These last few months have seen me work on numerous site launches, email newsletters and courses for my clients.  I have never been busier. But there’s no denying that starting up is tricky when budgets are particularly tight for clients.

This is a round-up of some recent articles and forthcoming courses that look helpful, whether you’ve chosen to go freelance or are forced to be self-employed (in other words, have been made redundant).

Always full of insight, David Airey, has recently written on:
Becoming a self-employed graphic designer
The design pricing formula

Nick Usborne has written extensively on freelance web writing. Some recent excellent articles and sites from Nick:
New Path to Riches blog
Freelance Writing Success

NMK (New Media Knowledge) run courses on setting up a web business. This one on March 10 looks good:
Drumming up Business – sales tactics for the digital freelancer
And NMK have a case study: Building a Web Business from Scratch
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Freelance Advisor have an excellent free 32-page guide to download: Go Freelance 2010
Freelance Advisor also have a podcast series, February 2010 was on The Challenges of Working from Home.
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If you have any tips then put them in the comments.