There’s a lot of fun and exciting perks to starting your own business. Bookkeeping is not one of those. New business owners often underestimate the time and stress it takes to just get paid.
Here are some tips for how to make getting paid a little less painful...
It's clear that Forbes and I disagree on what constitutes a celebrity, but it was nice to see both Howard Stern and Dr. Dre may their way into the top 10 this year!
If you talk to a software engineer, they're probably most interested in attacking difficult and interesting problems that affect a lot fo people.
But it's really not surprising that some of the most popular software companies among engineers and developers also pay the best, according to salary data we pulled from GlassDoor.
We've assembled a list of the top tech companies in Silicon Valley that pay their software engineers and developers the best.
These salaries do appear to be entry-level engineers — so there are some senior engineers that make much more. But still, it shows why a lot of people choose the companies they do.
If the people who hired you to design a website have been dodgy and unreliable about payment, here's a little stunt that will shock their wallets and open their checkbooks: scrap the entire site and kindly demand payment on the website's front page. Your payment should come soon after.
Our own Jesus Diaz has admitted to using this tactic on delinquent clients in his former life as a designer and many designers keep this sort of stunt as a last resort method in order to get paid. From what I can tell, Freshbaked UK—the delinquent company in question—is a PR/marketing agency who doesn't appreciate the job of a designer and is in deep doodoo itself. Tsk, tsk guys. I'm sure you guys know where to find your website.
Want to make more money? Well, I’ve got the secret. And I’ll bet it’s not what you think.
It sure wasn’t what I expected when I interviewed hundreds of high earners for my books Secrets of Six-Figure Women and Overcoming Underearning.
Very few of these successful women were driven by money. Yet they still demanded to be well-compensated because—and here’s the Big Secret— they felt they were worth it!!
Good writers should get paid for their work. It’s as simple as that.
If this is what you want to do professionally, then you should be paid for it.
A dirty little secret of this business is that many writers that earn a full-time income by putting pen to paper or fingers to keyboard, aren’t any better than the writers who don’t make a dime.
