Because the scammers are professionals. And most of us are not. Think about the last time you got a text from a delivery company, an email from your bank, or a phone call from a government agency. Did you stop to wonder - even for a second - whether...
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Blog Posts
You know that frustrating moment. You point your camera at something beautiful — golden light, a laughing kid, a landscape that took your breath away — and the photo comes back dark, blurry, or weirdly washed out. You try again. Still not right. And...
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Most freelancers set their rate by guessing, copying someone else, or charging what they think the market will accept. There's a better way. Ask a freelancer how they settled on their hourly rate and most will give you one of three answers. The...
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For too many freelancers, lodgement day is the day they find out whether they can afford their tax bill. It shouldn't work that way. Every quarter, the same thing happens to a remarkable number of Australian sole traders. The BAS lodgement date...
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Late payments are one of the biggest cash flow killers in freelancing. The fix is less awkward than you think. There is a specific kind of stress that arrives around fourteen days after an invoice was due. You know the payment is late. You know you ...
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Every freelancer has a client like this. Nice to work with. Pays on time. And quietly, consistently, not worth it. There's a particular type of project that feels fine while it's happening and looks wrong in hindsight. The brief was clear - or seeme...
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You invoiced. They paid. Now you're broke. Here's why — and how to fix it. It's one of the best feelings in freelancing: a payment lands in your account. A decent one. You look at the number, feel briefly like a functioning adult, and then — sometim...
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About Me
Tim Bond has been a freelancer, consultant, and business owner for the better part of 40 years. Based in Brisbane, he runs The Ideas Bunker — a communication consultancy with a simple belief: that talented people deserve to be paid properly for what they do. The Freelance Tools Suite is his answer to the gap between what freelancers earn and what they should.