I posted a sample Excel spreadhseet in the forum. This is the skeleton of the actual Excel book I use to manage my freelance writing business (set up by my accountant husband). It has tabs to track customers, pitches, time spent, expenses and income. I hope the formulas have migrated,...

“No one I know has a job anymore. They've got Gigs...a bunch of free-floating projects, consultancies, and part-time bits and pieces they try and stitch together,” states blogger Tina Brown. In a recent poll, she found that one-third of respondents were working either freelance or in two jobs. While working...

If you're not familiar with Twitter, it's a social networking and microblogging (posting snippets of text) service. Twitter is open ended and people and companies use it to connect in a variety of ways, including to job search and to recruit. Twitter is a quick and simple way to...