Summer Series for Freelancers: Shedding Sweaters and Expenses

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Put those sweaters away!!

Sweaters are great, but even thinking about touching their heavy itchy wool fabric can make you break out into a sweat. Summer is here, and it’s time to shelve both the clothes and expenses that are making you lose your cool.

It’s also a great time to try out new business tools that you haven’t been able to learn and master when you’re buried under work (or sweaters). This way you can optimize your workflow and be more profitable by not throwing money away on useless expenses (or sweaters).

Out with the old, in with the new!

While you are reorganizing where your money is going out, it is also a good time to see where your money is coming in! Invoices tend to get messy very quickly.

• Do you have a good organizational system for your invoices?
• Do you have a stack of old, crumpled & unorganized invoices crowding up a junk drawer?
• Can you quickly see which are paid or awaiting payment?

Do your invoices look as happily organized as this?

Freckle will set you free! By eliminating the need for a paper invoice (though you can still print em if you need to!) you can create and share an invoice with a client by sending a private link or email a copy of the invoice directly to their billing department. You can also identify which invoices are paid or pending at a glance, sans file cabinets and invoice numbers. On top of all of that, the invoice templates are super customizable!

Once your invoices are organized, you should easily be able to tell where you can drop expenses such as clunky applications (or clients in sweaters) and where you need to make improvements! While it may take a while to get organized, the benefits greatly outweigh stewing in a sticky pile of paperwork and unnecessary expenditures.

Go go ahead, strip off that hot sweater and dive into the refreshing and crystal clear pool of summery organization 🙂

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The dog days of summer are here again, but you can keep your cool with The Freckle Time Tracking Summer Series for Freelancers.

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