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Ross Findlay

Tips and best practice when working freelance for multiple clients

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I recently moved from working full-time for one company to freelancing 1-2 days a week for a few different companies. I work in finance and operations for startups. It's been an interesting transition and chance to learn something about my own working style (both the good and bad!). Specifically; the small change of having to track my hours across different clients means I'm much more aware of my own productivity with the constraint of a fixed number of hours for each client each week. Those of you working freelance (currently or in the past), do you have any other tips to share that helped you make the transition from full-time?

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Emily Willis
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Hi Ross! When I was freelancing, I used the "Time Insights" colour blocking in Google Calendar. In the left-hand column below the month calendar view, there's a "Time Insights" headline. If you click the little line graph next to it, you can open up the setup & add different labels with different colours. Then when I started a new job, I'd start a new entry in my calendar. End of week I could easily add up the total hours & list tasks on invoices for clients. I got zero push back on invoices as I listed deliverables per item. I'd love to know how everyone else manages this! There are lots of apps Clockify etc for this but this was a free solution & reduced the number of tools which for me was easier.