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Pricing, records, tax and the admin that turns side income into a trade.

  • 9 September 2026 4 min readRunning it

    Keep five things from every job

    The records that matter are small, and the reason to keep them always arrives months after the moment you could have.

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    Build the rate card from your numbers, not the market's

    The point of a rate card is not to publish a price. It is to make every individual pricing conversation already settled.

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What the work pays, before anyone rounds it up.

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