Creative

Most creative professionals will have worked freelance at some point. Whether you work part time or full time there are a number of benefits to working as a creative freelancer.

Not only can your take home pay be higher but you’ll be able to have more creative control over your work and be your own boss. Working agency or client side can be restricting – endless briefs and boundaries of what you can and can’t creatively put together.

By freelancing, you’ll be able to take on the clients you want. Freelance UK recently highlighted the need for creative freelancers in the SME market; small companies need bespoke work done quickly and will tend to use the same freelancer for a number of jobs. Even better, they won't have specific creative requirements leaving you free to use ideas that may not be considered acceptable in agencies or when working for large mutlinational organisations.

If you would like to become a freelancer you’ll need to be good at striking up conversation and coming up with ideas very quickly. According to FreelanceUK, elite freelancers are those with a “gift for building strategic working relationships with key people at short notice.”

If you’d like to become a creative freelancer, you’ll need to set up as a sole trader and speak to an accountant about the change in how you pay tax.

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If you’d like some advice about setting up as a sole trader or want to know more about Easy Accountancy, Ask us a Question, call 0500 234111 / 01442 275767 or email nikki.hanlon@easyaccountancy.co.uk

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