Welcome to the IPSE Resource Library
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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- Running your business
Average Day Rates Guide
How much do others charge? This guide provides a breakdown of day rates by self-employed role. Once you know what others are charging, you'll be better equipped to set your own rates.
- Download
- Running your business
- 15 Feb 2024
Project Planning Template
This project planning template aims to make it easy for freelancers to plan and manage their projects more effectively through the use of a Gantt chart.
- Tools and Templates
- Running your business
- 23 Jul 2023
Invoice Template
This invoice template includes everything you must have on an invoice. Use this template to clearly display to your clients what they're paying for, how much they owe, and when it needs to be paid by.
IPSE Cashflow template
This cashflow template is designed to help freelancers and self-employed professionals estimate and monitor their business income and expenses over a period of time.
- Tools and Templates
- Running your business
- Personal Finance
- 16 May 2023
Business Plan
Even though it’s just you in your business you should still have a basic business plan. This business plan will help you get into the nitty-gritty of what you need to make your business a success.
- Tools and Templates
- Starting out
- Running your business
- 16 Apr 2023
IPSE guide to setting rates
Many clients expect freelancers to have a fixed daily or hourly rate, but this isn’t the only option. There are lots of ways to design a list of tariffs for your services. This guide will help you prepare a convincing answer.
- Advice
- Running your business
- Marketing and Branding
- 26 Jan 2023
Statement of Work template
A Statement of Work defines what project-specific activities, deliverables and timelines you are agreeing on with your client.
- Tools and Templates
- Running your business
- 31 Aug 2021
Webinar - The CV & LinkedIn Blueprint to More Contracts, at Higher Rates, More Often
Join IPSE and The CV and Interview Advisors for an online workshop to discover your blueprint to help you win more work, more frequently at higher rates.
- Video
- Running your business
- Winning work
- 26 Nov 2019