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In Germany do I need to file as a business in-order to receive ad revenue?

I run a website as a hobby. I have to pay for hosting, I don’t earn anything with it. I want to include advertisements/affiliate links, so it’s likely that I will earn some money with this website. (Potentially a lot of money.) Does that make me a…
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Should I settle for a percentage or keep with an hourly rate?

I work with an inventor who creates product lines and I do the design work for him. He's an engineer who is picky and wants it exactly his way so usually the projects take a while due to him not explaining what he wants clearly. In the past I have…
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how does hourly system work? How does the client know how many hours we worked?

How does the client get to know how many hours we worked if I work at my place? Even if I am ethical, and don't fake my number of hours, how can I help the client believe it?
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Deciding budget of a project which does not have exact requirements

Let's say there is a project which does not have an exact set of requirements. And then the clients ask for an "tentative" quote. There is no way to decide that, for example, an iPad app for a hotel can be made in a range of $500 - $5000, since it…
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How smart is to disclose minimum hourly wage?

I can see that almost all, if not all, top freelancing service allow you to specify minimum hourly wage. But how really smart is to do that? Should not such price be exclusive and only for special customers or projects? The reason for this…
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Working as a freelancer at an office in the UK

I'd like to start working at an office to limit procrastination and give fresh air to my wife who's a housewife. Among you guys are there some who work in an office outside? How much do you pay?
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Running payroll for self - Provincially Incorporated in Canada

I have recently incorporated (provincially) and providing IT services as an employee of my incorporation. Its been couple of months and I need to run payroll for myself. Am not sure where/how to start. Am new to this incorporation/running payroll…
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What are the pro and cons of working directly with a client versus through a consulting agency?

Never have done any consulting or freelancing work I'm curious what the advantages and disadvantages are. Obviously a consulting company takes a cut on your pay check and may provide some business connections that give your more consulting…
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How to decide the price for an iOS app for freelancer - feature/function basis or complete project or hourly?

I am an iOS Developer. I have just started freelancing and this is my first project for the client. My client is from India and so am I. My client has given a checklist of features to me that he wants in his app. He asked me to decide the time…
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What technologies should I use as a web freelancer?

I would like to be a web freelancer but I'm in doubt because I'm not sure if the services I'm going to offer are even relevant in 2022. I know a lot about building websites using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Django. I would like to start building…
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Is it reasonable for customer to require $1 million liability insurance for $1500 contract?

I had a customer send me a docusign for purchase terms before sending an expected PO. One of the terms was that I would agree to purchase $1 million of general liability insurance and name them as additional beneficiary. Is this reasonable for a…
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Freelancer charging for debugging

I hired a WordPress developer to help with some customizations. We agreed on a fixed contract amount with fixed hours. When the developer delivered the product, there were several major problems with it (all within the scope). She spent several more…
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Is it possible to market myself if I dont want to reveal my real ID online?

I am a private person and don't like to add private info online. You can call me old school but I don't have any social media account or any other online account under my real ID. Is it possible to start freelancing full time with this situation? Of…
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Create project from approved estimate with task budgets?

I keep bumping my head against this freelancer/contractor workflow issue. I'd like to be able to create a project from an approved estimate with a click or workflow or zap, along with the amount estimated for each task (or service). All of the…
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Ex-employer wants to hire me after I send him a design

An employee from a very old employer contacted me to design a dashboard for them as a freelance when asked for payment he said: "If I can send them the design then we can talk about price". This is something new to me. I am not confident if I should…
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