Ida Peters

Download our eBook and unlock our 7-step guide to getting paid fast! Have you ever missed a bill payment because your client hasn’t paid up? You sit there helpless, watching the time tick away as you wait for a check to come in the mail. Good news is there’s a solution out there for you. All […] The post A 7-Step Guide to Getting Paid Fast [Free eBook] appeared first on FreshBooks Blog - Resources & Advice for Small Business Owners .

Health insurance and dental coverage aren’t the only benefits available to freelance workers. Discover these five additional protections for freelancers… For many freelancers, health insurance and dental coverage are the holy grail of benefits: life-changing, hard to come by, and periodically provoking the fear that choosing the wrong plan will lead to immediate catastrophe. Happily, […] The post Freelancers Union Guest Post: Security Means More Than Just Health Insurance appeared first on FreshBooks Blog - Resources & Advice for Small Business Owners .

Asking for a deposit is common across many industries, but is it always a good idea? Requesting a deposit is standard practice for many. It makes sense: you protect yourself by minimizing chances of non-payment and have access to working capital for day-to-day operations.. But, is it always the right decision? Are there not instances […] The post Should You Ask for an Upfront Deposit on Work? appeared first on FreshBooks Blog - Resources & Advice for Small Business Owners .

Here’s some mythbusting for some common tax myths. You just got through tax season, but if preparing this year’s taxes didn’t go as smoothly as you would have liked, there’s no time like the present to start thinking about how to better prepare for next year. Creative freelancers tend to hear a lot of tax […] The post Creative Freelancers: 5 Tax Myths You Need to Bust appeared first on FreshBooks Blog - Resources & Advice for Small Business Owners .

Small business owners can be so buried in the day-to-day that they lose sight of where their business stands. That’s where tracking KPIs comes in. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) can keep you on track and let you know whether your efforts are paying off. KPIs will also help you determine if you’re spending too much […] The post Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) You Should Track for Your Small Business appeared first on FreshBooks Blog - Resources & Advice for Small Business Owners .

It might be time to bid adieu to paper checks and snail mail from your clients. When I started freelancing, I didn’t really care how clients paid me. Check, PayPal credit card – I was just happy to have clients who actually paid me. But as my business has grown and I’ve transitioned to working […] The post Tired of Getting Paid by Snail Mail? How I Learned There’s a Better Way appeared first on FreshBooks Blog - Resources & Advice for Small Business Owners .

The money is in the email list—is it time to build a bigger list? That’s the common wisdom among most digital marketers. As the thought goes, your email list is owned property; it’s not subject to algorithm changes or company policy changes, like social media audiences. In addition, it’s usually a bit more intimate and […] The post Hubspot Guest Post: 5 Tactics to Build a Bigger Email List for Your Small Business appeared first on FreshBooks Blog - Resources & Advice for Small Business Owners .

Yes! Your side hustle can be more lucrative than ever by making a few simple changes. Side hustles are a great way to make extra cash on the side and fuel your creative passions. Is it any surprise that they’re on the rise? Often, though, side hustles aren’t seen as a real job which means […] The post Got a Side Hustle? Don’t Make These 5 Money Mistakes appeared first on FreshBooks Blog - Resources & Advice for Small Business Owners .

Joe was experiencing a major problem in QuickBooks Online. He was using PayPal to make online payments to his vendors. However, he didn’t know to link his PayPal account with QBO or how record online payments made with his PayPal account. Joe just didn’t know how PayPal worked, and he was frustrated. If you’re using PayPal and QuickBooks Online then this blog post is for you. I’ll show you how to link PayPal to QuickBooks Online. And then, I’ll show you how to how to enter payments made with PayPal in QuickBooks Online correctly. But first, let’s get a better understanding of how PayPal works. How PayPal Works PayPal facilitates online payments. There are 4 primary ways to use PayPal: Make payments to vendors using a credit card as the primary PayPal account. Make payments to vendors using a checking account as the primary PayPal account. Use PayPal to receive customer payments. Use PayPal to receive customer payments and make payments to vendors. In this blog post, I’ll go