Here are my tips on how to survive
your freelance pay schedule (which is no schedule at all) and maintain a family budget on irregular income.
Not exact matches
The blog tour coordinator (or the
freelance publicist or online marketing company) only gets
paid for being the liaison between the publishing house and the blogger — for doing the «party planning» that is involved in
scheduling the blog tour.
Since it takes time (and expertise) to
schedule blog tours, publishing companies sometimes feel it is worthwhile to
pay a third party — an online marketing company, a
freelance publicist, a blog tour company, etc. — to set these up.
The second type of person hears about
freelancing and starts dreaming of high
pay and flexible
schedules.
I have Ad revenue that I
pay taxes on as Misc income on a
schedule C. I also do
freelance web development for a hourly rate, and hold a W2 job.
By contrast,
freelance lawyers are business owners who maintain their own offices,
pay their own taxes, arrange for their own insurance and benefits, set their own
schedules and fees, establish their own working conditions and pursue their own professional development.
Plus,
paying a chunk of money all at once — whether it's quarterly or annually — is tough to calculate and a tax professional can help you with both your full - time taxes and
freelance taxes and create a
schedule that works, helping you
pay the correct amount on time.