This week Rachel and Lynne are responding to a question from listener Stephanie about how to make time to work on your freelance business.

It's a bit of a choose-your-own adventure because we have such different work styles and systems.

Rachel uses a mix of a bespoke paper diary (Creator's Friend), Outlook, Google Keep, batching, and Friday "work on the business" time, plus automations in Moxie (forms, pipelines, calendar booking windows, templated replies, and auto-created Google Drive folders).

Lynne has a paper-free setup using Trello, an electronic calendar, "salami tactics" (small daily actions), Marketing Monday, Mail scheduling/follow-ups/reminders, and industry events for networking.

We also discuss invoicing habits, accounting software, setting aside GST/tax/super, and recommend choosing regular business time, one in-person event monthly, and automating two tasks per month. 

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Episode edited by Marker Creative Co www.markercreative.co