you may think he’s just trying to drum up business, but the statistics are a little more compelling.

It’s estimated that just over 10 million people will be filing Self Assessment returns this year and that includes all of us freelancers.

Hettie Maylam, 27, is a student of multimedia journalism – “Which is like an MA,” she says – at Winchester University. Her course finishes at the end of this month and, naturally, she’s thinking about what she’ll do then. The answer? “I’ll probably freelance.”

As well as being Freelancing Matters’ new editor, David Prosser is new to freelancing as well, so we asked him how he came to join the rest of us.

Freelance working is a way of life all around the world, as Hungarian Peter Csobanczi illustrates.

PCG's Guide to Freelancing; - the ultimate starter and refresher pack for freelancers in the UK. The Guide to Freelancing provides a useful source of information to new and established freelancers and small business owners.

If you’ve just stumbled onto this website in a search around the internet, looking for information for freelancers, you may be wondering what Freelancing Matters is and, more importantly, what it has to do with you.

Samuel Goldwyn said, “A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.” It’s certainly a good quote, but it isn’t strictly true. In fact, a verbal agreement in which one person agrees to do something in exchange for payment, whether in person or on the telephone, is legal binding.