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IPSE provides guides, tips, tools and templates for you to use to help run, manage and protect your business. We add to these daily and update them on a regular basis.
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- Video interview
Managing a side-hustle
Our research shows that 320,000 people in the UK have a so-called ‘side hustle’ – a second self-employed job. Ishita Ranjan is one of them. But how does she manage this busy lifestyle?
- Video interview
- Running your business
- Education & Training
- 30 Sep 2019
Managing your time as a freelancer
Freelancing can be a great way to expand your skill set and do what you love. But when you start being your own boss, you also need to learn how to manage your time effectively.
- Video interview
- Starting out
- Running your business
- 30 Jul 2019
Go with the flow: adapting to change as a freelancer
As a freelancer, it's important to stay up-to-date on the latest industry trends and changes and learn how to adapt.
- Video interview
- Starting out
- Running your business
- 1 Jun 2019
Why I chose the self-employed route
Freelance personal assistant and bespoke planner designer Monique Basil-Wright discusses the benefits of freelancing, how she got into it and why she never plans on going back to full-time employment.
- Video interview
- Starting out
- Running your business
- 1 Feb 2019
Flower power and the way to a blooming business
Paper flower entrepreneur Clare Davies talks marketing and making it on your own including how to charge clients, managing cash flow and top tips for freelancers.
- Video interview
- Marketing and Branding
- 17 Dec 2018
Starting out as a young freelancer
Web developer, Liam Charmer shares personal insights into being a young freelancer.
Overcoming challenges
IPSE's Freelancer of the Year 2016, Emmeline Pidgen shares how she overcomes the challenges of freelancing.
- Video interview
- 10 May 2017
Finding your first client
Copywriter Kelly Gilmour-Grassam, director of Making You Content Ltd, explains how she went about securing her first clients.
- Video interview
- 10 May 2017