Getting Started: A Freelancer's Survival Guide Short Book

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Everyone says they want to be their own boss, but very few people know how. This book will help you learn how to think properly about owning a business. It gives you guidelines in setting up your office (in or out of the house), setting your schedule, and establishing your priorities. Getting started properly will put your business on the road to success.

Award-winning, bestselling writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch has published books under many names and in many genres. She has owned several businesses, and has worked for herself for more than thirty years.

Other books in this series are:

Getting Started
Goals and Dreams
How To Make Money
How To Negotiate Anything
Networking in Person And Online
Time Management
Turning Setbacks into Opportunity
When to Quit Your Day Job

• Language: English
• Publisher: WMG Publishing
• Release date: Jul 14, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452389127

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes in almost every genre. Generally, she uses her real name (Rusch) for most of her writing. She publishes bestselling science fiction and fantasy, award-winning mysteries, acclaimed mainstream fiction, controversial nonfiction, and the occasional romance. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world and her short fiction has appeared in eighteen best of the year collections. She has won more than twenty-five awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Le Prix Imaginales, the Asimov's Readers Choice award, and the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award.   

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Everyone says they want to be their own boss, but very few people know how. This book will help you learn how to think properly about owning a business. It gives you guidelines for setting up your office (in or out of the house), setting your schedule, and establishing your priorities. Getting started properly will put your business on the road to success.

Getting Started

A Freelancer’s Survival Guide Short Book

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Copyright Information

Copyright © 2012 by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

First published in 2009 in a slightly different version on kristinekathrynrusch.com.

Published by WMG Publishing

Layout and design © copyright 2012 WMG Publishing

Cover art © copyright Madmaxer/Dreamstime

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List of all the

Freelancer’s Survival Guide

Short Books

When to Quit Your Day Job

Getting Started

Turning Setbacks into Opportunity

Goals and Dreams

How to Negotiate Anything

The Secrets of Success

How to Make Money

Networking in Person and Online

Time Management

Getting Started

Table of Contents

Introduction

Job Description

Building Your Workspace

A Freelancer’s Priorities

About the Author

Copyright Information

Introduction

So you want to work for yourself. You’ve quit your day job, or you’re about to. And suddenly, you’re overwhelmed. What do you do next? How do you make it through the day? Where do you work? Are you working? It certainly doesn’t feel like you’re working.

Most of us have never learned how to set our own schedule, or design our own workspace. Most of us have let others set our priorities from the day we were born. We moved from school to job, from our parents to our spouses, without a thought. We do what we’re told or what we should do.

And when we’re on our own, we suddenly don’t know how to behave.

This short book is more about how