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Whether it’s a short-term fix or a long-term way to address your desire to work on your own, freelancing can offer great career and financial satisfaction.
Freelancing has come into growing favor as the economy keeps shifting more toward services, as corporations have sought to keep their own payrolls lean, and as up-and-coming small businesses have embraced outsourcing. More and more creative, professional and technical fields are now open to freelancing. Information technology makes freelancing more feasible than ever. And even the federal tax code has been giving freelancers more breaks lately.
If you do things right as a freelancer, you can enjoy many of the freedoms and rewards of being a solo entrepreneur without having to take the step of growing your company and creating jobs beyond your own position.
But there are challenges and risks aplenty in freelancing, some of which only become apparent once you’ve made the leap. Here are five tips for creating a successful freelancing business.
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