FreshBooks, the online billing service for freelancers and small business people has gotten a really nice interview on Fox Business News. The interview was with the President and founder Mike McDerment.
I did a review of FreshBooks, which I use to do invoicing and billing for my freelance web design clients.
I can’t tell you how much time it saves me dealing with the money side of this business. Well worth the $9.80/month I pay for my subscription.
Way to go FreshBooks. I really love this company and am glad to see them get some high profile press.
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This is my 1st real test of working freelance remotely (on a trip out of town) with just my Apple Powerbook G4 laptop and a wifi connection.
I am in College Station, TX with my wife, a co-worker of hers and my brother-in-law. They all came for a continuing education 2 day workshop for engineers. I came along just cuz I could and wanted to keep ruthie company. We like to travel together.
Now I have worked remotely before from a hotel room in San Antonio, TX while Ruthie was at a conference there, but I was working full time as an employee of Hitchfinder.com and I pretty much had to be connected to the office so they would see I was actually “on the clock”.
This time I am working for myself, so it will be interesting to see how I fare at self control in keeping myself “on target” in getting some actual work done here on this trip.
I will finish this post tomorrow night and fill you in on how I did over the course of the day.
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Well, I was pretty productive. I finished a comp of a 10-page site for a client for his massage business. It is a re-do of an old site.
I did also play a bit though. I dropped Ruthie and crew back off after lunch at Fatburger (big juicy 2/3 burger) and went to 3 pawn shops looking for items to sell on eBay, but did not find anything.
So I am declaring the day a success.
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On Monday Ruthie, my brother-in-law Jack Antebi and Ruthie’s co-worker, Regaynel Poplion came down to College Station, Texas for a continuing education session that was being put on at A&M University. the Texas Transportation Institute is hosting the sessions and Jack works for them.
I got to come along because “have Apple Powerbook and WiFi – will travel” applies in my business as a freelance web designer.
I just set up my little portable office in the motel and plug away at my work.
We got 2 bonuses on this trip.
1 – We got to have dinner twice with our son David, who attends A&M. his girlfriend Amy even got away from her studies to meet us for one dinner.
2 – Regaynel Poplion happens to be Amber Poplion’s mom. The fact that she was able to come with us means that Amber is doing great and Regaynel can get away for a few days for work. I think she is due to finally leave the rehab facility and go home very soon. She did get to go home for a few hours last week and today is supposed to go the Texas State Fair!
